Sound Recording, Devon
Description
[Collector announcement]; Thomas Rippen, recorded in Chawleigh; talks about his age; his homes; working with his father, tying corn, at the age of eight; horse-drawn reaping machine; recollections of last local man to cut corn by hand; threshing; driving horses on a horse wheel, to power a threshing machine; ploughing with horses; farm waggons; sowing corn; yields/quality of corn; sheep farming - care of lambs and ewes; cattle and calving; size of beef herd; milk and dairy products; fireplace/oven - baking bread in an oven fuelled by wood faggots [shows collector the oven]; describes pig-killing, curing in salt and hanging (bacon and hams).
Metadata
| Identifier | hnxlzv59 |
| IRN | 414868 |
| Class Mark | LAVC/SRE/A817r |
| Level | Item |
| Type of Record | Archives - ISAD(G) |
| Peristent Link | http://prototype1.library.leeds.ac.uk/hnxlzv59 |
| Collection(s) | Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture |
| Category | Archive |
| Parent Record | Audiotape Sound Recordings |
| Creator(s) | Ellis, Stanley |
| Date | April 1963 |
| Size and Medium | 1 x 17.8cm open reel spool, Duration: 18' 31". |