Sound Recordings, Lincolnshire

Description

Harry Osgodby, recorded at South Ferriby ; relates a number of anecdotes concerning his working life (road work, harvesting); talks about working with horses, and describes a working day. [Tr. 7] Male informant gives biographical information; makes reference to schooling at Waddingham; first job as bird scarer; other jobs in South Kelsey, Cadney, Croxton and Bonby; marriage; work on drains in Bonby and Ferriby Sluice (aged 23 to 70); family; farm working at Winterton Carrs and Worlaby during World War One; seeing an aeroplane for the first time; Sunday School; wedding anniversary trip to Cleethorpes; agricultural hirings [?location] and wages; tending cows; fishing; making dyking tools - use of willow; tools made for dredgers, qualities of willow; other tools made and prices charged. [Tr. 8] Male informant describes his work with pigs, and with a pigman in Louth; describes other farm work, including stacking, hedging (piece work), cart driving; work with a horse breaker, breaking horses in with a cart; selling pigs at market; thacking. [Tr. 9] [? Billy Walker] talks about going to school in Worlaby in 1876; farm work; agricultural wages; marriage; farming at [? East Halton] - farm and conditions; farm work at Burnham and Saxby All Saints; freehouse at Worlaby; childhood friend; death and the afterlife; anecdotes re. marbles and an Irishman. [Tr. 10] 5 of 8.

Metadata

Identifier p8b9m43t
IRN 414606
Class Mark LAVC/SRE/A555r
Level Item
Type of Record Archives - ISAD(G)
Peristent Link http://prototype1.library.leeds.ac.uk/p8b9m43t
Collection(s) Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture
Category Archive
Parent Record Audiotape Sound Recordings
Creator(s) Haldenby, Cynthia
Date August 1958
Size and Medium 1 x 7.6cm open reel spool, Duration: 46' 13".

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