Survey of English Dialects recording in Netteswell, Essex
Description
[Side 1] Benjamin and Mrs. Coleman discuss farm work, Benjamin describes harvesting and tying sheaves by hand, talks about work as shepherd, describes traditional sickle, compares working conditions now and in past. [Side 2] Benjamin describes 'dressing-machine' [= machine used to separate corn from chaff], describes machines used to remove 'ails' [= awns] from barley prior to malting, unnamed speaker recalls seeing 'frail' [= flail] used, describes using frail to make sample for market, explains how to reap with sickle.
Metadata
| Identifier | m8zg65p7 |
| IRN | 726632 |
| Class Mark | LAVC/SRE/D/2/D253 |
| Level | Item |
| Type of Record | Archives - ISAD(G) |
| Peristent Link | http://prototype1.library.leeds.ac.uk/m8zg65p7 |
| Collection(s) | Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture |
| Category | Archive |
| Parent Record | English Dialect Sound Recordings (England and Wales) |
| Date | 25 Apr 1952 |
| Size and Medium | [Side 1] 04 min. 20 sec., [Side 2] 04 min. 22 sec. |