Sound Recordings, Powys
Details
Type of record: Archive
Title: Sound Recordings, Powys
Classmark: LAVC/SRE/A829r
Creator(s): Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009); Parry, David (1937-)
Site Location(s): Subject - Llanafan-Fawr, Powys, Wales, United Kingdom( 52.1901, -3.51021 ); Subject - Upper Chapel, Powys, Wales, United Kingdom( 52.0545, -3.44904 )
Date(s): [1960s]
Size and medium: 1 x 10cm open reel spool; Duration: 29' 19".
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/414880
Collection group(s): Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture
Description
[Collector announcement (Ellis)]; Mr. ?Richards, recorded outside in Llanafan-fawr [undated]; talks about the electricity supply to the area; fire grates in local houses; peat burning; local dwellings; discusses a house interior, whilst standing inside a derelict cottage; talk of the bread oven and bread making; the internal layout of the cottage, and its previous owners [the building now used as a ?farm building/?storage shed by the informant]; informant's farming activities; calving; cow ailments, including black water, and remedies. [Tr. 6]
[Collector announcement (Ellis)]; [gap, five minutes]; Trevor Williams, recorded in Upper Chapel; talks about the education of children, and encouraging ability; the bettering of children through education, and their moving away from the area/farming as a career; discuss his father-in-law's speech; Mr. Williams' schooling; working on his uncle's farm (wages/hours in 1934/1935); the standard of living and food supply (compares this with the quality of life for some farm servants); describes Fair day at Brecon, and the attitudes of farmers assessing agricultural labourers; movement of labour away from rural areas to the cities; attitudes to farm labouring; alternative employment (in garages, driving) with the coming of tractors; disappearance of smaller farms and villages in the area (eighty-four, due to the establishment of an artillery range); rural depopulation; amalgamation of smaller farms; farming, farm sizes and hill rights (summer grazing); current attitude to farmers/farming. [Tr. 7]
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Physical and technical conditions
9.5cm/sec. Llanafan-fawr recording affected by wind noise picked up by the microphone, early in the interview. Upper Chapel recording affected by drop out, caused by loose microphone connection when the original recording was made.
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