Sound Recordings, Isle of Wight, Wiltshire and Berkshire
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Type of record: Archive
Title: Sound Recordings, Isle of Wight, Wiltshire and Berkshire
Classmark: LAVC/SRE/A798r
Creator(s): Kylstra, Henk E; Barry, Michael V (1935-)
Site Location(s): Subject - Avebury, Wiltshire, England, United Kingdom( 51.4167, -1.86667 ); Subject - Burbage, Vale of Pewsey, Wiltshire, England, United Kingdom( 51.3549, -1.66611 ); Subject - Uffington, Oxfordshire, England, United Kingdom( 51.6025, -1.55997 ); Subject - Whitwell, Niton, Isle of Wight, England, United Kingdom( 50.5984, -1.2642 )
Date(s): 1959-1960
Size and medium: 1 x 12.7cm open reel spool; Duration: 100' 07".
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/414849
Collection group(s): Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture
Description
[Collector announcement]; Mr. M. Sheath, recorded in Whitwell (Isle of Wight) in April 1959, by Henk Kylstra; talks about the uses for farm waggons and carts; the decline in the use of horses; ploughing technique; sowing by hand; threshing; binding and reaping; sheaves; rick building and thatching; the village fair in August (tea and sports). [Tr. 2]
[Collector announcement]; Mrs. M. Sheath, recorded in Whitwell (Isle of Wight) in April 1959, by Henk Kylstra; talks about the village and its buildings; her father; the Queen Elizabeth [2] (ship); navvies and the building of a railway. [Tr. 3]
[Collector announcement]; James Shipway, recorded in Avebury (Wiltshire) in April 1959, by Michael Barry; talks about Avebury stone circle and archaeological excavations [?pre-World War Two]; identifying holes, raising stones, the Avenue and the Sanctuary; [collector announcement]; the National Trust and the renovation of a barn in the village [now the Great Barn]; ploughing with oxen; reaping by hand and tying sheaves; thrashing corn with frails; agricultural wages; drink - beer brewed at ?East Kennett/?West Kennett; children's games (inc. fox and hounds); the Red Lion pub; local Clubs (Days) - bands, parade, dinner, dancing; racing on push bikes; excavations at Silbury Hill; children's (chasing) games, including Click Clack and Prisoner's Base. [Tr. 4]
[Collector announcement]; Mr. G. E. Bailey, recorded in Uffington (Berkshire) in May 1959, by Michael Barry; talks about farm jobs and wages; the Army; farm work with cows and horses; thoughts on farming and animal husbandry; cattle cake feed; farm labouring and wages; ploughing and sowing; [collector announcement]; selling a cow; feeding cows; modern farming methods; Army service in India (1915) - teaching cadets with a wooden artillery gun; rick building and thatching. [Tr. 5]
An unidentified male [?recorded in Sussex] talks about a crystal set (radio); a two-valve (radio) set; John Logie Baird experimenting with television in Hastings during the period 1929-1933; the informant describes a visit to Hastings to see Baird's televised images. [Tr. 6]
An unidentified female, [?possibly recorded in Kent], recollects seeing soldiers returning from the Crimea, circa 1856, as a child in Goudhurst; meeting soldiers during World War One; talks of her parents; catching/poaching a pheasant. A male interviewer and possibly the informant's son and daughter are present. [Tr. 7]
[Collector announcement]; George Maynard, recorded in Burbage in August 1960, by Henk Kylstra; talks about rick building and thatching; ploughing; pig farming and killing; rabbiting; the cost of living; local brewers; schooling and corporal punishment; farm work, wages and hours of work (informant started at the age of nine); winter work (dung and silo carting). [Tr. 8]
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Physical and technical conditions
9.5cm/sec. High recording levels. Microphone/electrical interference affects Isle of Wight, Avebury and Uffington recordings.
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