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Sound Recording, Buckinghamshire

Archive Item: LAVC/SRE/A836r

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Type of record: Archive

Title: Sound Recording, Buckinghamshire

Level: Item

Classmark: LAVC/SRE/A836r

Creator(s): Tilling, Philip M (1938-); Barry, Michael V (1935-)

Site Location(s): Subject - Colnbrook, Slough, Buckinghamshire, England, United Kingdom( 51.4838, -0.52142 ); Subject - Covent Garden, Camden, Greater London, England, United Kingdom( 51.5142, -0.12471 ); Subject - Horton, Buckinghamshire, England, United Kingdom( 51.85, -0.65 )

Date(s): 1967

Size and medium: 1 x 12.7cm open reel spool; Duration: 20' 45".

Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/414887

Collection group(s): Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture

Description

Francis Hutt, recorded in Horton; talks about building and thatching corn stacks; clipping hedges; market gardening; milk round with pony - first job, aged eleven; carters' wages; ploughing and horse harnesses; the farmhouse, including the bakehouse; barley; harvesting with a delivery binder; carts and vans; new houses in the village; the use of dung as a fertilizer; farm labour; working day and the jobs undertaken; cattle fair at Colnbrook; the Water Board, reservoirs and the reduction of land for cattle; gravel extraction; soil quality; modern farm buildings; wartime and the Royal Air Force search lights; flooding in 1914; threshing; trussing straw; haymaking; threshing machine and threshers' gang; modern farm labour; delivery of produce, past and present; horse vans; Covent Garden Market and his family's stall.

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