Sound Recordings, Hertfordshire and Cambridgeshire
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Type of record: Archive
Title: Sound Recordings, Hertfordshire and Cambridgeshire
Classmark: LAVC/SRE/A783r
Creator(s): Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)
Site Location(s): Subject - Little Downham, Cambridgeshire, England, United Kingdom( 52.4312, 0.24015 ); Subject - Therfield, North Hertford, Hertfordshire, England, United Kingdom( 52.0164, -0.0533 )
Date(s): [1950s]
Size and medium: 1 x 17.8cm open reel spool; Duration: 30' 52".
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/414834
Collection group(s): Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture
Description
Male informant, recorded in Therfield; talks about ploughing with horses; the self-binder; horse-driven threshing machine; storing corn, and selling at [?Royston] Corn Exchange; taking wheat to mill for grinding; livestock; pig killing and bacon curing (smoking in chimney mother's technique); harvest time - working day, beer, food, snacks; farm wages; blacksmith's work; working day with horses; carting corn; ploughing with horses; hedge laying. [Tr. 6]
Thomas Heaps, recorded in Little Downham; talks about drinking water and ill health; high tides, flooding and the strengthening of river banks; The Wash and flooding; past winters and skating on the river/washes; skating matches and prizes; severe winters and affect on farm work; skates and champion skaters at Littleport. [Tr. 7]
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