Sound Recording, Cumbria
Description
[Collector announcement]; Edward Blamire, recorded at home in Patterdale ; talks about his work as a gardener at Patterdale Hall; describes the kitchen gardens, lawns and staff; the gardens in later years; current gardening work, including fencing and walling; local sheep farming; Swaledale and Herdwick sheep; local dialect; the dale community; lead mining in the area; local tarn bursting banks and flooding Glenridding valley in 1927; water supply to the lead mines; Ullswater fox hounds and other packs in the area; thoughts on hunting with dogs; Kendal and District otter hounds; deer and fox hunting; snow and winters in the area; water supply to Penrith; informant's working life, including farm work; Patterdale Hall now a YMCA holiday centre; farm subsidies and local sheep farming; grandchildren; local school and changes; school dinners then and now; family. Further talk of family; tourists in the Lake District and the local Glenridding area; Mountain Rescue service; local Youth Hostels; the weather; recollections of a mountain search in Dollywagon Gully [near Dollywagon Pike]; Striding Edge; dangers of hill walking and importance of good footwear; shows a pair of clogs (quarry corkers) worn by lead miners; duck-nibbed clogs; repairing/buying clogs; clog-wearing by schoolchildren and mill workers; use of dubbin/harness oil to maintain the leather; wellington boots; talks of Airedale Beagles and huntmaster Robin Teesdale; names local huntsmen.
Metadata
| Identifier | ntfmfvd2 |
| IRN | 414904 |
| Class Mark | LAVC/SRE/A853r |
| Level | Item |
| Type of Record | Archives - ISAD(G) |
| Peristent Link | http://prototype1.library.leeds.ac.uk/ntfmfvd2 |
| Collection(s) | Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture |
| Category | Archive |
| Parent Record | Audiotape Sound Recordings |
| Creator(s) | Upton, Clive S |
| Date | 20 May 1974 |
| Size and Medium | 1 x 12.7cm open reel spool, Duration: 96' 29". |