Survey of English Dialects recording in Fletching, Sussex

Description

[Side 1] Mr Bellingham talks about harvesting different crops, describes mowing wheat with 'swap' [= reaping hook for cutting crops close to ground] and explains how to 'shock up' [= set group of sheaves upright in field for drying], comments 'pikeys' [= gypsies] often helped, describes mowing oats in 'swaths' [= row], explains how to build stack to allow air in and heat out by placing 'poke' [= sack] full of straw in middle and building round it to create flue, describes typical day threshing. [Side 2] Mr Bellingham describes traditional oast-house, explains use of smokeless coal and 'brimstone' [= sulphur] in processing hops, talks about hop-picking gangs, recalls farm worker employed to tread hops, describes traditional wiillow hop-bushel, explains practive of drawing lots for stand in hop-garden, recalls helping mother pick hops as young child, describes annual cycle in hop farming, comments hop farming in decline locally.

Metadata

Identifier dbtk5csc
IRN 726675
Class Mark LAVC/SRE/D/2/D296
Level Item
Type of Record Archives - ISAD(G)
Peristent Link http://prototype1.library.leeds.ac.uk/dbtk5csc
Collection(s) Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture
Category Archive
Parent Record English Dialect Sound Recordings (England and Wales)
Date Jun 1959
Size and Medium [Side 1] 04 min. 54 sec., [Side 2] 04 min. 56 sec.

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