Sound Recordings, Cambridgeshire and Essex
Details
Type of record: Archive
Title: Sound Recordings, Cambridgeshire and Essex
Classmark: LAVC/SRE/A784r
Creator(s): Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)
Site Location(s): Subject - Doddinghurst, Brentwood, Essex, England, United Kingdom( 51.6629, 0.30084 ); Subject - Comberton, Cambridgeshire, England, United Kingdom( 52.1871, 0.01905 )
Date(s): [1961]
Size and medium: 1 x 17.8cm open reel spool; Duration: 48' 34".
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/414835
Collection group(s): Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture
Description
Male informant, recorded in Comberton; talks about working on a farm from the age of eleven; his father and his farming; thatchers in the family; informant learning to thatch; describes a day's work; preparation of new thatch; describes technique for laying thatch; life of a good thatch; birds as pests; thatching tools; reed thatching; changes in the village and the disappearance of thatched houses; benefits of a thatched roof; rural depopulation; disappearance of haystacks; mowing fields with scythes; women tying corn; shocking oats, drying out and ripening; threshing with a flail; winters; number of men employed on a typical farm; Suffolk horses; travelling stallions. [Tr. 8]
Herbert Metson, recorded in Doddinghurst; talks about his father's farm; stallions; threshing corn with a flail; horse breeding, breaking and selling; ploughing with horses; measuring widths for drilling/ploughing; number of horses used and their positions; ridging (for potato growing); commands to horses; agricultural employment; farm cottages; changes in the village, roads and traffic; maintenance of carts; changes in farming - more dairy herds; tractors; [informant states name, address and age]. [Tr. 1]
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