Sound Recordings, Cornwall
Description
[Collector announcement]; William Rickards, recorded in Egloshayle; talks about farmwork on leaving school; wages; quarry work after World War One; working with his father in his flour mill, and then running it after his death; describes the flour milling process; dressing mill stones; charges for milling and carriage; shutting down the water wheel and collecting fish [from the mill pond]; poaching; fishing rights and the water bailiffs; family's involvement in the mill, before his father took ownership; the village - population, fife and drum band, celebrations at the end of the Boer War and the Relief of Mafeking; poaching rabbits; local Gypsy Traveller communities; childhood tricks and mischief; Guy Fawkes Night and rolling barrels of flaming tar through the village; local man (traditional healer) and his reputation. [Tr. 3] Richard Pearce of Gwinear answers a selection of questions from Book IX (States, Actions, Relations) of the Dieth-Orton dialect survey questionnaire. [Tr. 4]
Metadata
| Identifier | kbh55j1l |
| IRN | 414855 |
| Class Mark | LAVC/SRE/A804r |
| Level | Item |
| Type of Record | Archives - ISAD(G) |
| Peristent Link | http://prototype1.library.leeds.ac.uk/kbh55j1l |
| Collection(s) | Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture |
| Category | Archive |
| Parent Record | Audiotape Sound Recordings |
| Creator(s) | Wright, John T |
| Date | 24 November 1958 |
| Size and Medium | 1 x 17.8cm open reel spool, Duration: 81' 02". |