Sound Recordings, Devon
Description
[Collector announcement]; Thomas Wright, recorded at home in South Zeal; talks about ploughing with horses from the age of twelve; transporting people and other loads by horse and cart; wages; wrestling and wrestlers (Cornish copper miners); football; hunting and foxhounds; tenant farming and farm/house rents; changes in farming and the introduction of new crops after the [?First World] War; turf-cutting for fuel on Dartmoor; changes in transport; age of informant's house (1500s); sale of the parish in 1912; Dartmoor ponies; sheep farming and bullocks on Dartmoor; farmers' subsidies; the Army and issues of access to Dartmoor; sheep and cattle subsidies; problems with livestock coming down off the moor. [Tr. 6] [Collector announcement]; James Weare, recorded in Kenn; talks about work on the farm at lambing time; cider and cider-making, strength, drinking, price; agricultural labourers' wages; ploughing with horses; playing cricket; winters; informant's cottage; hedging - method, and tools used; pubs and opening hours; ploughing with horses; use of scythes; firkins of cider carried by farmworkers; pipe smoking. [Tr. 7]
Metadata
| Identifier | jfq8ygrm |
| IRN | 414870 |
| Class Mark | LAVC/SRE/A819r |
| Level | Item |
| Type of Record | Archives - ISAD(G) |
| Peristent Link | http://prototype1.library.leeds.ac.uk/jfq8ygrm |
| Collection(s) | Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture |
| Category | Archive |
| Parent Record | Audiotape Sound Recordings |
| Creator(s) | Ellis, Stanley, Wakelin, Martyn F |
| Date | 1 April 1963 |
| Size and Medium | 1 x 17.8cm open reel spool, Duration: 40' 55". |