Sound Recordings, Wiltshire
Description
Ernest Packer, recorded in Ashton Keynes in July 1957; talks about his first job, driving a farm waggon at the age of ten; stable work harnessing horses; wages; thoughts on modern farming methods (ploughing); working hours; school; family and house; the vicar's role in the village; Bible meetings; summer outings with the Bible class to Portsmouth; [recording level drops]; children's games; whip and top season (Spring); Cirencester Mop Fair (October); [recording level increases]; cider making; thoughts on the olden days; cattle farming. [Tr. 3] Unidentified male, recorded by Stanley Ellis and John Wright [location not given]; talks about foxes and badgers killing voles; mole catching - describes a mole trap; selling moleskins in 1914. [Tr. 4] Herbert Watts, recorded in Steeple Ashton; talks about his first job on leaving school, at the Westbury Iron Works; thoughts on work and the village in the past; working with horses; buying a horse and checking its condition; carting (coal) from Radstock, using a four-wheeled waggon; reaping and mowing by hand; thoughts on modern farming; ploughing; carting and drawing manure; Blue Club spree (Whit Monday) - procession, church service and dinner; drinking and fighting; Gypsy Traveller communities; family; agricultural labourers' wages; women agricultural labourers; a fire in the village; anecdotes re. a local resident. [Tr. 5] Unidentified male, recorded by Stanley Ellis and John Wright [location not given]; talks about drystone walling; family sizes. [Tr. 6]
Metadata
| Identifier | f6v2wjk9 |
| IRN | 414852 |
| Class Mark | LAVC/SRE/A801r |
| Level | Item |
| Type of Record | Archives - ISAD(G) |
| Peristent Link | http://prototype1.library.leeds.ac.uk/f6v2wjk9 |
| Collection(s) | Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture |
| Category | Archive |
| Parent Record | Audiotape Sound Recordings |
| Creator(s) | Wright, John T, Ellis, Stanley |
| Date | 1957 |
| Size and Medium | 1 x 17.8cm open reel spool, Duration: 51' 52". |