Sound Recordings, Herefordshire and Worcestershire

Description

Copy tape of fieldwork recordings. The original recordings were made in April 1974. The date when this copy tape was made is not known. [Collector announcement]; Harry Williams, recorded in Longtown on the 28 April 1974; gives biographical details; discusses a wooden cider mill; a guillotine chaff cutter; various local issues, including common land; thoughts on schooling and local people; sings [first line: When the lady called Godiva]; thoughts on his singing; attempts an unidentified song; sings fragment of [first line: Single men be careful]; discusses the weather [another male contributes]. [Tr. 3] [Collector announcement]; William Jones, recorded in Madley on the 22 April 1974; gives biographical information, including details of his parents; talks of his schooling at Eaton Bishop; learning the blacksmith's trade from his father; reference to Sir Charles Pulley; describes his father's cider mill; cider making - hours of work, amount produced per day, price per hogshead; blacksmithing - shoeing horses and ponies at Eaton Bishop; describes making horseshoes (for ponies), early 1900s; cost of shoes for ponies/cart horses; travelling to farms to shoe horses (gives price per set), working for his father; shoeing the horses of Sir Charles Pulley; father owned Eaton Bishop Post Office in 1911; postal deliveries before working in the smithy. [Trs. 4 and 1] [Collector announcement]; Dick Williams and his wife, Mrs. Williams, recorded in Longtown on the 23 April 1974; discuss/examine some deeds and a linen bedspread owned by the informants' Sunday School teacher; discuss Mrs. Williams' family; the family farm; Williams families in the area; development issues in the area; local shops. [Tr. 2] [Collector announcement]; Mr. Hayes, recorded in Clevelode on the 26 April 1974; talks about basketmakers in the village; costs/prices past and present compared; working for his father after leaving school in the early 1920s; hurdle and hamper making; preparation of the willow (boiling); making fruit pots (fruit picking baskets); willow grown locally in informant's grandfather's time, along the River Severn. [Tr. 3] 1 of 2.

Metadata

Identifier	qjzwg27y
IRN	414795
Class Mark	LAVC/SRE/A744r
Level	Item
Type of Record	Archives - ISAD(G)
Peristent Link	http://prototype1.library.leeds.ac.uk/qjzwg27y
Collection(s)	Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture
Category	Archive
Parent Record	Audiotape Sound Recordings
Creator(s)	Bulmer, A Gillian
Date	[1974-1980]
Size and Medium	1 x 17.8cm open reel spool, Duration: 157' 15".

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