Sound Recordings, Kent
Details
Type of record: Archive
Title: Sound Recordings, Kent
Classmark: LAVC/SRE/A807r
Creator(s): Barry, Michael V (1935-)
Site Location(s): Subject - Goudhurst, Tunbridge Wells, Kent, England, United Kingdom( 51.1131, 0.45615 ); Subject - Stoke, Medway, Kent, England, United Kingdom( 51.4417, 0.63208 )
Date(s): 1958
Size and medium: 1 x 12.7cm open reel spool; Duration: 57' 07".
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/414858
Collection group(s): Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture
Description
[Collector announcement]; Frank Osbourne, recorded in Goudhurst in November 1958; talks about his working hours on the farm/land with horses; his agricultural labourer's wage of fourteen shillings a week at the age of sixteen; road mending and wages; running out waste bands and tying them on in hop gardens as a boy aged eight and nine; mother hop tying also; father's wage; punishment for being late to school; taking horses to a forge for shoeing; harness/horse cleaning; driving three plough horses at the age of eight; no leisure time; describes round/foot ploughs, and ploughing technique. [Tr. 1]
[Collector announcement]; William Ostler, recorded in Stoke in September 1958; talks about ploughing with horses; names parts of plough and attachments; ploughing technique; raising/lowering the plough; refers to a Kent plough; Kent sheep; seeing the ship Great Eastern; decline in sheep farming on the Isle of Grain; sheep shearing and wages; potato-growing on the Isle of Grain; later development in market gardening, corn-growing (produce transported to London); decline in small-scale cow-keeping and milk production; tractor ploughing; working with farm horses; pig-keeping; lighting (candles); local school; cow-keeping and price of milk; describes a farmhouse; talk of harvesting, haystacks and haymaking; thatching stacks; loss of village wheelwright and blacksmith; visiting sawyers and shoe-turners to the village; waggoning corn; horsemen changing jobs on Michaelmas Day (October 11th); parish bread. [Tr. 2]
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