Survey of English Dialects recording in Fletching, Sussex
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Type of record: Archive
Title: Survey of English Dialects recording in Fletching, Sussex
Classmark: LAVC/SRE/D/2/D296
Site Location(s): Place name - Fletching, Wealden, East Sussex, England, United Kingdom( 50.9933, 0.0345 )
Date(s): Jun 1959
Language: English
Size and medium: [Side 1] 04 min. 54 sec.; [Side 2] 04 min. 56 sec.
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/726675
Collection group(s): Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture
1 - Survey of English Dialects recording in Fletching, Sussex
2 - Survey of English Dialects recording in Fletching, Sussex
Description
[Side 1] Mr Bellingham talks about harvesting different crops, describes mowing wheat with 'swap' [= reaping hook for cutting crops close to ground] and explains how to 'shock up' [= set group of sheaves upright in field for drying], comments 'pikeys' [= gypsies] often helped, describes mowing oats in 'swaths' [= row], explains how to build stack to allow air in and heat out by placing 'poke' [= sack] full of straw in middle and building round it to create flue, describes typical day threshing. [Side 2] Mr Bellingham describes traditional oast-house, explains use of smokeless coal and 'brimstone' [= sulphur] in processing hops, talks about hop-picking gangs, recalls farm worker employed to tread hops, describes traditional wiillow hop-bushel, explains practive of drawing lots for stand in hop-garden, recalls helping mother pick hops as young child, describes annual cycle in hop farming, comments hop farming in decline locally.
Biography or history
Mr Bellingham b. Fletching, aged 60; local school till aged 11, whole life in Fletching; father b. Fletching, farmer; mother b. Fletching.
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Physical and technical conditions
78 r.p.m., cellulose nitrate on aluminium
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