Sound Recordings, Powys
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Type of record: Archive
Title: Sound Recordings, Powys
Classmark: LAVC/SRE/A832r
Site Location(s): Subject - Builth Wells, Powys, Wales, United Kingdom( 52.1494, -3.40469 ); Subject - Llananno, Powys, Wales, United Kingdom( 52.3614, -3.33203 )
Date(s): [1960s]
Size and medium: 1 x 17.8cm open reel spool; Duration: 64' 48".
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/414883
Collection group(s): Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture
Description
Bert Williams, recorded in Builth Wells [undated]; talks about the town as it was in his youth; describes various buildings, including a gatehouse, temperance houses, cattle market, brewery, Masonic Hall, the Territorial Army, butchers; his first job at a bakers; the tailor; first motorbike seen in the town; pubs and hotels; blacksmiths; working life, including bakers, looking after ponies, bottle washing at a brewery; work at a sawmill - goods made, working day described, wages; the town and visitors to the wells; the Buffalo Bill show coming to town; leisure time - games and sport; working days at the bakers; taking a horse and waggon to/from sawmill; work on the railway; age and health; bottling river water for visitors to the wells. [Tr. 1]
Mr. Hughes, recorded in Llananno [undated]; talks about fires and fireplaces, and the use of turf/peat fuel; grandmother's cooking; side ovens, fuelled by gorse and brushwood; women's work within the farmhouse; farm labourers, casual labour, peddlers; wages and food; small farmers and bartering labour for goods; pig and chicken keeping; pig killing; curing bacon in salt; Moelfre City; the building of small farms and enclosure of common land; clod houses; stone breaking; walking to markets and hirings; (breeding) ponies - Welsh Cob and Welsh Mountain; farming - mostly sheep and cattle; lambing; discuss local dialect and its development [tape ends]. [Tr. 2]
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