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Sound Recording, Hampshire

Archive Item: LAVC/SRE/A822r

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Type of record: Archive

Title: Sound Recording, Hampshire

Level: Item

Classmark: LAVC/SRE/A822r

Creator(s): Wright, John T

Site Location(s): Subject - Hatherden, Hampshire, England, United Kingdom( 51.2513, -1.50792 )

Date(s): January 1958

Size and medium: 1 x 17.8cm open reel spool; Duration: 24' 04".

Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/414873

Collection group(s): Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture

Description

Charles Dudman, recorded in a pub in Hatherden; talks about a shepherding job on leaving school; ?locus beans in sheep feed; work as a garden boy at Clanville Lodge; humorous anecdote re. a visit to [?Great] Bedwyn; gamekeeping and pheasant feeds (past and present); [recording level drops - voices indistinct for five minutes]; [followed by part of a conversation, involving an unidentified male, female and ?son talking with John Wright about the local police, and the parishes of Penton Grafton and Penton Mewsey (both in Hampshire, near Andover)]. [Tr. 2]


Charles Dudman continues to talk about pheasants and pheasant shooting; (preparations for) the shooting season; the use of dogs; his father; changes in farming and the decline in the use of horses; changes in the cost of living; pig keeping; curing and drying bacon; warmed beer and gin; his grandfather and drinking; family Christmasses with his grandfather; Clanville Fete/Club; grandfather's agricultural labouring (piecework) on an estate; ploughing with horses (driving, no ploughboy to lead); [followed by part of a conversation between John Wright and an unidentified male and female, as for Track One; who talk of the cars owned by the female's father; collecting things; Babycham and champagne drinks.] [Tr. 3]

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