Survey of English Dialects recording in Horsington, Somerset
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Type of record: Archive
Title: Survey of English Dialects recording in Horsington, Somerset
Classmark: LAVC/SRE/D/2/D267
Site Location(s): Place name - Horsington, Somerset, England, United Kingdom( 51.0129, -2.42712 )
Date(s): Jul 1956
Language: English
Size and medium: [Side 1] 05 min. 10 sec.; [Side 2] 04 min. 39 sec.
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/726646
Collection group(s): Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture
1 - Survey of English Dialects recording in Horsington, Somerset
2 - Survey of English Dialects recording in Horsington, Somerset
Description
[Side 1] Percy talks about current 'cow-dog' [= dog trained to work with cattle], explains dog clipped annually by local pedigree breeder, reflects on horses' and cattle's ability to understand and obey instructions, compares farming now and in past, recalls mowing with scythes. [Side 2] Percy talks about piecework at harvest time, recalls farmers supplying cider and bread and cheese to harvesting gang, briefly mentions annual hiring fair at Sherborne (15th October), describes haymaking in past incl. loading waggon and building 'rick' [= stack] by hand, comments hayricks now replaced by bales, describes specialist work of thatcher, recalls making 'spars' [= thatching pegs] when weather too bad for hedging in winter, comments used last batch as 'faggots' [= bundle of sticks used as fuel].
Biography or history
Percy b. Horsington, aged 59, local school till aged 13, whole life in Horsington; father b. Holton, farmer; mother b. Holton; grandfather b. locally; grandmother b. locally.
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78 r.p.m., cellulose nitrate on aluminium
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