Sound Recording, Essex
Details
Type of record: Archive
Title: Sound Recording, Essex
Classmark: LAVC/SRE/A787r
Creator(s): Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)
Site Location(s): Subject - Great Chesterford, Uttlesford, Essex, England, United Kingdom( 52.0643, 0.1972 )
Date(s): [June 1958]
Size and medium: 1 x 17.8cm open reel spool; Duration: 19' 37".
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/414838
Collection group(s): Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture
Description
Stacey George Dyer, recorded in Great Chesterford; talks about his grandfather and his work as a farm labourer; names for men mowing, depending on their position in the team; harvesting machinery; binding harvested crops by hand; drying harvest; haystacks and fires; father's horse racing; the local Hunt; changes in farming (less arable, more sheep); old farm sizes; agricultural labourers, migrant workers and the effect of World War One; the village community and the loss of greens/commons and houses; local people; the working day in the fields, with horses; horsekeeper's work; first farm jobs on leaving school aged eleven.
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Physical and technical conditions
19cm/sec.
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