Sound Recording, Buckinghamshire
Description
Francis Hutt, recorded in Horton; talks about building and thatching corn stacks; clipping hedges; market gardening; milk round with pony - first job, aged eleven; carters' wages; ploughing and horse harnesses; the farmhouse, including the bakehouse; barley; harvesting with a delivery binder; carts and vans; new houses in the village; the use of dung as a fertilizer; farm labour; working day and the jobs undertaken; cattle fair at Colnbrook; the Water Board, reservoirs and the reduction of land for cattle; gravel extraction; soil quality; modern farm buildings; wartime and the Royal Air Force search lights; flooding in 1914; threshing; trussing straw; haymaking; threshing machine and threshers' gang; modern farm labour; delivery of produce, past and present; horse vans; Covent Garden Market and his family's stall.
Metadata
| Identifier | hsd9wcjg |
| IRN | 414887 |
| Class Mark | LAVC/SRE/A836r |
| Level | Item |
| Type of Record | Archives - ISAD(G) |
| Peristent Link | http://prototype1.library.leeds.ac.uk/hsd9wcjg |
| Collection(s) | Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture |
| Category | Archive |
| Parent Record | Audiotape Sound Recordings |
| Creator(s) | Tilling, Philip M, Barry, Michael V |
| Date | 1967 |
| Size and Medium | 1 x 12.7cm open reel spool, Duration: 20' 45". |