Sound Recordings, Essex
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Type of record: Archive
Title: Sound Recordings, Essex
Classmark: LAVC/SRE/A788r
Creator(s): Berntsen, Howard N
Site Location(s): Subject - Belchamp Walter, Braintree, Essex, England, United Kingdom( 52.0326, 0.65002 ); Subject - West Bergholt, Colchester, Essex, England, United Kingdom( 51.9122, 0.84986 )
Date(s): 1961
Size and medium: 1 x 17.8cm open reel spool; Duration: 43' 28".
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/414839
Collection group(s): Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture
Description
Mr. R. O. Allston, recorded in West Bergholt; talks about the growth of the village; serving with the Essex Regiment (and also the Hampshire Regiment) during World War One; his father's work in a local flour mill; describes flour, middlin's and bran - products of corn grinding; the village brewery; local farm employers; the decline in agricultural employment; sheep; crops grown; storing mangel-wurzles and swedes; chopping out/singling beet; farm horses; groom gardeners; fox hunting. [Tr. 6]
James Pearson, recorded in Belchamp Walter; describes his job as a stockman on a farm; describes other farm jobs, including harvesting; describes the process of thatching (haystacks); seed drilling; talks about his house and garden. [Tr. 1]
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