Sound Recordings, Cornwall
Description
Thomas Stephens, recorded at home in Altarnun; answers a selection of questions, put by Martyn Wakelin, from the Dieth-Orton dialect survey questionnaire; talks with Stanley Ellis about his first job; farm work before and after leaving school; his own farm - crops grown, stock; farm horses; describes hedge laying/repairing; condition of and repairs to local roads; agricultural labour and mechanisation; [gap, 1 minute]; sheep rearing; lambing and the price of lambs; lamb fair at Five Lanes in July; names for sheep/lambs according to their age; castration; tail cutting; shearing; hours of work; farm subsidies. [Tr. 1] [Collector announcement]; William Rickards, recorded in Egloshayle; talks about the current year's bad weather; Stanley Ellis asks a number of questions from the Dieth-Orton dialect survey questionnaire; talk of farm work from the age of eleven; leaving school at fifteen; job as a flour miller in Sladesbridge; joining the Army in 1914 - based on Salisbury Plain; personal health; quarry work; anecdotes re. a local man and practical jokes played on him by the informant; milling after the war (provender, not flour); personal health; weatherlore - birds nesting high as a sign of a dry summer; small white clouds (messengers in the sky), sign of wind; red sky (at night/in the morning); describes the techniques for stone and turf hedging, and the difference between the two types of hedge; rabbiting with dogs and nets. [Tr. 2]
Metadata
| Identifier | qtdtb4x7 |
| IRN | 414854 |
| Class Mark | LAVC/SRE/A803r |
| Level | Item |
| Type of Record | Archives - ISAD(G) |
| Peristent Link | http://prototype1.library.leeds.ac.uk/qtdtb4x7 |
| Collection(s) | Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture |
| Category | Archive |
| Parent Record | Audiotape Sound Recordings |
| Creator(s) | Ellis, Stanley, Wakelin, Martyn F |
| Date | 29 March 1963 |
| Size and Medium | 1 x 17.8cm open reel spool, Duration: 57' 40". |