Sound Recordings, Lincolnshire and Suffolk
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Type of record: Archive
Title: Sound Recordings, Lincolnshire and Suffolk
Classmark: LAVC/SRE/A782r
Creator(s): Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)
Site Location(s): Subject - Wragby, Lincolnshire, England, United Kingdom( 53.2833, -0.3 ); Subject - Yoxford, Suffolk Coastal, Suffolk, England, United Kingdom( 52.2682, 1.50681 )
Date(s): 1959-1960
Size and medium: 1 x 17.8cm open reel spool; Duration: 38' 54".
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/414833
Collection group(s): Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture
Description
William Brothwell and Florence Greenwood, recorded in Wragby in April 1960; talk about foxes and shooting them; Mr. Brothwell's farming career; setting a field for ploughing; livestock; thatching and stacking; animal husbandry; calving; working for his father; hiring farm labour at Lincoln and Market Rasen, and the wearing of certain items to denote which job was wanted (e.g. a black cloth cap); thoughts on growing sugar beet; discuss the tape recording; jobs for farm lads; farm horses; the weather; the winter of 1947; pig rearing. [Tr. 4]
Frank Lovatt, recorded in Yoxford in July 1959; talks about harvest time; cutting corn by hand, followed by a man binding; difficulties when the crop is laying; machinery and the time taken to harvest; labour shortage; wages as a young man; hours worked and wages during harvest time; first job on leaving school. [Tr. 5]
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9.5cm/sec. [first part of Wragby recording]; 19cm/sec.
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