Survey of English Dialects recording in West Ilsley, Berkshire
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Type of record: Archive
Title: Survey of English Dialects recording in West Ilsley, Berkshire
Classmark: LAVC/SRE/D/2/D274
Site Location(s): Place name - West Ilsley, Berkshire, England, United Kingdom( 51.5427, -1.32515 )
Date(s): May 1959
Language: English
Size and medium: [Side 1] 04 min. 59 sec.; [Side 2] 04 min. 55 sec.
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/726653
Collection group(s): Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture
1 - Survey of English Dialects recording in West Ilsley, Berkshire
2 - Survey of English Dialects recording in West Ilsley, Berkshire
Description
[Side 1] Charlie compares ploughing with horses and tractors, describes typical working day on farm in past, reflects on changes in village, discusses leisure pursuits in past incl. cricket and football, comments club room busy every night in past, recalls visits to Newbury, talks about harvesting by hand incl. mowing, theshing and building stack. [Side 2] Charlie compares farming now and in past, reflects on impact of mechanisation and subsequent reduction in agricultural labour, lists typical team of farm workers in past, compares cattle farming now and in past, discusses decline in sheep farming locally and impact on land, briefly mentions training of racehorses on Downs.
Biography or history
Charlie b. Newbury, aged 80, school in Newbury, whole life in West Ilsley since 'boyhood'; father b. West Ilsley, farm worker; mother b. West Ilsley; wife b. West Ilsley; father-in-law b. West Ilsley; mother-in-law b. West Ilsley.
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78 r.p.m., cellulose nitrate on aluminium
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