Sound Recordings, Dorset

Description

Mr. Studley of Broadwindsor talks about the history of his family's farm; type of farming; livestock; recollections of farm work when a child; harvest time and the custom of making sweet hay; haymaking and rick building; cider drinking; [reverse track audible from this point]; thoughts on manual and mechanised labour; describes a hand (hay) rake; cattle herds; hand milking; pig killing; agricultural employment and labourers' wages; describes the method of hedge laying, and the tools used; making faggots for kindling; leisure time; rabbiting and digging for badgers; badger suppers at local pubs; the village's first motor car; transport; vegetable growing; toll roads; describes the buttermaking process; [Broadwindsor] Club Day - church service, dinner, dancing; cider making; shoeing a horse; the postal service; village policeman; thoughts on the past and present, and rural depopulation; working hours; local cloth factory; local newspapers; William Wordsworth. [Tr. 5] Mr. Buglar [?recorded in Beaminster] talks about breeding canaries; rabbiting with ferrets 50 years ago; parish pay; haymaking; condition of the local roads; changes in village life; entertainment; describes a steam-powered threshing machine; Dorset speech, and discussion of nearby villages of Stoke Abbot and Netherbury; the growth of the village(s); the location of Beaminster - staging post for horses pulling coaches; cattle driving; fairs (pleasure and cattle); informant's father a blacksmith (Farrier Sergeant, 1914-1918); schooling and corporal punishment; Sunday School; ferret breeding; goats'/cows' milk; transport; childhood activities. [Tr. 6] 1 of 11.

Metadata

Identifier fh5xs3rq
IRN 414745
Class Mark LAVC/SRE/A694r
Level Item
Type of Record Archives - ISAD(G)
Peristent Link http://prototype1.library.leeds.ac.uk/fh5xs3rq
Collection(s) Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture
Category Archive
Parent Record Audiotape Sound Recordings
Creator(s) Panheinen, Ossi
Date [1970]
Size and Medium 1 x 12.7cm open reel spool, Duration: 88' 48".

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