Sound Recordings, Shropshire, Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire
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Type of record: Archive
Title: Sound Recordings, Shropshire, Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire
Classmark: LAVC/SRE/A849r
Creator(s): Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)
Site Location(s): Subject - Diddlebury, Shropshire, England, United Kingdom( 52.4658, -2.73249 ); Subject - Kinlet, Shropshire, England, United Kingdom( 52.4197, -2.41461 ); Subject - Oxton, Newark, Nottinghamshire, England, United Kingdom( 53.0553, -1.0628 ); Subject - Stonebroom, Derbyshire, England, United Kingdom( 53.1342, -1.37878 ); Subject - Weston Rhyn, Shropshire, England, United Kingdom( 52.9142, -3.0657 )
Date(s): 1955-1957
Size and medium: 1 x 12.7cm open reel spool; Duration: 25' 47".
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/414900
Collection group(s): Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture
Description
[Collector announcement]; George Davies, recorded in Weston Rhyn in January 1955; talks about his work as a coupler in a coal mine, coupling full waggons; the overseer, known as a doggy; describes conditions underground, pushing waggons, holding a Davy Lamp in his mouth, the low ceilings. [Tr. 1]
[Collector announcement]; Harry Corfield, recorded in one of his fields in Diddlebury in January 1955; talks about hedge laying and the tools used; ditching; describes farm buildings, corn storage and cattle sheds [recording affected by wind noise]. [Tr. 2]
[Collector announcement]; William Horton, recorded in Kinlet in January 1955; talks about threshing corn and the use of a thrail; harvesting with scythes/hooks; tying up sheaves; stacking in ricks. [Tr. 3]
Percy Strutt, recorded in Oxton in February 1957; talks about the death of a young man in the Army [?possibly a fellow agricultural labourer]; taking a horse for shoeing in Inkpen and controlling it for the blacksmith. [Extract from longer interview on tape LAVC/SRE/A726r] [Tr. 4]
[Collector announcement]; Horace Brian, recorded at home in Stonebroom in May 1956; general conversation re. a car number plate; working in a coal mine opening and hanging ventilation doors; maintenance of air flow in the mine; water in mines; thoughts on training and practical work experience; underground roadways and pit props; the placement of bore holes for blasting. [Tr. 5]
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