Sound Recordings, Bedfordshire

Description

Joe Brimm and his wife, Mrs. Joe Brimm, recorded in Dunton; talk about a local road to Dunton Lodge; thatching a haystack and a wheatcock, the clothing (knee pads) worn and implements used; using a testing iron to see if a haystack is heating up; potato storage (pitting); shop boy leading the horses pulling harvest waggons; leaving school and starting work ploughing; describes a straw twister; planting potatoes (dibbing); sowing corn by hand (broadcasting); talk of ?rabbies (similar to a turnip); describes the pulping of mangel-wurzles; the weather and the effect of wet on apple and turnip crops; seasonal workers picking peas; farming in the area; soil type. [Tr. 1] Billy Bartle of Wrestlingworth [copy of an original recording made by Fred Hamer in the ?1960s]; talks about an unidentified song he heard as a boy in a pub; recites some of the words to 'John Barleycorn', and sings a fragment; sings 'All Jolly Fellows that Follow the Plough'; unidentified whistle tune; [ Harry Humberstone] sings [unidentified], joined by group for chorus; [ Charlie Young] sings [ 'Widecombe Fair']. [Tr. 2] Wally Papworth of Sutton; talks about working for a Billy Underwood; leaving school aged 13/14; the family home and family members; lists past village vicars; lists farms on the Sutton estate; underground passage from the Manor House to the church [referred to by the collector]; Sutton Park Golf Club; golf on Biggleswade Common; the family house and its fire grate; lists inhabitants of cottages in the village (since demolished); pig killing; thoughts on the good old days; music appreciation (accordion playing); career as a carpenter; the local tanyard; Billy Bartle, But Humberstone, Charlie Bates and the Bates family; pubs in the village; Mr. Papworth's son. [Tr. 3] Mr. Hubbinger, Mrs. Hubbinger and Charlie Brittain, recorded in the John of Gaunt pub in Sutton in November 1960; talk about Wally Papworth; local men taking part in Kitchener's Parade (pub visiting in Potton); Sir John Hare, local landowner (and ?MP); thoughts on the young generation; discussion of an armed robbery. [Tr. 4] In the case of the Wrestlingworth and Sutton recordings, both are referred to on the collector's tape card as a joint recording [?with Fred Hamer]. Tape 6. [6 of 8].

Metadata

Identifier	gkjjcs1x
IRN	414802
Class Mark	LAVC/SRE/A751r
Level	Item
Type of Record	Archives - ISAD(G)
Peristent Link	http://prototype1.library.leeds.ac.uk/gkjjcs1x
Collection(s)	Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture
Category	Archive
Parent Record	Audiotape Sound Recordings
Creator(s)	Shaw, David H
Date	1960
Size and Medium	1 x 17.8cm open reel spool, Duration: 112' 10".

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