Sound Recordings, Wiltshire
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Type of record: Archive
Title: Sound Recordings, Wiltshire
Classmark: LAVC/SRE/A800r
Creator(s): Wright, John T; Kylstra, Henk E; Orton, Harold (1898-1975)
Site Location(s): Subject - Avebury, Wiltshire, England, United Kingdom( 51.4167, -1.86667 ); Subject - Steeple Ashton, Wiltshire, England, United Kingdom( 51.3103, -2.13538 )
Date(s): 1960
Size and medium: 1 x 12.7cm open reel spool; Duration: 103' 16".
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/414851
Collection group(s): Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture
Description
James Shipway, recorded in Avebury; talks about thatching; the loss of tradespeople in the village; reference to the renovation of a barn in the village [by the National Trust, now the Great Barn]; tractors; cattle; ploughing with bullocks; method of using a wooden plough; attaching oxen to a plough, cart; pubs; agricultural wages; crops grown; corn harvesting; scythe parts described; beer - supply and cost; hay/straw ricks (built on ? stones); corn ricks built on straw; water meadows; pig killing; bacon curing; names for parts of pig; lard; pig names. [Tr. 4]
Fred Blake, recorded in Avebury; gives terms for pigs, offal and scraps [wife contributes]; beer (barrels/casks); grain grown, inc. beans/peas (collectively corn); horse feed; grass mowing with a scythe; field names; water meadows; cow sheds; sheep names; pig names; horse names; waggons and carts. [Tr. 5]
Mr. Blake continues with a description of his job as a carter; discusses other job roles; stone wall building, stone names; gate (posts) - names the parts, inc. fastenings; the housing and feeding of pigs and horses; cow stalls, cow shed, manure; implements (brushes, besoms); thatching terms (for barns); thatched corn stacks/rocks; corn crops grown; furrows. [Tr. 1]
Herbert Watts, recorded in Steeple Ashton; talks about the parts of a farm cart; field names (paddock, water meades/meadows); scythes; grass cutting and hay storage; names for horses when pulling waggons, ploughing; ploughing with three horses; commands to horses; reins, harness, collar, attachments; plough parts; gate fastenings and posts; hedging implements; scythe sharpening. [Tr. 2]
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