Sound Recordings, Cambridgeshire

Description

[Collector announcement]; May Hard, recorded in Pymore on 13 June 1974; talks about her father's job as a blacksmith, shoes for horses and donkeys, cart repairs, making harrows, repairing/sharpening ploughs; describes the smithy; making harvest tools and mending binders. [Tr. 5] [Collector announcement]; Mr. Hard, recorded in Pymore on 13 June 1974; talks about digging turf to burn during the General Strike of 1926; [collector announcement]; road mending; drove roads; electricity and water supplies in Pymore; bird catching; [collector announcement]; working life; grocer's boy; pig killing and sausage making; serving in the Army, 1914-1918; work on the railways. [Tr. 6] [Collector announcement]; Miriam Cross, recorded in Prickwillow on the 14 June 1974; talks about windmills used to drain the fens; floods in Prickwillow; mother's birthplace; parents' marriage; toll roads to Ely and Littleport; [informant's name announced]; interest in music; organ from Canada; eel catching (gleaving) and eating; eel recipes; pike and bream; describes eel grids to catch eels; skating on the river; skating matches on Welney Washes; ice skates; [informant's name announced]; World War Two and the crash of an American plane in the village in 1935. [Tr. 7] [Collector announcement]; Ada Walker, recorded in Aldreth on the 15 June 1974; talks about fruit growing; harvest time; land work during World War Two; Ethelreda and Hereward the Wake. [Tr. 8] [Collector announcement]; Bert Peacock, recorded in Aldreth on the 15 June 1974; talks about Aldreth in the past; sporting activities, cycling, cricket and football; baptisms in the River Ouse, c. 1920s; [informant's name announced]; farm work for the Chivers family; women fruit picking; poultry work. [Tr. 9] [Collector announcement]; Tom Burton, recorded in Haddenham on the 15 June 1974; talks about farm work; agricultural labourers' wages; the cost of land; changing farming practices; butter making; harvesting, horse power and mechanisation; hours of work; mowing by hand; ditching; threshing; wages; costs; accommodation. [Tr. 1] [Collector announcement]; Stan Burgess, recorded in Haddenham on the 15 June 1974; talks about being evacuated from his home during a fen flood; flood damage; working with horses - ploughing, harrowing, drilling, hoeing, rolling, carting sugar beet; threshing; horse keeping, feeding, characters; stopping a horse; breaking a horse in. [Tr. 2] [Collector announcement]; Wilfrid Markwell, recorded in Haddenham on the 15 June 1974; talks about his interest in horticulture and flower growing; nursery apprentice in 1926; growing geraniums; own business; Haddenham as flower growing centre; [informant's name announced]; the tasks of the apprentice nurseryman; training (practical and theory). [Tr. 3] [Collector announcement]; Herbert Powell, recorded in Sutton on the 17 June 1974; talks about Sutton in the past; population growth; annual fairs and feasts; dancing booths; dance lessons; village hall dances in the 1920s and the musical accompaniment; fairs in September and May each year - describes the rides and stalls. [Tr. 4]. Continues on tape LAVC/SRE/A667r. 2 of 15.

Metadata

Identifier n9p6n17h
IRN 414717
Class Mark LAVC/SRE/A666r
Level Item
Type of Record Archives - ISAD(G)
Peristent Link http://prototype1.library.leeds.ac.uk/n9p6n17h
Collection(s) Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture
Category Archive
Parent Record Audiotape Sound Recordings
Creator(s) Tammivaara, Irmeli
Date June 1974
Size and Medium 1 x 12.7cm open reel spool, Duration: 87' 40".

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