Sound Recordings, Somerset and Devon
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Type of record: Archive
Title: Sound Recordings, Somerset and Devon
Classmark: LAVC/SRE/A791r
Creator(s): Wakelin, Martyn F
Site Location(s): Subject - Blackawton, Devon, England, United Kingdom( 50.3469, -3.67907 ); Subject - Brompton Regis, Somerset, England, United Kingdom( 51.0726, -3.49706 )
Date(s): 1964
Size and medium: 1 x 10cm open reel spool; Duration: 49' 04".
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/414842
Collection group(s): Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture
Description
Mr. H. Evett , recorded in Brompton Regis; talks about farm work; time started each day; working with horses; hours of work and wages; tools for hedging; also present is a Mr. A. Gibbs, who talks about starting work at the age of eleven, driving horses; lambing; Mr. Evett on hedge laying technique; Mr. Gibbs on ploughing with horses; acres/miles walked; mowing grass with scythes (describes the scythe parts and gives names); changes in the village and farming practices; holidays on New Year's Day and Old Christmas Day (January 6th); fairs; hunting; thatching; rope making; tending bullocks; sheep shearing; working for Somerset County Council, road mending (Mr. Evett); Mr. Gibbs talks about sheep marks; cider making/drinking; the village's pubs. [Tr. 3]
Ernest Bowhay, recorded in Blackawton; describes a working day on the farm; hoeing mangel-wurzles; harvesting hay in June; dung carting; lambing; ploughing with horses; horse breaking; milking as a boy aged twelve; old ploughs; tractors; hours of work; drinking; changes in the village; football; social dances; Blackawton (agricultural) Show in June; working at Christmas; hedging and hedging tools; agricultural labourers' pay; ploughing; milking by hand. [Tr. 4]
Provenance
Possibly a copy tape. Tape box reads Copied S[tanley]E[llis] 1/[19]65. Or this could mean that a copy has been taken from this the original recording.
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Physical and technical conditions
9.5cm/sec. High recording levels. Adjusted on AC copy.
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