Sound Recordings, Wiltshire
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Type of record: Archive
Title: Sound Recordings, Wiltshire
Classmark: LAVC/SRE/A792r
Creator(s): Kylstra, Henk E
Site Location(s): Subject - Fovant, Wiltshire, England, United Kingdom( 51.0559, -1.9921 ); Subject - Sutton Veny, Wiltshire, England, United Kingdom( 51.1782, -2.14987 )
Date(s): 1961
Size and medium: 1 x 12.7cm open reel spool; Duration: 78' 34".
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/414843
Collection group(s): Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture
Description
Francis Foyle and Edward Scammell, recorded in Fovant; talk about farm implements (forks/prongs); fruit and vegetable growing for market; informants' places of birth; corn, barley and other crop growing; cider making (home); types of cider press; decline in home cider making, and the role of the breweries; reaping corn - tools, methods; haymaking; harvesting with horses and binder; threshing by hand; building corn/hay ricks, and thatching; Wiltshire accent; carting with horses; Wiltshire phrases (examples); farm tools/equipment; pronunciation of the words toes and loading; calls to horses; pig killing; making lard.
Interview continues with the pronunciation of the words boil and boy; hanging bacon; sheep names and sheep farming in the area; pig and sheep names; wool; animal diseases and cleanliness. [Tr. 5]
Oliver Lines, recorded in Sutton Veny; talks about his work as a baker; grandparents baking from 1850; baking at home; ovens fuelled by faggots; father supplying parish bread (poor relief); cottage loaves; bread deliveries; using barm instead of yeast; switching to coal ovens (pre-World War One); German yeast; dough; family baking business since 1850; father's carrying service, with cart/waggon; father's cows and village milk supply; father's wages; baker's wages; pig killing in winter; grandmother's method of cooking offal; collection of pigs' innards from Harris' bacon factory in Calne, for sale in the family shop; curing bacon, drying hams; prices of hams and meat products sold in the shop; [collector talks re. terminology relating to ricks]; pig names; horse harnesses; informant's dairy farm; sings and plays piano [title: ?Pickety Pudding]. [Tr. 6]
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