Sound Recordings, Wiltshire and Hampshire
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Type of record: Archive
Title: Sound Recordings, Wiltshire and Hampshire
Classmark: LAVC/SRE/A799r
Creator(s): Kylstra, Henk E
Site Location(s): Subject - Burley, Hampshire, England, United Kingdom( 50.828, -1.69977 ); Subject - Whiteparish, Wiltshire, England, United Kingdom( 51.0104, -1.64855 ); Subject - King's Somborne, Test Valley, Hampshire, England, United Kingdom( 51.0667, -1.4833 )
Date(s): 1961
Size and medium: 1 x 12.7cm open reel spool; Duration: 79' 25".
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/414850
Collection group(s): Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture
Description
Mr. G. Shaw, recorded at home in Whiteparish; talks about domestic lighting; thatching (hay ricks, cottages); roods (measurement of length); walls for dwellings and materials used; mowing with a scythe; corn harvesting; pig keeping, killing and smoking; modern bacon and ham; thatching tools and their uses; sheep - names, lambing, docking, shearing. [Tr. 1]
Mr. Tucker, recorded in Burley; sings a fragment of an unidentified song; describes a piece of equipment (and its construction) used for killing squirrels and rabbits, in use throughout the New Forest; talk of red and grey squirrels; the village and its school; farm work with livestock; wages; pig killing and bacon curing; local livestock fairs and markets; mowing with a scythe.
Mr. Tucker continues with talk of using a scythe [mostly the collector speaking], and the tools used in thatching a roof. [Tr. 2]
Leonard Morgan, recorded in King's Somborne in April 1961; talks about dialect in other places [?Burley in Dorset] ; work as a butcher; butchering animals; meat supply during war time; delivering meat with horse and cart; making lard; lack of waste in dead pigs; names for sheep, pigs and cattle; horse-raking hay; scythes and other crop-cutting tools; school and schoolmaster; corporal punishment; whipping tops; working with father on leaving school; crop names; thatching (terms, tools); beans and peas; local speech - various terms, elicited through questions from the Dieth-Orton dialect Questionnaire; [drop out - speech inaudible]; curing bacon and ham; cider and cider presses; bakers, loaves, yeast and barm. [Tr.3]
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