Sound Recordings, Cambridgeshire

Description

[Collector announcement]; Mary Dawson, recorded in Doddington on the 8 July 1974; recollects her childhood in Doddington; marriage; children; skating matches; changes to the village; trandling for birds at night; health; Board of Guardians; pig keeping; meat curing; [collector announcement]; village Feast in September; Hospital Sunday - parade to raise funds for Peterborough Hospital; horse trotting (competition); Sunday School outings; annual gala. [Tr. 3] [Collector announcement]; John Pope, recorded in Doddington on the 8 July 1974 ; talks about changes in the cost of living; the village church (bells); [collector announcement]; crop growing; corn mowing, shocking, stacking, threshing; local cottage accommodation; water supply; stocks and a local judge. [Tr. 4] [Collector announcement]; Lillian Sutton, recorded in Benwick on the 9 July 1974; recollects school days; walking drove roads; the church and Sunday School; lack of books/newspapers pre-World War One; harvest time; making straw bands for parents to use to bind sheaves. [Tr. 5] [Collector announcement]; Harold Sutton [Lillian Sutton's brother] recorded in Benwick on the 9 July 1974; talks about school days; farm work at the age of twelve; ploughing with horses as a fifteen year old; threshing corn; self binder machines; school books [Lillian Sutton talks about the school magazine]; [collector announcement]; May Day - decorated thorn bush paraded around the village; Plough Monday; Straw Bear Tuesday - man dressed in straw; [collector announcement]; Norwegian skates; skating; the flooding of the Washes. [Tr. 6] [Collector announcement]; Thomas Ellington, recorded in Doddington on the 9 July 1974; talks about a tunnel connecting the village Manor House and church, used by monks in the past (local story); local placenames and buildings in the village described; payment of tithes; local buildings and dates. [Collector announcement]; Thomas Ellington talks about village pub names; [collector announcement]; village Fair; Hospital Sunday; agricultural labour - days and hours of work; Sunday School treat (outing to Hunstanton); offences and the use of stocks; [collector announcement]; accommodation. [Tr. 7] [Collector announcement]; William Tall, recorded in Witcham on the 11 July 1974; talks about the village eighty-five years ago; farms and farmers; the Lord of the Manor and land; agricultural wages and hours of work; unemployment and parish support; gleaning; brickyard; village amenities and trades people; women's work on the land; small holdings and subsistence; poaching and trandling for larks with nets; birds' eggs sold to people at Cambridge University; [collector announcement]; cricket team and village matches; Chapel Anniversary gathering; Witcham Church; [collector announcement]; village fire engine; church hall; garden fete. [Tr. 8] [Collector announcement]; Allan Pate, recorded in Witcham on the 11 July 1974; talks about his upbringing; working life farming; village life seventy years ago; entertainment - whist drives, dances; exempted from World War One service; brothers killed; member of the fire service during World War Two; aerodrome; Polish evacuees; farm work; hand labour; first self binder, c. 1920; [collector announcement]; farm horses; tractor driving, 1917; seeing his first car in Ely; motor cycle owned, 1912. [Tr. 9]. Continues on tape LAVC/SRE/A671r. 6 of 15.

Metadata

Identifier d1fdkmsy
IRN 414721
Class Mark LAVC/SRE/A670r
Level Item
Type of Record Archives - ISAD(G)
Peristent Link http://prototype1.library.leeds.ac.uk/d1fdkmsy
Collection(s) Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture
Category Archive
Parent Record Audiotape Sound Recordings
Creator(s) Tammivaara, Irmeli
Date July 1974
Size and Medium 1 x 12.7cm open reel spool, Duration: 92' 55".

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