Sound Recordings, Leicestershire and Essex
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Type of record: Archive
Title: Sound Recordings, Leicestershire and Essex
Classmark: LAVC/SRE/A840r
Creator(s): Tilling, Philip M (1938-); Barry, Michael V (1935-)
Site Location(s): Subject - Carlton Curlieu, Harborough, Leicestershire, England, United Kingdom( 52.5612, -0.97321 ); Subject - Tiptree, Colchester, Essex, England, United Kingdom( 51.813, 0.75737 ); Subject - Tillingham, Maldon, Essex, England, United Kingdom( 51.6968, 0.882 )
Date(s): 1967
Size and medium: 1 x 12.7cm open reel spool; Duration: 64' 55".
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/414891
Collection group(s): Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture
Description
Mrs. F. E. Annet, recorded in Carlton Curlieu (Leicestershire); talks about a blacksmith and smithy; fireplaces - use and cleaning; curing bacon/ham; grocery deliveries; neighbour's bread baking; places lived; school; factory work; old [?farm] houses; changes in and around the village; local Hunt; the village in modern times; reference to the coal strike of 1916 and unemployment; harvest time and making stacks; housework; collecting water; wash day (equipment). [Tr. 6]
Frank Hull, recorded in Tiptree (Essex); talks about the village in the past, describing its commercial and domestic buildings, and including street names; Tiptree Parish; the Maypole [?(wind)mill, ?pub]; Messing Park estate and its owner; the local windmill and other buildings in the area.
Mr. Hull continues with talk of the old village, and recollections of new building. [Tr. 7]
Harry Hammond, recorded in Tillingham (Essex); talks about the village in the past; playing sports; shops/tradespeople; blacksmith's shop; new housing; farm work; farm horses; wages; Sunday church attendance; upbringing; ploughing with horses; harvest time; building and thatching stacks; farmhouses; farm waggons and carts; apprentice saddler with his father; jobs as postman, butcher's assistant, work at a gravel pit, on an oyster dredger; work for Essex Rivers Board; flooding and the breaching of the sea wall; wartime, 1939-1945 - doodle-bugs, the Home Guard, shortage of beer and cigarettes; hedge laying; land draining; coriander and sugar beet grown locally; sheep farming (shearing); describes the method of thatching; the farm kitchen; haymaking; thoughts on modern farming; schooling; bread baking, fire ovens and the bakehouse; farmhouse fireplace described; pig killing and bacon curing. [Tr. 8]
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