Sound Recordings, Suffolk
Description
[Collector announcement]; Herbert Miles, a retired farmworker, recorded in his home in Helmingham on the 28 July 1971 ; talks about farm work (as a boy); wages; farm horses; thoughts on past and present; harvest time; the wages of a Second Horseman; Suffolk horses; sheep shearing and dipping; ploughmen and ploughing; horses' feed (bait); winter work on the farm; schooldays; father; heavy land; the effect of bad weather on crops; harvest work, mowing, threshing, women's involvement; wages; holidays/days off; brewing beer; Fourses (rum and tea at four o'clock for workers); haymaking; farmworkers and employment from farm to farm; horseman's dress; ploughs (wood/iron); Helmingham village; Suffolk dialect. [Tr. 4] [Collector announcement]; Mr. Lambert, a farmworker, recorded at home in Helmingham on the 1 August 1971; talks about his working life; farmers; Suffolk and cross-breed horses; ploughing matches; farm modernisation and mechanisation; cattle and arable farming; comments on old farming methods; ploughing matches; clay soil; trees and hedges; ploughing and ploughmen; meals/breaks; commands to horses; Suffolk dialect; comments on people from Norfolk and Essex; four course crop rotation; wages; days off/holidays; sheep markets; work clothes; poaching; shooting parties; haymaking and thatching stacks; the weather; harvest bonus and suppers; Christmas food; hens (breeds and qualities); decline of livestock and poultry in Suffolk; changes in farming. [Tr. 1] 2 of 7.
Metadata
| Identifier | k6c7tbm4 |
| IRN | 414788 |
| Class Mark | LAVC/SRE/A737r |
| Level | Item |
| Type of Record | Archives - ISAD(G) |
| Peristent Link | http://prototype1.library.leeds.ac.uk/k6c7tbm4 |
| Collection(s) | Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture |
| Category | Archive |
| Parent Record | Audiotape Sound Recordings |
| Creator(s) | Pasanen, Leena |
| Date | July-August 1971 |
| Size and Medium | 1 x 17.8cm open reel spool, Duration: 83' 54". |