Sound Recordings, Kent
Description
[Collector announcement]; Frank Osbourne, recorded in Goudhurst in November 1958; talks about his working hours on the farm/land with horses; his agricultural labourer's wage of fourteen shillings a week at the age of sixteen; road mending and wages; running out waste bands and tying them on in hop gardens as a boy aged eight and nine; mother hop tying also; father's wage; punishment for being late to school; taking horses to a forge for shoeing; harness/horse cleaning; driving three plough horses at the age of eight; no leisure time; describes round/foot ploughs, and ploughing technique. [Tr. 1] [Collector announcement]; William Ostler, recorded in Stoke in September 1958; talks about ploughing with horses; names parts of plough and attachments; ploughing technique; raising/lowering the plough; refers to a Kent plough; Kent sheep; seeing the ship Great Eastern; decline in sheep farming on the Isle of Grain; sheep shearing and wages; potato-growing on the Isle of Grain; later development in market gardening, corn-growing (produce transported to London); decline in small-scale cow-keeping and milk production; tractor ploughing; working with farm horses; pig-keeping; lighting (candles); local school; cow-keeping and price of milk; describes a farmhouse; talk of harvesting, haystacks and haymaking; thatching stacks; loss of village wheelwright and blacksmith; visiting sawyers and shoe-turners to the village; waggoning corn; horsemen changing jobs on Michaelmas Day (October 11th); parish bread. [Tr. 2]
Metadata
| Identifier | k7936zt1 |
| IRN | 414858 |
| Class Mark | LAVC/SRE/A807r |
| Level | Item |
| Type of Record | Archives - ISAD(G) |
| Peristent Link | http://prototype1.library.leeds.ac.uk/k7936zt1 |
| Collection(s) | Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture |
| Category | Archive |
| Parent Record | Audiotape Sound Recordings |
| Creator(s) | Barry, Michael V |
| Date | 1958 |
| Size and Medium | 1 x 12.7cm open reel spool, Duration: 57' 07". |