Sound Recordings, Essex
Description
Charlie Manning, recorded in High Easter; talks about driving a milk cart at the age of ten; driving waggons; ploughing; harvest time; community spirit; marking out a field for ploughing; hedging; crops grown locally; riding a horse leading a binder; foot plough (no wheel); reaping; building a stack; school from the age of three; first job and wages at the age of ten; no fairs in the village (nearest in Chelmsford); rabbiting with ferrets; pig killing and drying/smoking; farm buildings; the fireplace; water supply; leisure time - cricket, gardening, wood collecting; farm waggons; local tradespeople - wheelwright, saddler, blacksmith; haymaking. [Tr. 4] Mr. W. H. Whitwell, recorded in Canewdon; talks about farm work with horses; describes ploughing with horses, and the morning routine; drilling corn with four horses (twelve acres a day); carting manure onto fields; wages; accommodation; corn/hay stacks, thatched by thatchers; thrashing machine in September/October, with ten/eleven men (compares with a combine harvester); sack carrying; the changing population in the village; family's four-hundred year old connection with the village; witch legend connected with the church; flooding in 1953; hedge laying; fuel (faggots, coal); fireplaces; smoking and salting bacon; describes the number of staff on a farm in the past; living arrangements for labourers (living in); describes a labourer's daily routine, including work breaks; horse breaking; cart and plough harnesses - names the parts; farm carts and waggons; farm machinery - a one-horse reaper known as a flacker, self binder, steam thrashing machine, steam ploughs; haymaking; stacks; school and discipline, lessons; thatchers; preparing the thatch and the thatching process (for stacks). [Tr. 5]
Metadata
| Identifier | kkrxp76n |
| IRN | 414890 |
| Class Mark | LAVC/SRE/A839r |
| Level | Item |
| Type of Record | Archives - ISAD(G) |
| Peristent Link | http://prototype1.library.leeds.ac.uk/kkrxp76n |
| Collection(s) | Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture |
| Category | Archive |
| Parent Record | Audiotape Sound Recordings |
| Creator(s) | Tilling, Philip M, Barry, Michael V |
| Date | 1967 |
| Size and Medium | 1 x 12.7cm open reel spool, Duration: 48' 26". |