Sound Recordings, Cornwall
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Type of record: Archive
Title: Sound Recordings, Cornwall
Classmark: LAVC/SRE/A803r
Creator(s): Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009); Wakelin, Martyn F
Site Location(s): Subject - Egloshayle, Cornwall, England, United Kingdom( 50.514, -4.82473 ); Subject - Altarnun, Cornwall, England, United Kingdom( 50.6046, -4.51224 )
Date(s): 29 March 1963
Size and medium: 1 x 17.8cm open reel spool; Duration: 57' 40".
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/414854
Collection group(s): Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture
Description
Thomas Stephens, recorded at home in Altarnun; answers a selection of questions, put by Martyn Wakelin, from the Dieth-Orton dialect survey questionnaire; talks with Stanley Ellis about his first job; farm work before and after leaving school; his own farm - crops grown, stock; farm horses; describes hedge laying/repairing; condition of and repairs to local roads; agricultural labour and mechanisation; [gap, 1 minute]; sheep rearing; lambing and the price of lambs; lamb fair at Five Lanes in July; names for sheep/lambs according to their age; castration; tail cutting; shearing; hours of work; farm subsidies. [Tr. 1]
[Collector announcement]; William Rickards, recorded in Egloshayle; talks about the current year's bad weather; Stanley Ellis asks a number of questions from the Dieth-Orton dialect survey questionnaire; talk of farm work from the age of eleven; leaving school at fifteen; job as a flour miller in Sladesbridge; joining the Army in 1914 - based on Salisbury Plain; personal health; quarry work; anecdotes re. a local man and practical jokes played on him by the informant; milling after the war (provender, not flour); personal health; weatherlore - birds nesting high as a sign of a dry summer; small white clouds (messengers in the sky), sign of wind; red sky (at night/in the morning); describes the techniques for stone and turf hedging, and the difference between the two types of hedge; rabbiting with dogs and nets. [Tr. 2]
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