Sound Recordings, Derbyshire
Description
An interview recorded in the farmhouse of William Eliot. Mr. Eliot talks about the village of Derwent before the building of the Howden, Derwent and Ladybower reservoirs; livestock; local farms; the moorland he owns; land belonging to the National Trust; his home; his mother; the tape machine being used to record him; [gap]; recent boxing match involving Muhammad Ali; livestock and the quality of the local soil; the weather and the winter of 1947; isolation and the distance from Bamford; local transport before buses; carrier's cart to Sheffield; the Dore and Chinley railway line; going to Bamford; gardening; drystone walling; sheep farming; his wife and her help working on the land; playing the violin; more on the boxing match; local postman; travel to/around Mr. Eliot's home. [Tr. 3] Jim Belfield, recorded in Burbage; talks about his farm, its acreage and the livestock he owns; tractors replacing horses on the farm; Burbage of the past, and changes after the [?Second] war; family connections with the village; first school in the village, paid for by the Duke of Devonshire; local quarries and the transportation of lime by horses to the canal; working life on the farm; Army service during World War One; old Burbagers; sister living in Canada; Mr. Needham (Burbage resident); farming in America; local Dutchman thought to be a spy; German wartime defenses off the coast of France. [Tr. 4]
Metadata
| Identifier | jm1xf5zt |
| IRN | 414895 |
| Class Mark | LAVC/SRE/A844r |
| Level | Item |
| Type of Record | Archives - ISAD(G) |
| Peristent Link | http://prototype1.library.leeds.ac.uk/jm1xf5zt |
| Collection(s) | Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture |
| Category | Archive |
| Parent Record | Audiotape Sound Recordings |
| Creator(s) | Siporin, Rae Lee |
| Date | 1965 |
| Size and Medium | 1 x 10cm open reel spool, Duration: 44' 18". |