Sound Recordings, Berkshire, Surrey, Essex and West Sussex

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[Collector announcement]; Charles Allen, recorded in West Ilsley; talks about ploughing with horses; ploughing with tractors; compares past and present; describes a working day on the farm; the village past and present; village recreation; harvesting; threshing; stack building; compares past and present farming methods; decline in agricultural employment; decline in sheep farming in the area; cowsheds and milking; training of race-horses locally. [Tr. 4]


[Collector announcement]; Horace Longley, recorded in Outwood in September 1959; compares past and present farming methods; farm machinery; farm horses; use of fertilizers; condition of the fields; local (wind)mills; uncle a wheelwright, farmer and waggon maker; ploughs and ploughing with horses; building a rick; haymaking; the stacker and his job; the decline of stack-building. [Tr. 5]


[Collector announcement]; Alfred Norman, recorded in East Clandon in October 1959; talks about building and thatching a haystack; harvesting machines - reaper, self-deliverer/binder; harvesting and women's role in tying sheaves/stooking; ploughing with horses; harrowing and drilling; working day on the farm; wages and jobs undertaken; rise in wages from 1914 onwards; size of farm worked on; modern farming methods; decline of farm estate the informant worked on. [Tr. 6]


[Collector announcement]; Harry Humphries, recorded in Little Baddow in September 1959; talks about work on a farm as a child (houseboy at the age of thirteen); the working day; jobs and wages; building haystacks; beater for pheasants; price of beer; waggons and carts; reaper machine and driving horses; plough and ploughing with horses; harvest time - beer and meals (known as beaver); changes in the working days and meals; changes in the village - new houses and disrepair of old buildings. [Tr. 7]


[Collector announcement]; Mr. W. Dunton, recorded in Little Bentley in October 1959; talks about starting work as a stockboy at the age of fourteen; hours and wages; stacking and carting; Scotch carts; describes making and thatching a stack; transport and the roads in the past; village life; childhood pranks and practical jokes; old and modern farming methods compared. [Tr. 1]


[Collector announcement]; Frank Cox, recorded in Warnham in November 1959; talks about working days on the farm from the age of thirteen; the farm dairy; farm waggons and carts; corn harvesting; thatching stacks/ricks; building a rick; past and present farming methods; leading - collecting loose corn after the harvest (compare gleaning), and making bread with it; ploughing with horses; drilling and harrowing; hedge laying; showing livestock; changes in farming and the village. [Tr. 2]

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Related material

The gramophone disc recordings of speakers from Outwood, East Clandon and Warnham, copied from Barry's original fieldwork sound recordings, were three of sixteen copy discs submitted with his M.A. thesis (Leeds, 1960), 'Studies in the Linguistic Geography of Kent, Surrey and Sussex' ( LAVC/SRP/1/118).


Ms. list of informants and locations held in file LAVC/SRE/ARI/059.

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