Sound Recordings, Cornwall

Description

[Collector announcement]; Frank Gist, recorded at home in Kilkhampton on the 25 October 1958; talks about farm work on leaving school; the family carriers business; goods transported and for whom; training horses during the Boer War; distances travelled and loads carried as a carrier; church and chapel schools in the village, and rivalry between boys; church attendance; thoughts on past and present times; mischief as a boy; changes in the village; manners; wages; costs of living; local carnival - tableaux, Carnival Queen and attendants, parade; visiting other carnivals in the area; Club Day - church service, parade, dinner, programmes and information re. the Club and its members; being balloted into the Club; work/jobs around the village - farmwork, work on the roads, driving steamroller, carting; cottage (wall) construction; holidaymakers from London; beer; poaching; Gypsy Traveller communities. [Tr. 7] [Collector announcement - repeated]; Thomas Stephens, recorded at home in Altarnun on the 10 November 1958; talks about schooling, teachers and schoolmasters; working from the age of sixteen; marriage; own farm; family; the farm and buttermaking; local mines; turf/peat cutting, drying and burning for cooking; John Wesley in the area, the building of the local chapel and the renovation of Wesley's cottage/chapel; Wesley Day (May 24th); changes in farming - mechanisation, tractors replacing horses, reference to subsidies, wages; troops stationed in the area during World War Two; describes his farm at the outbreak of war (crops and livestock); reflections on manners/attitudes past and present; children's behaviour and the role of the schoolmaster; Sunday School and declining attendances; rural depopulation; farming - working days, including Sundays; mowing with a scythe; the combine. [Tr. 8]

Metadata

Identifier qw41t3mp
IRN 414853
Class Mark LAVC/SRE/A802r
Level Item
Type of Record Archives - ISAD(G)
Peristent Link http://prototype1.library.leeds.ac.uk/qw41t3mp
Collection(s) Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture
Category Archive
Parent Record Audiotape Sound Recordings
Creator(s) Wright, John T
Date 1958
Size and Medium 1 x 17.8cm open reel spool, Duration: 45' 15".

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