Sound Recording, [Devon]
Description
Mr. Woodman [?recorded in the garden of his home, in Honiton] talks about the dry weather; a flood two years previously; vegetable gardening; farm work and working hours [tape runs fast to this point, and then normalises]; fruit and vegetable growing; weatherlore re. wind direction; working with land maids (i.e. Women's Land Army) during World War Two. Mr. Woodman continues with talk of hedge laying (explains the technique); agricultural working hours; labourers' holidays (Union involvement in securing holidays with pay); farm workers' pay; thoughts on drop in numbers pursuing farming as a career. 5 of 11.
Metadata
| Identifier | msj5dqfy |
| IRN | 414749 |
| Class Mark | LAVC/SRE/A698r |
| Level | Item |
| Type of Record | Archives - ISAD(G) |
| Peristent Link | http://prototype1.library.leeds.ac.uk/msj5dqfy |
| Collection(s) | Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture |
| Category | Archive |
| Parent Record | Audiotape Sound Recordings |
| Creator(s) | Panheinen, Ossi |
| Date | [1970] |
| Size and Medium | 1 x 12.7cm open reel spool, Duration: 61' 05". |