Sound Recording, East Sussex
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Type of record: Archive
Title: Sound Recording, East Sussex
Classmark: LAVC/SRE/A824r
Creator(s): Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)
Site Location(s): Subject - Horam, Wealden, East Sussex, England, United Kingdom( 50.9352, 0.24436 )
Date(s): [1964]
Size and medium: 1 x 10cm open reel spool; Duration: 24' 33".
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/414875
Collection group(s): Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture
Description
Mr. W. Glapson, recorded in Horam; talks about his smallholding and retirement from farming; farm work - mowing corn with a scythe, binding and stooking, stacking; modern farming; first jobs, aged fourteen, looking after bulls and gardening; wages; Army pay during World War One; local losses in the war; school; tying up crops; letting crops lay after mowing, to dry; mowing by hand; women and children making bonds, to tie up sheaves; thatching haystacks; making spars and rods; describes the building of a stack, the men involved; barns and storage; threshing and seeing a flail being used in France during the war; oast houses and hops; reference to his mother's charcoal iron; farm livestock; dairy; pig killing and processing; the fireplace and the age of Mr. Glapson's house; cows and calving (signs and difficulties); farm horses; farm mechanisation; winter storage of root vegetables (e.g. turnips).
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9.5cm/sec. High recording level. Adjusted on AC copy.
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