Sound Recordings, Essex
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Type of record: Archive
Title: Sound Recordings, Essex
Classmark: LAVC/SRE/A839r
Creator(s): Tilling, Philip M (1938-); Barry, Michael V (1935-)
Site Location(s): Subject - Canewdon, Rochford, Essex, England, United Kingdom( 51.6176, 0.74458 ); Subject - High Easter, Uttlesford, Essex, England, United Kingdom( 51.8082, 0.34912 )
Date(s): 1967
Size and medium: 1 x 12.7cm open reel spool; Duration: 48' 26".
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/414890
Collection group(s): Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture
Description
Charlie Manning, recorded in High Easter; talks about driving a milk cart at the age of ten; driving waggons; ploughing; harvest time; community spirit; marking out a field for ploughing; hedging; crops grown locally; riding a horse leading a binder; foot plough (no wheel); reaping; building a stack; school from the age of three; first job and wages at the age of ten; no fairs in the village (nearest in Chelmsford); rabbiting with ferrets; pig killing and drying/smoking; farm buildings; the fireplace; water supply; leisure time - cricket, gardening, wood collecting; farm waggons; local tradespeople - wheelwright, saddler, blacksmith; haymaking. [Tr. 4]
Mr. W. H. Whitwell, recorded in Canewdon; talks about farm work with horses; describes ploughing with horses, and the morning routine; drilling corn with four horses (twelve acres a day); carting manure onto fields; wages; accommodation; corn/hay stacks, thatched by thatchers; thrashing machine in September/October, with ten/eleven men (compares with a combine harvester); sack carrying; the changing population in the village; family's four-hundred year old connection with the village; witch legend connected with the church; flooding in 1953; hedge laying; fuel (faggots, coal); fireplaces; smoking and salting bacon; describes the number of staff on a farm in the past; living arrangements for labourers (living in); describes a labourer's daily routine, including work breaks; horse breaking; cart and plough harnesses - names the parts; farm carts and waggons; farm machinery - a one-horse reaper known as a flacker, self binder, steam thrashing machine, steam ploughs; haymaking; stacks; school
and discipline, lessons; thatchers; preparing the thatch and the thatching process (for stacks). [Tr. 5]
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