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Sound Recording, [Devon]
Panheinen, Ossi
[1970]
Mr. Woodman [?recorded in the garden of his home, in Honiton] talks about the dry weather; a flood two years previously; vegetable gardening; farm work and working hours [tape runs fast to this point,...
Sound Recordings, Lincolnshire and Suffolk
Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)
1959-1960
William Brothwell and Florence Greenwood, recorded in Wragby in April 1960; talk about foxes and shooting them; Mr. Brothwell's farming career; setting a field for ploughing; livestock; thatching and ...
Hawker's Van
[1970s]
Copy of a photograph taken in the early 20th century of a Gypsy Traveller girl sitting on the steps of a hawker's van at an unknown location, possibly in Herefordshire. Three different types of basket...
Sound Recordings, Cambridgeshire
Tammivaara, Irmeli
July 1975
[Collector announcement]; Alice Baker, recorded at Pymore on the 17 July 1975 [continued from tape LAVC/SRE/A673r]; talks about March dust storms; floods of 1912 and 1950s; the condition of local (dro...
Sound Recordings, Warwickshire, Worcestershire and Oxfordshire
Barry, Michael V (1935-)
July 1966
[Collector announcement]; Harry Cook, recorded in Shipston on Stour (Warwickshire); talks about ploughing with horses and the setting up of a field in preparation; building and thatching hay/corn stac...
Sound Recordings, Cambridgeshire
Tammivaara, Irmeli
June 1974
[Collector announcement]; May Hard, recorded in Pymore on 13 June 1974; talks about her father's job as a blacksmith, shoes for horses and donkeys, cart repairs, making harrows, repairing/sharpening p...
Sound Recordings, Berkshire, Surrey, Essex and West Sussex
Barry, Michael V (1935-)
1959
[Collector announcement]; Charles Allen, recorded in West Ilsley; talks about ploughing with horses; ploughing with tractors; compares past and present; describes a working day on the farm; the villag...
Sound Recordings, Salop, Cheshire and Staffordshire
Barry, Michael V (1935-)
1966
Mr. R. Morris, recorded in Llanymynech (Salop) on the 26 September 1966; talks about types of plough; waggoners; ploughing (matches); corn stacks; haymaking - use of horse mower, turning, making cocks...
Sound Recordings, Bedfordshire
Shaw, David H
1950s-1975
The first two [?radio broadcast] recordings on this tape relate to working and community life in Luton. The first, with an introduction by Ron Hall and possibly recorded in the late 1950s, is entitled...
Sound Recordings, Essex
Berntsen, Howard N
1959-1961
Arthur Wapling, recorded in East Mersea; talks about farming methods; ploughing with horses - describes a stetch, dividing the field, (water) furrows and drainage; modern day farming - compares workin...
Sound Recording, East Sussex
Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)
[1964]
Mr. W. Glapson, recorded in Horam; talks about his smallholding and retirement from farming; farm work - mowing corn with a scythe, binding and stooking, stacking; modern farming; first jobs, aged fou...
Sound Recordings, [Devon]
Panheinen, Ossi
[1970]
Mr. Collins [location not given] talks about flour milling; flour mill and working conditions; milling machinery and processes; cider; wages and working conditions; wages on leaving school; Christmas;...