Sound Recording, North Yorkshire
Description
James Ingleby [ Pauline Battersby also present], recorded in Litton; talks about sheep farming; orphan lambs; shepherding; weaning; the size of his farm; cattle and milking; (Wensleydale) cheese and butter making; describes the farmhouse cheesemaking process in full; cheese made in May, sold in September; testing for green cheese; discusses lathes/porches (construction) on his house; describes two and four-wheel carts; mowing rushes/bracken and the use of horse-drawn sledges; farm horses; father hiring Irish labourers at Skipton market - monthly wages then; present farm labourers' wages; mechanisation and the decline in agricultural employment; the weather and bad winters; 1947 and losing sheep to snow sickness (lack of water); lambing time.
Metadata
| Identifier | mhzl2cf6 |
| IRN | 414828 |
| Class Mark | LAVC/SRE/A777r |
| Level | Item |
| Type of Record | Archives - ISAD(G) |
| Peristent Link | http://prototype1.library.leeds.ac.uk/mhzl2cf6 |
| Collection(s) | Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture |
| Category | Archive |
| Parent Record | Audiotape Sound Recordings |
| Creator(s) | Ellis, Stanley |
| Date | November 1962 |
| Size and Medium | 1 x 17.8cm open reel spool, Duration: 32' 28". |