Sound Recording, North Yorkshire

Description

Myers Johnson, recorded [?at home] in Kettlesing [daughter also present]; gives biographical information and talks about the Dacre parish (his birthplace); closure of local chapels; wartime recollections (World War Two); work for Education Department in Harrogate; educated at Dacre Board School; farm work, lumbering, on leaving school, in British Columbia; describes Canadian people and habits; returned to England and bought a farm in 1920; talks of farming, call up of men for World War One, farm stock; describes his forefathers; talk of wallers, wall heights, types of stone; being a tenant farmer; local family of besom makers; wallers' rates of pay; insurance premiums on farms; Methodist chapel; wallers' assistants; drainage holes in walls; rates of pay; effect of snow on walls; terminology re. tops of walls; learning through practical experience; placement, selection and shaping of stones; [at this point, playback speed changes from 9.5cm to 4.75cm/sec.]; wall ownership and placement of throughs; walling on hills, into/over immovable objects; field drainage; high walls; handling stones; walling competitions, local shows; walls, fences and hedges compared; hay threshing in Canada; wall shapes; building his first wall; demolition of local buildings; walling and women; stiles in walls; accidents whilst working; advertising; effect of the (wet) weather. 4 of 4.

Metadata

Identifier ptvz6zxv
IRN 414316
Class Mark LAVC/SRE/A267r
Level Item
Type of Record Archives - ISAD(G)
Peristent Link http://prototype1.library.leeds.ac.uk/ptvz6zxv
Collection(s) Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture
Category Archive
Parent Record Audiotape Sound Recordings
Creator(s) Brooks, Margaret
Date 16 February 1973
Size and Medium 1 x 12.7cm open reel spool, Duration: 117' 05".

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