Sound Recording, West Yorkshire
Description
Benjamin Harrison, recorded in Farnley; talks about his working life, including work in a coal yard, coal deliveries, working with horses; harvest time; farm labourers' food; work during the summer time; offer of a job by an unidentified Squire; milk deliveries and hours of work. Lack of unemployment and choosing work; retirement; local buildings - extant/ demolished, changes in usage; [church] schooling (part-time); pig keeping and killing in winter; curing bacon; local mills; changes to the local area; local pronunciation of cow close; winters and adjustment of horseshoes in slippy conditions; recollections of the winter of 1947; local blacksmiths; Mr. Harrison's waggon and its maintenance; recreation - cricket, the Institute (billiards, dominoes, reading room); Wortley Club; Armley Cricket Club; local football; Farnley parish.
Metadata
| Identifier | pcn2pbs1 |
| IRN | 414825 |
| Class Mark | LAVC/SRE/A774r |
| Level | Item |
| Type of Record | Archives - ISAD(G) |
| Peristent Link | http://prototype1.library.leeds.ac.uk/pcn2pbs1 |
| Collection(s) | Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture |
| Category | Archive |
| Parent Record | Audiotape Sound Recordings |
| Creator(s) | Ellis, Stanley, Outhwaite, Paul N |
| Date | October 1963 |
| Size and Medium | 1 x 17.8cm open reel spool, Duration: 37' 00". |