Sound Recording, East Sussex
Description
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 fourteen, looking after bulls and gardening; wages; Army pay during World War One; local losses in the war; school; tying up crops; letting crops lay after mowing, to dry; mowing by hand; women and children making bonds, to tie up sheaves; thatching haystacks; making spars and rods; describes the building of a stack, the men involved; barns and storage; threshing and seeing a flail being used in France during the war; oast houses and hops; reference to his mother's charcoal iron; farm livestock; dairy; pig killing and processing; the fireplace and the age of Mr. Glapson's house; cows and calving (signs and difficulties); farm horses; farm mechanisation; winter storage of root vegetables (e.g. turnips).
Metadata
| Identifier | c25crr82 |
| IRN | 414875 |
| Class Mark | LAVC/SRE/A824r |
| Level | Item |
| Type of Record | Archives - ISAD(G) |
| Peristent Link | http://prototype1.library.leeds.ac.uk/c25crr82 |
| Collection(s) | Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture |
| Category | Archive |
| Parent Record | Audiotape Sound Recordings |
| Creator(s) | Ellis, Stanley |
| Date | [1964] |
| Size and Medium | 1 x 10cm open reel spool, Duration: 24' 33". |