Sound Recordings, Devon
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Type of record: Archive
Title: Sound Recordings, Devon
Classmark: LAVC/SRE/A815r
Creator(s): Wright, John T
Site Location(s): Subject - Parracombe, North Devon, Devon, England, United Kingdom( 51.1866, -3.90952 ); Subject - Weare Giffard, Devon, England, United Kingdom( 50.9769, -4.17165 )
Date(s): October 1958
Size and medium: 1 x 17.8cm open reel spool; Duration: 50' 18".
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/414866
Collection group(s): Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture
Description
[Announcement, ?by Tony Green]; Ernest Smythe, recorded in Parracombe; talks about working life on the railway (as office boy, timekeeper); gangs working on the line, and the difficulty of building it [unclear which line is being talked about, although there is a (now dismantled) line to the south-west of Parracombe, running through Blackmoor Gate]; work at a local brewery; mineral waters; changes in the village - population, shops/traders, churches and chapel; local flooding; flooding at Lynmouth [August 1952]; fox/stag/hare hunting; pigeon shooting; thoughts on cruelty and fox hunting/hare coursing; Parracombe Revel (Whit Monday) - wrestling for silver spoons (traditionally worn in men's hats at church the following Sunday); mischief as a boy; Parracombe's older residents; Harvest Festivals; rabbiting parties; modern and traditional farming compared; community life and neighbourliness; cost of living; music and singing entertainment; cider; farmer-farm labourer relations in the past;
Holwell Castle [motte and bailey], and the local belief that the motte is hollow; poaching - rabbits, gripping fish; disappearance of trout; thoughts on living in the Parracombe area; transport and horse-drawn charabancs of the past; bad winters and losing sheep - describes method of finding buried sheep. [Tr. 5]
[Collector announcement]; Richard Gilbert, recorded in Weare Giffard on the 20 October 1958; talks about milking cows at the age of six; shearing sheep with his father; quality of life, farm food and wages; anecdotes re. his and his father's farming experiences; building his first haystack; sowing corn with horses; storing mangel-wurzles for winter cattle feed; recollection of local flooding when aged five; rabbiting; work as an independent farm labourer. [Tr. 6]
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