Sound Recordings, Suffolk

Description

[Collector announcement]; Mr. Goddard, recorded at home in Helmingham on the 13 August 1971; talks about his experience of World War One in France (1914-1916); joining an Indian division attached to an ambulance corps, working in a field hospital on a French chateau; trench warfare; the Somme; return to England; posted to Salonica (1917); posted to Port Said, Alexandria; joined division in Palestine, assault on Gaza; buying wine from Jews; ship to Marseilles in 1919; feelings on returning to England; employment situation in 1919; payment of war certificates; employment situation at the outbreak of World War Two; jobs, inter-war (construction, steam waggon repairs); schooling - exams, geometry, certificates; describes brothers' jobs; sings 'The Volunteer Organist' and a fragment of a North American Indian lamentation. Mr. Goddard continues with talk of waifs and strays in London, and Dr. Barnado; sings [unidentified fragment]; sings [unidentified]. [Tr. 4] [Collector announcement]; Leonard Aldous, recorded at home in Debenham on the 14 August 1971; talks about his childhood; leaving school and starting work as an apprentice harness maker (wages, hours); the harness shop as a social centre in the village; harness repairs at farms ceasing after World War One (transport - farmers came to the harness maker); other work, repairing blacksmiths' bellows, carriage interiors; leather tanned in Ipswich; hand stitching harnesses; making threads (waxed, to water proof); making horse collars and saddles; types of leather; costs of harnesses; number of harness shops in the area, and the changing aspect of the trade after World War Two; describes repair work on farms; Suffolk horses, cart horses; drawing competitions (horses pulling loads); use of Suffolk horses; horsemen's remedies (occupational secrets); inspecting each other's work on the farm (e.g. ploughing - if a furrow was not straight, it was said that he's gone over to Will's mothers); skill and knowledge of the ploughman/farmer; invitation from the Rural Industries Bureau to demonstrate at country shows in the region (e.g. the Suffolk Show), during the 1930s; other work (canvass repairs) as horse work declined; rise in the popularity of horse riding; history of Mr. Aldous' harness shop, and its owners; the decline in the use of horses on farms. [Tr. 1] 7 of 7.

Metadata

Identifier bbqslq24
IRN 414793
Class Mark LAVC/SRE/A742r
Level Item
Type of Record Archives - ISAD(G)
Peristent Link http://prototype1.library.leeds.ac.uk/bbqslq24
Collection(s) Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture
Category Archive
Parent Record Audiotape Sound Recordings
Creator(s) Pasanen, Leena
Date August 1971
Size and Medium 1 x 17.8cm open reel spool, Duration: 93' 16".

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