Sound Recordings, Berkshire
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Type of record: Archive
Title: Sound Recordings, Berkshire
Classmark: LAVC/SRE/A805r
Creator(s): Barry, Michael V (1935-)
Site Location(s): Subject - Inkpen, Berkshire, England, United Kingdom( 51.38, -1.46198 ); Subject - Swallowfield, Wokingham, Berkshire, England, United Kingdom( 51.3771, -0.94792 )
Date(s): March 1959
Size and medium: 1 x 12.7cm open reel spool; Duration: 37' 38".
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/414856
Collection group(s): Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture
Description
[Collector announcement]; Mr. Stiff, recorded in Swallowfield; makes reference to working at the residence of the Duke of Wellington, at Farley Hill; talks of his interest in the kitchen there and its cooking implements; comments on the residence's owners; informant's biographical details; corn reaping (with help from people from Tadley); sleeping in shocks; carting, storage and thrashing; father's agricultural work; [playback speed changes from 4.8cm/sec to 9.5cm/sec]; ploughing with horses; raking with a chain harrow; working on the Russell family estate. [Tr. 1]
[Collector announcement]; Reuben Annett, recorded in Inkpen; talks about leaving school; farmwork with cows; apprentice blacksmith at the age of fifteen; wages and living in; working for agricultural engineering firms in Headington, Pewsey and Alton [?Hampshire/?Wiltshire]; joining the Royal Engineers in 1914; war wounds and hospitalisation; return to France until the war's end; Corporal in a Calais blacksmith's shop; working for eighteen years at a local Berkshire sawmills; jobbing gardening; thrashing corn - describes a rail, used for thrashing; mowing grass/corn with a scythe; rick building; joining a [?brass] band at sixteen, playing at clubs [lists locations] and for Christmas/Flower Show events; being taught to play [?instrument] by George Rolfe; first jobs as an apprentice blacksmith; horse shoes, wheel binding, agricultural machinery repairs, gates, boot tips; job as an improver at an agricultural engineering firm; making iron implements/parts - piece work, wages (inc. pay for his
striker) and hours; pig killing - lists the locations where he killed pigs; learning from his father; pay. [Tr. 2]
The collector talks with an unidentified man and woman [no location/date given, but possibly recorded in Kent] about his tape recorder; his fieldwork for the Survey of English Dialects; a potential informant and his family; potential fieldwork locations; Survey fieldworkers; dialectal differences between adjacent counties; the Survey of Welsh Dialects; fieldwork in the Isle of Man; the Channel Islands, Isle of Wight and the Scilly Isles; Somerset dialect. [Tr. 3]
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4.8 and 9.5cm/sec.
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