Survey of English Dialects recording in Earl's Croome, Worcestershire

Description

[Side 1] George talks about farm workers' daily intake of cider during haymaking in past, recalls farmer making 30 or 40 'hogshead' [= cask] each year and carrying two buckets on yoke and half-pint 'horn' [= flask] out to field, tells anecdote about being paid by farmer in 3d pieces. [Side 2] George tells anecdote about local character Jack White, recalls Jack visiting 'The Monkey' cider-house in Woodmancote after day's thatching then joining George's father to drInk home-made wine and was later found drunk in roadside ditch, George reflects on wages and working conditions now and in past, talks about keeping own pig and sharing allotment with neighbour to supplement income.

Metadata

Identifier b8kfgc8f
IRN 726574
Class Mark LAVC/SRE/D/2/D195
Level Item
Type of Record Archives - ISAD(G)
Peristent Link http://prototype1.library.leeds.ac.uk/b8kfgc8f
Collection(s) Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture
Category Archive
Parent Record English Dialect Sound Recordings (England and Wales)
Date 12 Dec 1955
Size and Medium [Side 1] 04 min. 31 sec., [Side 2] 05 min. 14 sec.

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