Sound Recordings, Cambridgeshire and Essex
Description
Male informant, recorded in Comberton; talks about working on a farm from the age of eleven; his father and his farming; thatchers in the family; informant learning to thatch; describes a day's work; preparation of new thatch; describes technique for laying thatch; life of a good thatch; birds as pests; thatching tools; reed thatching; changes in the village and the disappearance of thatched houses; benefits of a thatched roof; rural depopulation; disappearance of haystacks; mowing fields with scythes; women tying corn; shocking oats, drying out and ripening; threshing with a flail; winters; number of men employed on a typical farm; Suffolk horses; travelling stallions. [Tr. 8] Herbert Metson, recorded in Doddinghurst; talks about his father's farm; stallions; threshing corn with a flail; horse breeding, breaking and selling; ploughing with horses; measuring widths for drilling/ploughing; number of horses used and their positions; ridging (for potato growing); commands to horses; agricultural employment; farm cottages; changes in the village, roads and traffic; maintenance of carts; changes in farming - more dairy herds; tractors; [informant states name, address and age]. [Tr. 1]
Metadata
| Identifier | hrxst5cg |
| IRN | 414835 |
| Class Mark | LAVC/SRE/A784r |
| Level | Item |
| Type of Record | Archives - ISAD(G) |
| Peristent Link | http://prototype1.library.leeds.ac.uk/hrxst5cg |
| Collection(s) | Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture |
| Category | Archive |
| Parent Record | Audiotape Sound Recordings |
| Creator(s) | Ellis, Stanley |
| Date | [1961] |
| Size and Medium | 1 x 17.8cm open reel spool, Duration: 48' 34". |