Sound Recordings, Devon and Cornwall
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Type of record: Archive
Title: Sound Recordings, Devon and Cornwall
Classmark: LAVC/SRE/A816r
Creator(s): Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009); Wakelin, Martyn F
Site Location(s): Subject - Swimbridge, Devon, England, United Kingdom( 51.0528, -3.97073 ); Subject - Kilkhampton, Cornwall, England, United Kingdom( 50.8757, -4.48392 )
Date(s): March 1963
Size and medium: 1 x 17.8cm open reel spool; Duration: 44' 56".
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/414867
Collection group(s): Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture
Description
[Stanley Ellis announcement]; Samuel Snell, recorded on his farm in Swimbridge; talks about the bad winter of 1962/1963; farming sheep and beef bullocks; Devon Closewool [sheep breed]; discuss sheep farming, lambs, the lambing season and the effect of bad weather (snow); local water supply; changes in farming - working hours, wages, cost of living, mechanisation; farm staff; rented cottage accommodation; water supply to the village installed by the Duke of Bedford; changes in the village; housing (cottages) - flooring and lighting; craftspeople - village blacksmiths, carpenters, shoemakers, tailors; church and chapel burial yards; history of the church; blessing the plough ceremony; wooden ploughs; commands to horses; local gentry; Duke of Bedford; Lord Fortescue; tenant farming and tied cottages. [Tr. 1]
[Stanley Ellis announcement]; Richard Heard, recorded in Kilkhampton on the 28 March 1963 [wife and ?daughter also present]; answers a number of questions from the Dieth-Orton (Survey of English Dialects) Questionnaire; talks about leaving school and being out to service, tending bullocks at the age of eleven; hours of work; other jobs, including hedge paring and milking cows; supper at six o'clock (seven days a week) - pay sixpence a day; describes dung collecting and tipping on fields, using a dray; sheep - Longwool breed, shearing, marks; hedge maintenance/strengthening/laying (steeping) - explains the methods and tools used; explains the method of thatching a hay rick with rushes; explains the technique for spinning rope, used to tie up ricks; father corn reaping with a hook, binding and shocking; drinking point for cattle (?hollin/?hollen). [Tr. 2]
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Physical and technical conditions
19cm/sec. Early part of Kilkhampton recording affected by drop-out.
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