Sound Recording, North Yorkshire
Description
Male and female [?students] interview an unidentified blacksmith in Glaisdale; who describes making horseshoes and fitting a new shoe to a horse (shoeing); describes a horseshoe, and compares shoeing cart horses and race horses; relates incidents shoeing difficult horses; time taken to shoe a horse, normally about one hour; working hours; apprentice at fourteen; earning two pounds a year in 1908/1909, aged seventeen; working at Grosmont Ironstone Mine as a blacksmith (making rails and picks); talks about how quoits are made (informant didn't make them himself); making his own horseshoes - gives dimensions and describes the process of making one; non-slip shoes for horses working steep inclines; charges for shoeing ponies and heavy horses; shows current list of charges (forty shillings for a farm horse); gives the Yorkshire term for a scythe, and describes the implement and its use for mowing.
Metadata
| Identifier | hyhdcgt3 |
| IRN | 414659 |
| Class Mark | LAVC/SRE/A608r |
| Level | Item |
| Type of Record | Archives - ISAD(G) |
| Peristent Link | http://prototype1.library.leeds.ac.uk/hyhdcgt3 |
| Collection(s) | Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture |
| Category | Archive |
| Parent Record | Audiotape Sound Recordings |
| Creator(s) | Whitney, Norman F |
| Date | [1961/1962] |
| Size and Medium | 1 x 12.7cm open reel spool, Duration: 21' 40". |