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Sound Recordings, Warwickshire

Archive Item: LAVC/SRE/A843r Contains digital media

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Type of record: Archive

Title: Sound Recordings, Warwickshire

Level: Item

Classmark: LAVC/SRE/A843r

Creator(s): Siporin, Rae Lee

Site Location(s): Subject - Nether Whitacre, North Warwick, Warwickshire, England, United Kingdom( 52.5332, -1.65722 ); Subject - Stoneleigh, Warwick, Warwickshire, England, United Kingdom( 52.35, -1.51667 )

Date(s): June 1965

Size and medium: 1 x 12.7cm open reel spool; Duration: 55' 13".

Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/414894

Collection group(s): Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture

Description

[Collector announcement]; Bella Green, recorded in Nether Whitacre; talks about her childhood; working in service at a farm in Coleshill; farm work - hoeing, digging, carting, harvesting; horse raking; describes the farm and others worked on until the age of sixty-one; milking; animal feeding; haymaking; liking for all farm work; farm buildings; building hay/corn stacks; drying hay to prevent stack fires; loading the hay waggon; jobs of waggoner, stockman, cowman; milking by hand; milk yield; her children; local speech, past and present; crops grown on the farm; selling potatoes; livestock; [tape squeal from this point]; wool picking; maggoting; lambing; calving; the weather; wages; upbringing [?in Coleshill]; Coleshill Market [tape squeal distorts voices]. [Tr. 1]


[Collector announcement]; Sidney Rench, recorded in Stoneleigh; gives biographical information; talks about his schooling; his first job, helping the Sexton of Stoneleigh Church; moving to Canada in 1911, to work with his brother; joining the Army in 1915; training recruits in the 105th Saskatoon Fusiliers, before this; joining battalions in Winnipeg; returning to Britain in 1915; Army service during World War One; war wound; starting a newsagent business in 1926; village cricket and football; demobilisation; positions held in the British Legion and the local cricket club; family; [male enters and contributes occasionally]; writing the history of Stoneleigh Cricket Club; relates childhood pranks; the village policeman; names local men in the war with him; talk of estate workers. [Tr. 2]

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