Sound Recording, Buckinghamshire
Details
Type of record: Archive
Title: Sound Recording, Buckinghamshire
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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