Sound Recordings, Cornwall
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Type of record: Archive
Title: Sound Recordings, Cornwall
Classmark: LAVC/SRE/A873
Creator(s): Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009); Wakelin, Martyn F; Wright, John T
Site Location(s): Subject - St. Ewe, Cornwall, England, United Kingdom( 50.2667, -4.8333 )
Date(s): 1958-1963
Size and medium: 1 audiocassette.; Duration: 43' 18".
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/414924
Collection group(s): Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture
Description
[Collector announcement]; Francis Lobb, recorded by Stanley Ellis in St Ewe on the 29 March 1963; answers a selection of questions from the Dieth-Orton dialect survey Questionnaire [various Books]; discussion of left-handedness and the term ?clecky-handed [wife also contributes]; family farming; farm work with horses at the age of fourteen; farm size, acreage ploughed, beef cattle; butter and (cheddar) cheese making; the village population; local estate farms and cottages (many now sold off); thoughts on tenant farming [wife contributes]; farming methods and changes in the last ten to fifteen years; ploughing an acre a day with horses; corn cutting machinery; binding sheaves by hand; compares bullock prices; price of corn (per hundredweight); pig killing; price of wool per pound; lambing; the local weather. [Tr. 4] [This is a copy of a recording on tape LAVC/SRE/A810r.]
[Collector announcement]; James Jago, recorded in St Ewe on the 10 December 1958 by John Wright; talks about work on leaving school; the working day on a farm; jobs undertaken; changes in modern times (transport, tractors); farm oxen (yokes, teams); size of farm/fields where oxen worked; fondness for horses; describes horse breaking; shipwrecks and the wreck of The Palace; its restoration and new name of The Try Again; informant's working life on farms, and for the local Council; long/short-handled shovels; agricultural wages; farm labourers living in on the farm; labourers' food; offers of work, pay rise and leaving the farm. [Tr. 5]
[Cassette copy of the currently unplayable recording on tape LAVC/SRE/A808r.]
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Speakers' voices run quite fast. Possible that the original from which this copy was made has a fast playback speed.
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