Sound Recordings, Devon and Cornwall
Description
[Stanley Ellis announcement]; Samuel Snell, recorded on his farm in Swimbridge; talks about the bad winter of 1962/1963; farming sheep and beef bullocks; Devon Closewool [sheep breed]; discuss sheep farming, lambs, the lambing season and the effect of bad weather (snow); local water supply; changes in farming - working hours, wages, cost of living, mechanisation; farm staff; rented cottage accommodation; water supply to the village installed by the Duke of Bedford; changes in the village; housing (cottages) - flooring and lighting; craftspeople - village blacksmiths, carpenters, shoemakers, tailors; church and chapel burial yards; history of the church; blessing the plough ceremony; wooden ploughs; commands to horses; local gentry; Duke of Bedford; Lord Fortescue; tenant farming and tied cottages. [Tr. 1] [Stanley Ellis announcement]; Richard Heard, recorded in Kilkhampton on the 28 March 1963 [wife and ?daughter also present]; answers a number of questions from the Dieth-Orton (Survey of English Dialects) Questionnaire; talks about leaving school and being out to service, tending bullocks at the age of eleven; hours of work; other jobs, including hedge paring and milking cows; supper at six o'clock (seven days a week) - pay sixpence a day; describes dung collecting and tipping on fields, using a dray; sheep - Longwool breed, shearing, marks; hedge maintenance/strengthening/laying (steeping) - explains the methods and tools used; explains the method of thatching a hay rick with rushes; explains the technique for spinning rope, used to tie up ricks; father corn reaping with a hook, binding and shocking; drinking point for cattle (?hollin/?hollen). [Tr. 2]
Metadata
| Identifier | lthntpsf |
| IRN | 414867 |
| Class Mark | LAVC/SRE/A816r |
| Level | Item |
| Type of Record | Archives - ISAD(G) |
| Peristent Link | http://prototype1.library.leeds.ac.uk/lthntpsf |
| Collection(s) | Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture |
| Category | Archive |
| Parent Record | Audiotape Sound Recordings |
| Creator(s) | Ellis, Stanley, Wakelin, Martyn F |
| Date | March 1963 |
| Size and Medium | 1 x 17.8cm open reel spool, Duration: 44' 56". |