Sound Recordings, Lincolnshire

Description

Compilation of Survey of English Dialects fieldwork recordings (copies) for Lincolnshire locations 10L4-15. The original recordings were made in 1952, 1953, 1960 and 1967. The date when this copy tape was made is not known. [Collector announcement]; Alf Bateman, a retired farm foreman, recorded in Willoughton; relates anecdotes concerning falling in manure and stacking corn. [Tr. 5] [Collector announcement]; Frederick Ogg, a retired farm worker, and William Banks, a retired farmer, recorded in Tealby; talk about agricultural labouring; hours of work; flour deliveries by waggon; eating cattle cake. [Tr. 6] [Announcement]; Mr. W. Brothwell, a farmer, recorded in Wragby; talks about calving; jobs for a farm lad; farm horses; the weather and winter of 1947. [Tr. 7] [Announcement]; Bill Burnett, a retired farm labourer, recorded in Swaby; talks about agricultural labouring; ploughing; daily wage; taking sheep to Louth; a farm fire. [Tr. 8] [Collector announcement]; Arthur Parker, a retired blacksmith, recorded in Old Bolingbroke; talks about his apprenticeship; trades in the village of the past, compared with the present; mechanisation; making harrows; first job at Horncastle - wages, cost of living; changes in farming - mechanisation. [Tr. 9] [Collector announcement]; Charles Fox, a retired farm labourer, recorded in his home in Scopwick; relates an anecdote concerning the raising of the runt in a litter of piglets by his father. [Tr. 10] [Collector announcement]; George Hunt, a retired farm labourer, recorded in his home in Beckingham; talks about pig killing; shooting; fishing; and describes the building of a haystack. [Tr. 11] [Collector announcement]; Horace Palethorpe, a retired coal man; talks about the parson of Fulbeck; starting to bell ring in 1892, and an incident regarding pay in 1909. [Tr. 12] [Collector announcement]; Sam Johnson, a retired farm worker, recorded in Sutterton; talks about running hares for shooting; pig feeding; a pub fight. [Tr. 13] [Collector announcement]; George Ellis, a farm foreman, and Mrs. Paling, recorded in Swinstead; talk about pig killing; schooling; farm work; dancing (pubs, barns) during Swinstead Feast; paying the accordion player at dances; names places of work/employers; Mr. Ellis a foreman on an estate at Swinstead. [Tr. 14] [Collector announcement]; Dick Needham, a retired farmer, and Mrs. Needham, recorded in Lutton; talk about their early married life; German prisoners of war dyke building during World War One. [Tr. 15] [Collector announcement]; Bill Chapman, a farm labourer, recorded in his home in Crowland; talks about pig breeding/selling and potato growing. [Tr. 16]

Metadata

Identifier pkkjncvv
IRN 414778
Class Mark LAVC/SRE/A727r
Level Item
Type of Record Archives - ISAD(G)
Peristent Link http://prototype1.library.leeds.ac.uk/pkkjncvv
Collection(s) Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture
Category Archive
Parent Record Audiotape Sound Recordings
Creator(s) Ellis, Stanley, Tilling, Philip M, Barry, Michael V
Date [1967-1980]
Size and Medium 1 x 7.6cm open reel spool, Duration: 79' 01".

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