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Sound Recordings, Wiltshire

Archive Item: LAVC/SRE/A796r

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Type of record: Archive

Title: Sound Recordings, Wiltshire

Level: Item

Classmark: LAVC/SRE/A796r

Creator(s): Wright, John T; Kylstra, Henk E; Orton, Harold (1898-1975)

Site Location(s): Subject - Ashton Keynes, Wiltshire, England, United Kingdom( 51.6452, -1.93232 ); Subject - Netheravon, Wiltshire, England, United Kingdom( 51.2361, -1.79083 )

Date(s): 1960

Size and medium: 1 x 12.7cm open reel spool; Duration: 73' 08".

Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/414847

Collection group(s): Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture

Description

Mr. Hitchcock, recorded in Netheravon; talks about his parents; Ernest Kent; the pronunciation of the words gate and post [Orton questions]; ploughing; the pronunciation of the word horses; Orton questions re. yoking horses; greetings; the words for ground/dirt, animals - mice, vole, rat, mole; Kylstra questions re. roof eaves; the words door and key; curing bacon; parts of a pig; chapped hands; bullocks for ploughing; cart shafts and wheels; parts of wooden plough; parts of a scythe; describes a flail for threshing; corn; peas and beans; grass cutting - hay cocks, ricks, rick-making; brick/stone laying; domestic lighting. [Tr. 3]


Ernest Packer, recorded in Ashton Keynes; [first thirty seconds inaudible]; pronunciation of words for shoes and boots; talks about his father's job as a stonemason; Mr. Packer's first farm job as the age of nine and a half; talk of gateposts; crops; mowing grass with horses; cutting corn by hand, tying sheaves, stooks, by waggon to rick; thatching a rick; scythes; father mowing by hand; Bible classes; local Reading Room; molecatching; vegetables; apple nogging (scrumping); fox and hounds (childhood game); whip and top; ploughing - describes setting a field; using a wooden plough, with no horses; sowing seeds; attaching a horse to a plough; pig killing and dressing, curing and salting; bad bacon; gates and parts of. [Tr. 4]. Continues on tape LAVC/SRE/A797r.

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