Sound Recordings, Powys
Description
Bert Williams, recorded in Builth Wells [undated]; talks about the town as it was in his youth; describes various buildings, including a gatehouse, temperance houses, cattle market, brewery, Masonic Hall, the Territorial Army, butchers; his first job at a bakers; the tailor; first motorbike seen in the town; pubs and hotels; blacksmiths; working life, including bakers, looking after ponies, bottle washing at a brewery; work at a sawmill - goods made, working day described, wages; the town and visitors to the wells; the Buffalo Bill show coming to town; leisure time - games and sport; working days at the bakers; taking a horse and waggon to/from sawmill; work on the railway; age and health; bottling river water for visitors to the wells. [Tr. 1] Mr. Hughes, recorded in Llananno [undated]; talks about fires and fireplaces, and the use of turf/peat fuel; grandmother's cooking; side ovens, fuelled by gorse and brushwood; women's work within the farmhouse; farm labourers, casual labour, peddlers; wages and food; small farmers and bartering labour for goods; pig and chicken keeping; pig killing; curing bacon in salt; Moelfre City; the building of small farms and enclosure of common land; clod houses; stone breaking; walking to markets and hirings; (breeding) ponies - Welsh Cob and Welsh Mountain; farming - mostly sheep and cattle; lambing; discuss local dialect and its development [tape ends]. [Tr. 2]
Metadata
| Identifier | p9d1cpk6 |
| IRN | 414883 |
| Class Mark | LAVC/SRE/A832r |
| Level | Item |
| Type of Record | Archives - ISAD(G) |
| Peristent Link | http://prototype1.library.leeds.ac.uk/p9d1cpk6 |
| Collection(s) | Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture |
| Category | Archive |
| Parent Record | Audiotape Sound Recordings |
| Creator(s) | Ellis, Stanley, Parry, David |
| Date | [1960s] |
| Size and Medium | 1 x 17.8cm open reel spool, Duration: 64' 48". |