Survey of English Dialects recording in Little Baddow, Essex
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Type of record: Archive
Title: Survey of English Dialects recording in Little Baddow, Essex
Classmark: LAVC/SRE/D/2/D254
Site Location(s): Place name - Little Baddow, Chelmsford, Essex, England, United Kingdom( 51.7375, 0.57623 )
Date(s): Sep 1959
Language: English
Size and medium: [Side 1] 04 min. 55 sec.; [Side 2] 04 min. 59 sec.
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/726633
Collection group(s): Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture
1 - Survey of English Dialects recording in Little Baddow, Essex
2 - Survey of English Dialects recording in Little Baddow, Essex
Description
[Side 1] Harry talks about work on farm as 'house boy' [= young domestic servant] from aged 13, describes typical working day incl. working at weekends, lists duties incl. cleaning boots and cutlery, mucking out stables, feeding chickens, mentions first wage and gradual increase in pay, talks about building stack incl. use of 'policeman' [= stake placed against stack to maintain stability], recalls occasionally helping beaters during pheasant shoot to supplement income, discusses price of beer in past, briefly mentions local mill and Old Hall recently burnt down. [Side 2] Harry describes first horse-drawn 'reaper' [= mechanical device for cutting corn], talks about ploughing with team of horses, compares camaraderie of harvest time working with gang compared with solitary work most of year, recalls long days and regular breaks for beer and 'bever' [= mid-morning snack/packed lunch], comments itinerant farm workers from Scotland changed working patterns.
Biography or history
Harry b. Little Baddow, aged 75, local school till aged 13, whole life in Little Baddow; father b. Langford; mother b. Kent; wife b. Brentwood.
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78 r.p.m., cellulose nitrate on aluminium
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