Sound Recording, Cornwall
Details
Type of record: Archive
Title: Sound Recording, Cornwall
Classmark: LAVC/SRE/A813r
Site Location(s): Subject - Duloe, Cornwall, England, United Kingdom( 50.3833, -4.48333 )
Date(s): July 1963
Size and medium: 1 x 17.8cm open reel spool; Duration: 13' 35".
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/414864
Collection group(s): Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture
Description
Harry Welshman, recorded in Duloe; talks about his time in the village; agricultural work and wages; leaving school aged fourteen; father's work as a gamekeeper; Army service during World War One; taking on a smallholding after the war; talk of piskies [pixies], and his father being pisky led; local story re. a duck with no head; stone circles; traditional cures for (nettle) stings; rabbit trapping; lambing time; winters; television; catch can wrestling (traditional Cornish); fishing - trout and salmon, sea (including shark).
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