Survey of English Dialects recording in Appledore, Kent
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Type of record: Archive
Title: Survey of English Dialects recording in Appledore, Kent
Classmark: LAVC/SRE/D/2/D287
Site Location(s): Place name - Appledore, Torridge, Kent, England, United Kingdom( 51.05, -4.2 )
Date(s): Jan 1959
Language: English
Size and medium: [Side 1] 05 min. 00 sec.; [Side 2] 05 min. 05 sec.
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/726666
Collection group(s): Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture
1 - Survey of English Dialects recording in Appledore, Kent
2 - Survey of English Dialects recording in Appledore, Kent
Description
[Side 1] Fred recalls cycling long distances to visit farms as travelling thresher, lists local farms visited incl. Newchurch, Brookland, Brenzett, Wittersham and Tenterden, comments specialist equipment (e.g. sieves for beans) often required, reflects on long hours visiting two or three farms a day, comments traction engines travelled max. 4 miles an hour, mentions introduction of wild white clover to local arms and subsequent work stacking hay for threshing, recalls reliable supplier of machinery and parts in Stowmarket. [Side 2] Fred describes how he decided to sell threshing machine and buy smallholding, talks about government advice during World War 1 to build stacks in separate fields to avoid risk of losing entire crop to incendiary bombs, recalls occasionally helping local farmer thresh corn and peas, mentions restrictions on travel during World War 1.
Biography or history
Fred b. Appledore, aged 79; local school till aged 12, whole life in Appledore; father b. Appledore, farm worker & sawyer; mother b. Appledore, farm worker; wife b. Brookland.
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78 r.p.m., cellulose nitrate on aluminium
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