Sound Recordings, Leicestershire, Lincolnshire and Cambridgeshire
Details
Type of record: Archive
Title: Sound Recordings, Leicestershire, Lincolnshire and Cambridgeshire
Classmark: LAVC/SRE/A841r
Creator(s): Tilling, Philip M (1938-); Barry, Michael V (1935-)
Site Location(s): Subject - Elsworth, South Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England, United Kingdom( 52.2547, -0.07225 ); Subject - Packington, Leicester, Leicestershire, England, United Kingdom( 52.7285, -1.46616 ); Subject - Swaby, Lincolnshire, England, United Kingdom( 53.28, 0.0783 ); Subject - Kibworth, Leicestershire, England, United Kingdom( 52.5444, -0.99491 )
Date(s): 1967
Size and medium: 1 x 12.7cm open reel spool; Duration: 64' 24".
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/414892
Collection group(s): Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture
Description
Edward Orton, recorded in Packington (Leicestershire); talks about building a haystack, and thatching it with wheat straw; farmhouses; curing bacon; livestock; selling land for housing; modern farming; hedge laying; Packington Wakes [fair/feast]; describes the village and changes (newcomers); ploughing and setting the field with horses; sowing and harrowing; farm carts/waggons; farmhouse fireplaces; stacking (hay) - gives shapes and dimensions; schools in the village; morning jobs as a child, before attending school; describes a working day on the farm; haymaking; mining in the area (coal from Donisthorpe Colliery for domestic use); pig keeping; farm buildings; Packington deadweights [?blason populaire]. [Tr. 1]
Unidentified male, possibly recorded in Kibworth (Leicestershire); talks about ploughing with horses at the age of twelve (in Norfolk); moving to Leicestershire and working as a plough boy; talk of steam ploughs; soil types; working hours; milking, ploughing, harness cleaning (evenings); ploughing with three horses; feeding the soil (manuring); steam ploughing; field drainage; harvesting with scythes, tying and shocking by hand (piece work); money prize for the best stack; steam threshing. [Tr. 2]
William Burnett, recorded in Swaby (Lincolnshire); talks about agricultural labourers' wages and hours of work; driving sheep to Louth; sheep-shearing; describes a farm fire; new and subsequent employers, locations and lengths of service; buying a smallholding in the 1930s; haystacking; thoughts on modern farming methods; ploughing with horses, and also an early model of tractor. [Tr. 3]
Walter Braybrook, recorded in Elsworth (Cambridgeshire); talks about manual agricultural labour; land drainage; mowing, ploughing and drilling with horses; describes the construction and thatching of a haystack; farm machinery and mechanisation; seed drilling (walking ten acres a day); daily routine, including preparing the horses; lists the jobs done on the farm; the cost of living; harvest time; education; hours of work and wages; World War One Army service. [Tr. 4]
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9.5cm/sec. Copy tape.
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