Sound Recordings, Leicestershire and Essex
Description
Mrs. F. E. Annet, recorded in Carlton Curlieu (Leicestershire); talks about a blacksmith and smithy; fireplaces - use and cleaning; curing bacon/ham; grocery deliveries; neighbour's bread baking; places lived; school; factory work; old [?farm] houses; changes in and around the village; local Hunt; the village in modern times; reference to the coal strike of 1916 and unemployment; harvest time and making stacks; housework; collecting water; wash day (equipment). [Tr. 6] Frank Hull, recorded in Tiptree (Essex); talks about the village in the past, describing its commercial and domestic buildings, and including street names; Tiptree Parish; the Maypole [?(wind)mill, ?pub]; Messing Park estate and its owner; the local windmill and other buildings in the area. Mr. Hull continues with talk of the old village, and recollections of new building. [Tr. 7] Harry Hammond, recorded in Tillingham (Essex); talks about the village in the past; playing sports; shops/tradespeople; blacksmith's shop; new housing; farm work; farm horses; wages; Sunday church attendance; upbringing; ploughing with horses; harvest time; building and thatching stacks; farmhouses; farm waggons and carts; apprentice saddler with his father; jobs as postman, butcher's assistant, work at a gravel pit, on an oyster dredger; work for Essex Rivers Board; flooding and the breaching of the sea wall; wartime, 1939-1945 - doodle-bugs, the Home Guard, shortage of beer and cigarettes; hedge laying; land draining; coriander and sugar beet grown locally; sheep farming (shearing); describes the method of thatching; the farm kitchen; haymaking; thoughts on modern farming; schooling; bread baking, fire ovens and the bakehouse; farmhouse fireplace described; pig killing and bacon curing. [Tr. 8]
Metadata
| Identifier | ch1qb1n8 |
| IRN | 414891 |
| Class Mark | LAVC/SRE/A840r |
| Level | Item |
| Type of Record | Archives - ISAD(G) |
| Peristent Link | http://prototype1.library.leeds.ac.uk/ch1qb1n8 |
| Collection(s) | Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture |
| Category | Archive |
| Parent Record | Audiotape Sound Recordings |
| Creator(s) | Tilling, Philip M, Barry, Michael V |
| Date | 1967 |
| Size and Medium | 1 x 12.7cm open reel spool, Duration: 64' 55". |