Sound Recordings, Somerset and Devon
Description
Mr. H. Evett , recorded in Brompton Regis; talks about farm work; time started each day; working with horses; hours of work and wages; tools for hedging; also present is a Mr. A. Gibbs, who talks about starting work at the age of eleven, driving horses; lambing; Mr. Evett on hedge laying technique; Mr. Gibbs on ploughing with horses; acres/miles walked; mowing grass with scythes (describes the scythe parts and gives names); changes in the village and farming practices; holidays on New Year's Day and Old Christmas Day (January 6th); fairs; hunting; thatching; rope making; tending bullocks; sheep shearing; working for Somerset County Council, road mending (Mr. Evett); Mr. Gibbs talks about sheep marks; cider making/drinking; the village's pubs. [Tr. 3] Ernest Bowhay, recorded in Blackawton; describes a working day on the farm; hoeing mangel-wurzles; harvesting hay in June; dung carting; lambing; ploughing with horses; horse breaking; milking as a boy aged twelve; old ploughs; tractors; hours of work; drinking; changes in the village; football; social dances; Blackawton (agricultural) Show in June; working at Christmas; hedging and hedging tools; agricultural labourers' pay; ploughing; milking by hand. [Tr. 4]
Metadata
| Identifier | c7nb1gdp |
| IRN | 414842 |
| Class Mark | LAVC/SRE/A791r |
| Level | Item |
| Type of Record | Archives - ISAD(G) |
| Peristent Link | http://prototype1.library.leeds.ac.uk/c7nb1gdp |
| Collection(s) | Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture |
| Category | Archive |
| Parent Record | Audiotape Sound Recordings |
| Creator(s) | Wakelin, Martyn F |
| Date | 1964 |
| Size and Medium | 1 x 10cm open reel spool, Duration: 49' 04". |