Sound Recording, Devon
Description
Mr. F. H. W. Small, recorded in Cornwood [interviewed by an unidentified female]; talks about fifty years' employment in the china-clay industry; describes the clay's consistency, according to its depth underground; drying the clay in kilns (by air in the past); scraping off yellow nubs; working hours; top surface removed by ?burden men; names the pits where he has been in charge, including Lee Moor (the largest clay pit in the world); the clay market (India); describes the clay refining process; transportation (rail, inclined plane, horse and waggon to port); describes the local area and the position of the clay; geology and the load (stone stratum amid the clay); working with clay from the age of twenty-one; talks of other jobs before this; names the companies worked for; the effect of World War Two on clay production; local prisoners of war; lists the types of employees at a clay works; his retirement; family; gardening (apple growing).
Metadata
| Identifier | rfww1cxm |
| IRN | 414872 |
| Class Mark | LAVC/SRE/A821r |
| Level | Item |
| Type of Record | Archives - ISAD(G) |
| Peristent Link | http://prototype1.library.leeds.ac.uk/rfww1cxm |
| Collection(s) | Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture |
| Category | Archive |
| Parent Record | Audiotape Sound Recordings |
| Creator(s) | Wakelin, Martyn F |
| Date | 1964 |
| Size and Medium | 1 x 10cm open reel spool, Duration: 24' 33". |