Survey of English Dialects recording in Kersey, Suffolk
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Type of record: Archive
Title: Survey of English Dialects recording in Kersey, Suffolk
Classmark: LAVC/SRE/D/2/D220
Site Location(s): Place name - Kersey, Babergh, Suffolk, England, United Kingdom( 52.0585, 0.91757 )
Date(s): Jul 1959
Language: English
Size and medium: [Side 1] 05 min. 16 sec.; [Side 2] 05 min. 23 sec.
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/726599
Collection group(s): Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture
1 - Survey of English Dialects recording in Kersey, Suffolk
2 - Survey of English Dialects recording in Kersey, Suffolk
Description
[Side 1] Bert remembers seeing horse-drawn threshing machine, recalls threshers using 'stick-and-a-half' or 'frail' [= implement used for threshing corn by hand], tells anecdote about old farm worker frequently sabotaging threshing machine as he preferred to 'throsh' [= thresh] by hand, describes how 'dib' [= dibble, implement used to create hole for sowing seed] was used to sow corn before introduction of seed drill, describes harvesting by hand. [Side 2] Bert talks about timber shed and 'cart-lodge' [= cart-shed], recalls carting corn to barn for stacking, describes typical day mowing with scythe to make hay, discusses breeding and selling horses, talks briefly about farm wages in past.
Biography or history
Bert b. Kersey, aged 79, local school till aged 12, whole life in Kersey; father b. Kersey; mother b. Kersey; wife b. Hadleigh.
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78 r.p.m., cellulose nitrate on aluminium
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