Sound Recordings, Essex and Suffolk
Details
Type of record: Archive
Title: Sound Recordings, Essex and Suffolk
Classmark: LAVC/SRE/A786r
Creator(s): Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)
Site Location(s): Subject - Kersey, Babergh, Suffolk, England, United Kingdom( 52.0585, 0.91757 ); Subject - Stisted, Braintree, Essex, England, United Kingdom( 51.892, 0.61459 )
Date(s): July 1959
Size and medium: 1 x 17.8cm open reel spool; Duration: 43' 12".
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/414837
Collection group(s): Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture
Description
William Sibley, recorded in Stisted; talks about his time as a bellringer; farm work as a boy, trimming thatch, stock boy; wages and working days; work with horses and steam plough; work on the farm as a scythe machine engine driver; sale of farm horses and his work driving tractors; ploughing with horses; horse commands; fallow land and grazing sheep; crops grown locally; harvest and transporting wheat with horse and cart to mill; manual nature of farm work; farm mechanisation; beer drinking whilst at work; brewing own beer; work in local maltings; home-made wines; [collector announcement]. [Tr. 3]
Bert Jarvis, recorded in Kersey; talks about increases in road traffic; threshing machines; flails; dibbing corn; seed drills; harvesting by hand - drying, stacking corn; haymaking with a scythe; horse breaking and selling; village blacksmiths; working days, wages; family size; living in Kersey; farm employment - extra men during harvest; tradesmen in the village - harness maker, wheelwright, blacksmith; the farmer and his employees; loss of men to the Boer War; hedging and ditching, and related terminology; laying a fence; [collector announcement]. [Tr. 4]
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