Sound Recordings, Devon

Description

Mr. Berry of Holcombe Rogus [wife also present], continued from tape LAVC/SRE/A692r. Talks about local tradespeople, including a butcher, blacksmith, chair and cabinet maker; comments on the number of blacksmiths in the area in the past, needed to shoe farm horses; catching rabbits; cycling; Harvest Festival; marriage and the home; bell ringing. [Tr. 1] [Collector announcement]; Mr. Netherway of Sampford Peverell [wife also present] talks about his working life, including farm work; leisure time as a youth; Christmas and ashen faggots; Bampton Fair; the weather; Harvest Festival. [Tr. 2] [Collector announcement]; Mr. Cleave of Uplowman, recorded outside, talks about his working life; farming; living on the same farm he moved to as a boy in 1902; milking; ploughing with horses; hedge laying; the disappearance of hedges to make larger fields; tractors and mechanisation; ditches and drains; water wheels; windmills; cider making - process and equipment; compares with modern ciders; selling/price of cider; Christmas time as a child; burning ashen faggots; changes in Bampton Fair; Harvest Festival; changes in work and leisure activities; unemployment and attitudes to work. [Tr. 3] [Collector announcement]; Mr. Cordwent of Whitnage [wife also present] talks about farming and changes in the local area; farm mechanisation; ploughing with horses; growth in arable farming; leisure time - hunting, dances, day trips to the coast (with school); farm labourers; the farmhouse; Christmas and ashen faggots; Bampton Fair; Taunton Market; Sampford Peverell Fair; Tiverton Junction Market; the private sale of his own livestock. Mr. Cordwent continues with a description of the cider making process; talks of the taste of cider, types of apples used; pig killing; thoughts on the government and farming; agricultural colleges and the importance of practical experience in farming; travelling beyond Devon; childhood illnesses and stays in a sanatorium; Devonshire dialects; discusses an old photograph of the village; entertainment as a youth - dances, the pub; transport - bicycle, horse and trap; the impact of World War One on the village; farming during World War Two; effect of war on prices; the manual nature of farm work in the past. [Tr. 4] 6 of 6.

Metadata

Identifier chxg35nl
IRN 414744
Class Mark LAVC/SRE/A693r
Level Item
Type of Record Archives - ISAD(G)
Peristent Link http://prototype1.library.leeds.ac.uk/chxg35nl
Collection(s) Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture
Category Archive
Parent Record Audiotape Sound Recordings
Creator(s) Stigell, Ossi
Date 1976
Size and Medium 1 x 12.7cm open reel spool, Duration: 67' 14".

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