Dialect recording in Holdenby, Northamptonshire
Description
[Side 1] Mr Manning demonstrates instructions given to horses, considers ploughing with horses preferable to ploughing with tractors, compares harvesting now and in past, describes progression form 'sailor' [= apparatus for gathering cut corn] to 'self-binder' [= machine for reaping and binding corn into sheaves automatically] and combine harvester. [Side 2] Mr Manning describes how to 'lay' hedge [= intertwine branches of brushwood to form/repair hedge], discusses implements used incl. 'bill-hook' [= thick knife with hooked end used for pruning/cutting brushwood], comments ditches not maintained as well as in past. Continued from 1LL0015111 S2.
Metadata
| Identifier | gn7x8y49 |
| IRN | 726751 |
| Class Mark | LAVC/SRE/D/2/D379 |
| Level | Item |
| Type of Record | Archives - ISAD(G) |
| Peristent Link | http://prototype1.library.leeds.ac.uk/gn7x8y49 |
| Collection(s) | Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture |
| Category | Archive |
| Parent Record | English Dialect Sound Recordings (England and Wales) |
| Creator(s) | Smart, Jeanette |
| Date | 24 Mar 1951 |
| Size and Medium | [Side 1] 03 min. 16 sec., [Side 2] 04 min. 04 sec. |