Sound Recordings, Salop, Cheshire and Staffordshire

Description

Mr. R. Morris, recorded in Llanymynech (Salop) on the 26 September 1966; talks about types of plough; waggoners; ploughing (matches); corn stacks; haymaking - use of horse mower, turning, making cocks, double pitching; the devil (tool for loading hay onto a waggon); thatching stacks (technique); thatchers; thatching house roofs; harvest suppers; farm waggons (various types); farm carts (including the tumbril) and uses. [Tr. 1] Stephen Morris, recorded in Hanmer (Flintshire) on the 23 September 1966; talks about ploughs and ploughing; building corn stacks and thatching tops; thatching tools; hay cutting with a horse mower; turning the hay with a horse rake; making ?coils; pitching; farm work, including milking; seasonal agricultural jobs; wages paid to labourers by Mr. Morris' father; describes the method of cheesemaking; selling the cheese; pig killing; curing ham/bacon; farm mechanisation (milking machines); involvement in village life (Church Council); changes in the village (industry, people); overseeing rates collection in [unidentified]. William Beddow, recorded in Prees (Salop) on the 23 September 1966; talks about ploughs and ploughing; reference to ploughs used in Wales; setting up the field; thatched corn stacks; working days on the farm; farm wages; haymaking; describes a barn interior; farm mechanisation; engines and their use in farming; the village; waggons and carts; the village blacksmith; making lime; hedging; crops grown locally; pig killing and processing, curing with salt; the fireplace and range; bread oven; mechanisation of milking; May Day horse fair at Llanymynech. [Tr. 3] Harry Griffiths, recorded in Audlem (Cheshire) on the 23 September 1966; talks about (horse) fairs in the village, and also the sale of livestock; a ropemaker and rope walk; waggons and deliveries; transport (railway, bus and car); school; working on the railway (wages, working day); hay stacks; thatching; crops grown locally; serving with the Glamorgan Horse Artillery during World War One; active service in France (the Somme) and Italy; Armistice Day. [Tr. 4] Fred Smith, recorded in Kynnersley (Shropshire); talks about work on the farm; looking after cattle; milking by hand; ploughing/harvesting with horses; crops; haymaking; the Depression of the 1930s; working for the Council on the roads; retirement; water mill and eel cage; ploughing, including setting up the field; modern farming; working day on the farm; livestock; waggons - wheel position and turning; hay/corn stacks and thatching; Hanmer Oddfellows' Club (meetings). [Tr. 5] Mr. W. Pointon, recorded in Barlaston (Staffordshire); talks about farm waggons; setting up a field for ploughing; potato sowing; describes the process of thatching a stack and a house roof; breaking horses for ploughing; horse fair [?in Barlaston]; Market DraytonDirty Fair (buying/selling horses); changes in the village (size); the village mill; ploughing and other field work - acreage covered per day. [Tr. 6] Unidentified male [location not given] talks about farming with horses and by hand; ploughs and ploughing; farm wages; father's work as a teamsman, his wages and the food he ate; working with a threshing machine; food supplied by the farmer; wages; hay/corn stacks; crops grown; kale; modern farming; [Market] Drayton Dirty Fair; modernisation and mechanisation in farming; milking (by machine/hand); milking competitions; hedge laying; haymaking; mowing with horses. [Tr. 7]

Metadata

Identifier d7788jlv
IRN 414885
Class Mark LAVC/SRE/A834r
Level Item
Type of Record Archives - ISAD(G)
Peristent Link http://prototype1.library.leeds.ac.uk/d7788jlv
Collection(s) Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture
Category Archive
Parent Record Audiotape Sound Recordings
Creator(s) Barry, Michael V
Date 1966
Size and Medium 1 x 12.7cm open reel spool, Duration: 91' 14".

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