Sound Recordings, Shropshire

Description

[Collector announcement]; William Moore, [?recorded in Albrighton (Shropshire)], talks about his father's haulage business; harvesting; the weather; his father; a motorbike; an anecdote about retrieving a car from a ditch. [Tr. 2] [Collector announcement]; Harry Shinger, recorded in Berrington, talks about cultivating/sowing crops (potatoes, wheat); harrowing; spring/autumn wheat; ploughing method; ploughing with horses/tractors. [Tr. 3] [Collector announcement]; Mrs. Wynn, recorded in Donnington, talks about a schoolmaster and her brothers learning to write; husband's and brother's experiences of World War One; Armistice Day - processions/celebrations in Albrighton and Donnington; her pet cat and dog; the building of a new road; the ?Tong Estate and Lord Bradford/previous owners and tenants. [Tr. 4] [Collector announcement]; Billy Garvey, recorded in Albrighton, talks about [?travellers]; anecdote re. Benjamin Thomas and a travelling clockmender; early memories of childhood; slaughtering pigs at home. [Tr. 5] Billy Garvey talks about children's games; following the hunt; bicycles; the village library and Institute; delivering telegrams; farm wages; childhood games and jobs; Boarding School and Ladies' High School; phonograph; May Day fairs, procession, maypole, tilting the bucket game; Oddfellows' Whit Monday Walk and Fair; importance of the Oddfellows' Societies in times of sickness and unemployment; changes in the standard of living; day trips with the church choir; involvement in choir singing and bell ringing; childhood memories; school and schoolmaster, Christmas party; Empire Day; church and chapel tea parties; Christmas - family, presents, singing, food, carol singing and money collected; day trips to the seaside; trips to Wolverhampton after the harvest (with harvest money); pig killing and meat curing; farmworkers' potato or potato ground allowance; preparing for winter (food, fuel); baking and brewing; pigs; working life (gardening, driving horse and cart, plate laying on the railway, brick laying, gas stoking, work at the Maltings); Benjamin Thomas and travelling clockmender; Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee; celebrations and processions (reference to the Boer War and the Relief of Mafeking); the Territorial Army (Volunteers); George, Duke of York's visit to [?Paddolgreen], c. 1900; mail coaches; stagecoach and horses belonging to Colonel Thornacroft of Wolverhampton. [Tr. 6]

Metadata

Identifier p8r7v2dj
IRN 414600
Class Mark LAVC/SRE/A549r
Level Item
Type of Record Archives - ISAD(G)
Peristent Link http://prototype1.library.leeds.ac.uk/p8r7v2dj
Collection(s) Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture
Category Archive
Parent Record Audiotape Sound Recordings
Creator(s) Hubbard, Wendy E
Date October-November 1958
Size and Medium 1 x 12.7cm open reel spool, Duration: 98' 34".

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