Sound Recordings, Wiltshire and Hampshire
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Type of record: Archive
Title: Sound Recordings, Wiltshire and Hampshire
Classmark: LAVC/SRE/A795r
Creator(s): Wright, John T; Kylstra, Henk E
Site Location(s): Subject - Ashton Keynes, Wiltshire, England, United Kingdom( 51.6452, -1.93232 ); Subject - Burbage, Vale of Pewsey, Wiltshire, England, United Kingdom( 51.3549, -1.66611 ); Subject - Oakley, Hampshire, England, United Kingdom( 51.25, -1.18841 ); Subject - Sutton Benger, Wiltshire, England, United Kingdom( 51.5069, -2.08015 ); Subject - Hatherden, Hampshire, England, United Kingdom( 51.2513, -1.50792 ); Subject - King's Somborne, Test Valley, Hampshire, England, United Kingdom( 51.0667, -1.4833 )
Date(s): 1957-1961
Size and medium: 1 x 12.7cm open reel spool; Duration: 68' 31".
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/414846
Collection group(s): Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture
Description
[Announcement by Henk Kylstra]; Ernest Packer, recorded in Ashton Keynes in July 1957, by John Wright; talks about work with horses and waggon, on leaving school aged eleven; agricultural wages; ploughing with horses, compared with use of tractor; haymaking; childhood pranks; local vicar and school discipline; working with cattle. [Tr. 6]
[Announcement by Henk Kylstra]; William Tyler, recorded in Sutton Benger by John Wright and Henk Kylstra on the 6 August 1960; talks about school, the headmaster and punishments; Mr. Tyler's father; corn cutting; changes in the village; local men's club; Revels [Feast/Fair]; quoit playing; cider making; ploughing with horses; harvesting; hours of work; thoughts on past and present - cost of living, life, work; pastimes; race horse stables. [Tr. 7].
[Announcement by Henk Kylstra]; William Orchard, recorded in Sutton Benger by John Wright and Henk Kylstra on the 6 August 1960; talks about schooling; bird scaring as a boy; his father; job of cowman; milking; more thoughts on life in the past; rabbiting; food; fatting pigs; pig killing; example of blason populaire - unidentified [?local] village where the inhabitants buried a donkey upside down so they could shine its shoes; working hours and wages; winter work on the farm; thatching. [Tr. 8]
[Announcement by Henk Kylstra]; Charles Dudman, recorded by John Wright in Hatherden in January 1958; completes a story about a local man [?Billy Scace]; and talks about pheasant keeping. The start of this interview is on Track Two of the tape. The two recordings have been edited together in the correct order on AC357 [Tr. 2]
[Collector announcement]; George Maynard, recorded in Burbage in August 1960 by Henk Kylstra; talks about a pork butcher from Pewsey; pig killing; rabbiting; changes in the village; cost of beer and cigarettes; schooling; farm work and wages. [Tr. 9]
[Collector announcement]; Leonard Morgan, recorded in King's Somborne in April 1961 by Henk Kylstra; talks about [?Burley] dialect; father's butcher's shop; butchering animals; lack of waste in dead pigs; names for sheep and pigs; education, schoolmaster and punishments; making meat deliveries with a pony and cart; names/terminology relating to crops/vegetables. [Tr. 10]
[Collector announcement]; George Smith, recorded in Oakley in April 1961by Henk Kylstra; talks about pigs and parts used for food [wife contributes]; wages and the cost of living; thoughts on the old days; thatching ricks; the cost of thatching cottage roofs; thoughts on the decline in the supply of agricultural labour; schooling; ferrets [wife contributes]. [Tr. 1]
[Announcement by Henk Kylstra]; Charles Dudman, recorded by John Wright in Hatherden in January 1958; talks about his work shepherding after leaving school (hurdles, feeding); work as a garden boy at Clanville Lodge; humorous anecdote re. a visit to [?Great] Bedwyn, and the start of another concerning a local man, Billy ?Scace. [Tr. 2]. The conclusion of this recording is on Track One of the original tape. The two sections have been edited together in the correct order on AC357 [Tr. 2]
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9.5cm/sec. High recording levels. Much distortion.
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