Sound Recordings, Hertfordshire and Cambridgeshire
Description
Male informant, recorded in Therfield; talks about ploughing with horses; the self-binder; horse-driven threshing machine; storing corn, and selling at [?Royston] Corn Exchange; taking wheat to mill for grinding; livestock; pig killing and bacon curing (smoking in chimney mother's technique); harvest time - working day, beer, food, snacks; farm wages; blacksmith's work; working day with horses; carting corn; ploughing with horses; hedge laying. [Tr. 6] Thomas Heaps, recorded in Little Downham; talks about drinking water and ill health; high tides, flooding and the strengthening of river banks; The Wash and flooding; past winters and skating on the river/washes; skating matches and prizes; severe winters and affect on farm work; skates and champion skaters at Littleport. [Tr. 7]
Metadata
| Identifier | jfj6wgnw |
| IRN | 414834 |
| Class Mark | LAVC/SRE/A783r |
| Level | Item |
| Type of Record | Archives - ISAD(G) |
| Peristent Link | http://prototype1.library.leeds.ac.uk/jfj6wgnw |
| Collection(s) | Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture |
| Category | Archive |
| Parent Record | Audiotape Sound Recordings |
| Creator(s) | Ellis, Stanley |
| Date | [1950s] |
| Size and Medium | 1 x 17.8cm open reel spool, Duration: 30' 52". |