Sound Recordings, Dorset

Description

Mr. Denning, recorded in Netherbury; talks about the cider making process, including fermenting, corking and tapping barrels, quantities made, apple orchards, storage, the cider press (demonstrates/explains its use), remnants of the cider cheese fed to cattle; more on barrelling and corking; skimming vats; informant acquiring the nickname Doctor; cider colour; importation of French cider apples; sings fragment of 'Drink Up Your Cider'; use of French apples/juice; storage in cellars; cider for farmworkers. [Tr. 4] Male [?Mr. Tome], [?recorded in a pub], sings 'There was a little sparrow' [first line]; talks about visiting London for the first time; farm work with horses; wages and the cost of living; sings 'Buttercup Joe', 'That Old Fashioned Mother of Mine' and 'You Won't Catch Me on a Gee-Gee Back Again'; talks of working with horses; ploughing; care of horses; describes the working day; haymaking; cider - drinking, cost; cider making; milking cows; the village; Honiton [?Devon] town; entertainment (dances); Honiton Fair; sings 'I'm Forever Blowing Bubbles'; family, siblings; wartime blackouts; childhood - Sundays, wages; thoughts on modern workers. [Tr. 1] 4 of 11.

Metadata

Identifier cdxhp1g2
IRN 414748
Class Mark LAVC/SRE/A697r
Level Item
Type of Record Archives - ISAD(G)
Peristent Link http://prototype1.library.leeds.ac.uk/cdxhp1g2
Collection(s) Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture
Category Archive
Parent Record Audiotape Sound Recordings
Creator(s) Panheinen, Ossi
Date [1970]
Size and Medium 1 x 12.7cm open reel spool, Duration: 66' 24".

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