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Sound Recordings, Cornwall

Archive Item: LAVC/SRE/A814r

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Type of record: Archive

Title: Sound Recordings, Cornwall

Level: Item

Classmark: LAVC/SRE/A814r

Creator(s): Wakelin, Martyn F; Tilling, Philip M (1938-)

Site Location(s): Subject - St Cleer, Cornwall, England, United Kingdom( 50.4833, -4.46667 )

Date(s): July 1963

Size and medium: 1 x 14.6cm open reel spool; Duration: 31' 53".

Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/414865

Collection group(s): Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture

Description

Mr. N. Cox, recorded in St Cleer; talks about animal (bullock) husbandry; winter feed; lambing time; moor cattle, allowed to roam free within certain boundaries, owned by commoners who pay for commoners' rights; discuss the pounding of cattle who stray too far; the parish of St Cleer; fox/hare hunting; East Cornwall Foxhounds, meeting twice a week; village tug of war team (describes a match); copper/tin mining; piskies [pixies]; Liskeard market. [Tr. 3]


Mr. W. H. Lampshire, recorded in St Cleer; talks about his first farming job, then quarrying at the age of twelve and thirteen; explains quarry work - blasting, breaking, carting away for roads; working hours; gardening; rabbiting; work with horses in a veterinary department during World War One; condition of the local roads; copper mines; local legend of treasure buried near local standing stones [ Trethevy Quoit burial chamber], and that the hole in the capstone was made by the Devil; talks of changes in the village - new houses and people; wrestling; tug of war team; watching television. [Tr. 4]


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