Sound Recordings, Essex and West Yorkshire
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Type of record: Archive
Title: Sound Recordings, Essex and West Yorkshire
Classmark: LAVC/SRE/A768r
Creator(s): Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)
Site Location(s): Subject - Leeds, West Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom( 53.7965, -1.54785 ); Subject - Henham, Uttlesford, Essex, England, United Kingdom( 51.9335, 0.24796 )
Date(s): [1960s]
Size and medium: 1 x 17.8cm open reel spool; Duration: 63' 55".
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/414819
Collection group(s): Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture
Description
Martin Baynes, recorded in Henham (Essex); talks about his working life; jobs on leaving school, scaring birds, riding the chain horse at harvest time; working with horses from the age of 14/15; working day (winter); winter horseshoes; transporting goods/crops with horses; wheat growing and yields; working with/caring for horses; farming, pre-mechanisation - harvesting, mowing barley with scythes, threshing with flails; changes in farming (employment) and the village; rural depopulation; horse commands; horse breaking; horse breeding and breeds (Shire, Suffolk); ploughing with horses. [Tr. 10]
Male informant [? Mr. Catel], recorded in Leeds [date unknown]; talks about having electric lighting for the first time; his dog; changes in the city; local councillors; working-class housing; council flats and families leaving old houses; foundry work; shop stewarding and trade unionism in foundry and other local foundries; negotiating working hours, conditions and pay post-World War One; negotiating bonuses [incomplete - tape ends]. [Tr. 11]
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19cm/sec. [start of Leeds interview at 9.5cm/sec.]
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