Sound Recordings, Salop, Cheshire and Staffordshire
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Type of record: Archive
Title: Sound Recordings, Salop, Cheshire and Staffordshire
Classmark: LAVC/SRE/A834r
Site Location(s): Subject - Audlem, Cheshire, England, United Kingdom( 52.9896, -2.50706 ); Subject - Barlaston, Stafford, Staffordshire, England, United Kingdom( 52.942, -2.1705 ); Subject - Kynnersley, Shropshire, England, United Kingdom( 52.75, -2.48333 ); Subject - Prees, Shropshire, England, United Kingdom( 52.8969, -2.66401 ); Subject - Hanmer, Wrexham, Wales, United Kingdom( 52.9511, -2.81289 ); Subject - Llanymynech, Carreghofa, Powys, Wales, United Kingdom( 52.7809, -3.08875 )
Date(s): 1966
Size and medium: 1 x 12.7cm open reel spool; Duration: 91' 14".
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/414885
Collection group(s): Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture
Description
Mr. R. Morris, recorded in Llanymynech (Salop) on the 26 September 1966; talks about types of plough; waggoners; ploughing (matches); corn stacks; haymaking - use of horse mower, turning, making cocks, double pitching; the devil (tool for loading hay onto a waggon); thatching stacks (technique); thatchers; thatching house roofs; harvest suppers; farm waggons (various types); farm carts (including the tumbril) and uses. [Tr. 1]
Stephen Morris, recorded in Hanmer (Flintshire) on the 23 September 1966; talks about ploughs and ploughing; building corn stacks and thatching tops; thatching tools; hay cutting with a horse mower; turning the hay with a horse rake; making ?coils; pitching; farm work, including milking; seasonal agricultural jobs; wages paid to labourers by Mr. Morris' father; describes the method of cheesemaking; selling the cheese; pig killing; curing ham/bacon; farm mechanisation (milking machines); involvement in village life (Church Council); changes in the village (industry, people); overseeing rates collection in [unidentified].
William Beddow, recorded in Prees (Salop) on the 23 September 1966; talks about ploughs and ploughing; reference to ploughs used in Wales; setting up the field; thatched corn stacks; working days on the farm; farm wages; haymaking; describes a barn interior; farm mechanisation; engines and their use in farming; the village; waggons and carts; the village blacksmith; making lime; hedging; crops grown locally; pig killing and processing, curing with salt; the fireplace and range; bread oven; mechanisation of milking; May Day horse fair at Llanymynech. [Tr. 3]
Harry Griffiths, recorded in Audlem (Cheshire) on the 23 September 1966; talks about (horse) fairs in the village, and also the sale of livestock; a ropemaker and rope walk; waggons and deliveries; transport (railway, bus and car); school; working on the railway (wages, working day); hay stacks; thatching; crops grown locally; serving with the Glamorgan Horse Artillery during World War One; active service in France (the Somme) and Italy; Armistice Day. [Tr. 4]
Fred Smith, recorded in Kynnersley (Shropshire); talks about work on the farm; looking after cattle; milking by hand; ploughing/harvesting with horses; crops; haymaking; the Depression of the 1930s; working for the Council on the roads; retirement; water mill and eel cage; ploughing, including setting up the field; modern farming; working day on the farm; livestock; waggons - wheel position and turning; hay/corn stacks and thatching; Hanmer Oddfellows' Club (meetings). [Tr. 5]
Mr. W. Pointon, recorded in Barlaston (Staffordshire); talks about farm waggons; setting up a field for ploughing; potato sowing; describes the process of thatching a stack and a house roof; breaking horses for ploughing; horse fair [?in Barlaston]; Market DraytonDirty Fair (buying/selling horses); changes in the village (size); the village mill; ploughing and other field work - acreage covered per day. [Tr. 6]
Unidentified male [location not given] talks about farming with horses and by hand; ploughs and ploughing; farm wages; father's work as a teamsman, his wages and the food he ate; working with a threshing machine; food supplied by the farmer; wages; hay/corn stacks; crops grown; kale; modern farming; [Market] Drayton Dirty Fair; modernisation and mechanisation in farming; milking (by machine/hand); milking competitions; hedge laying; haymaking; mowing with horses. [Tr. 7]
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Physical and technical conditions
9.5cm/sec. High recording levels. Some dry tape squeal during final recording.
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