Sound Recordings, Wiltshire
Description
Mr. Hitchcock, recorded in Netheravon; talks about his parents; Ernest Kent; the pronunciation of the words gate and post [Orton questions]; ploughing; the pronunciation of the word horses; Orton questions re. yoking horses; greetings; the words for ground/dirt, animals - mice, vole, rat, mole; Kylstra questions re. roof eaves; the words door and key; curing bacon; parts of a pig; chapped hands; bullocks for ploughing; cart shafts and wheels; parts of wooden plough; parts of a scythe; describes a flail for threshing; corn; peas and beans; grass cutting - hay cocks, ricks, rick-making; brick/stone laying; domestic lighting. [Tr. 3] Ernest Packer, recorded in Ashton Keynes; [first thirty seconds inaudible]; pronunciation of words for shoes and boots; talks about his father's job as a stonemason; Mr. Packer's first farm job as the age of nine and a half; talk of gateposts; crops; mowing grass with horses; cutting corn by hand, tying sheaves, stooks, by waggon to rick; thatching a rick; scythes; father mowing by hand; Bible classes; local Reading Room; molecatching; vegetables; apple nogging (scrumping); fox and hounds (childhood game); whip and top; ploughing - describes setting a field; using a wooden plough, with no horses; sowing seeds; attaching a horse to a plough; pig killing and dressing, curing and salting; bad bacon; gates and parts of. [Tr. 4]. Continues on tape LAVC/SRE/A797r.
Metadata
| Identifier | jmmssvhs |
| IRN | 414847 |
| Class Mark | LAVC/SRE/A796r |
| Level | Item |
| Type of Record | Archives - ISAD(G) |
| Peristent Link | http://prototype1.library.leeds.ac.uk/jmmssvhs |
| Collection(s) | Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture |
| Category | Archive |
| Parent Record | Audiotape Sound Recordings |
| Creator(s) | Wright, John T, Kylstra, Henk E, Orton, Harold |
| Date | 1960 |
| Size and Medium | 1 x 12.7cm open reel spool, Duration: 73' 08". |