Survey of English Dialects recording in Warnham, Sussex
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Type of record: Archive
Title: Survey of English Dialects recording in Warnham, Sussex
Classmark: LAVC/SRE/D/2/D294
Site Location(s): Place name - Warnham, Horsham, West Sussex, England, United Kingdom( 51.0911, -0.34847 )
Date(s): Nov 1959
Language: English
Size and medium: [Side 1] 04 min. 52 sec.; [Side 2] 04 min. 40 sec.
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/726673
Collection group(s): Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture
1 - Survey of English Dialects recording in Warnham, Sussex
2 - Survey of English Dialects recording in Warnham, Sussex
Description
[Side 1] Frank describes traditional waggons, recalls mowing corn with scythe and 'fag-hook' [= hooked scythe], explains importance of standing corn in 'shocks' [= groups of sheaves placed upright for drying], talks about building and thatching 'rick' [= stack] and use of 'spars' [= rod used to secure thatch], compares farming now and in past incl. practice of 'leasing' [= gathering leftover corn] after harvest, recalls farmer taking leasing-corn to mill for grinding and mother baking bread twice a week in brick oven with 'faggot' [= bundle of sticks used as fuel]. [Side 2] Frank discusses ploughing in 'cants' [= division of field], explains use of 'drill' [= horse-drawn machine for sowing seed] and importance of seed-harrow or sheep to cut top off strong early growth to produce newer thicker shoots of corn, describes how to 'lay' hedge [= intertwine branches of brushwood to form/repair hedge], recalls 'stockman' [ = cowman] preparing cattle for show, reflects on changes in farming,
comments ditches and hedges no longer maintained as previously, discusses nature of roads before advent of steam-rollers.
Biography or history
Frank b. Warnham, aged 78; local school till aged 13, whole life in Warnham except during WW1; father b. Warnham, farm worker; mother b. Warnham, farm worker; wife b. London, grew up in Portsmouth.
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78 r.p.m., cellulose nitrate on aluminium
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