Sound Recordings, Kent
Description
[Collector announcement]; Alf Tullet (born in Cowden) and his wife, Mrs. Tullet (born in Chiddingstone), recorded in their home in Hever on the 29 December 1978. The conversation concerns the making and thatching of a haystack; hedge tidying and laying; work with horses; cattle breeds kept on the Hever Estate; sheep on the estate; working with a shepherd; hop pickers from London; cutting hay with a scythe; mowing machine; scything edge of corn field in preparation for the binder; beer/cider for harvest workers; Michaelmas; flooding at Hever Castle. [Tr. 1] [Collector announcement]; Bert Bassett (born Penshurst), recorded at home in Chiddingstone on the 28 December 1978; describes the construction of a stack (cereal crops), hay/straw ricks and the importance of letting stacks sink before thatching; straw baling; threshing machine; thatching stacks. Mr. Bassett continues with his description of thatching a stack, including the method of securing the thatch, and thatch decoration; also making a hay rick and the pitch hole; the heating of stacks and judging when the hay is dry enough to stack; haymaking by hand; haymaking machinery, including a horse-drawn hay sweep; method of loading/unloading hay waggons. [Tr. 2]
Metadata
| Identifier | rrr5h4cz |
| IRN | 414918 |
| Class Mark | LAVC/SRE/A867 |
| Level | Item |
| Type of Record | Archives - ISAD(G) |
| Peristent Link | http://prototype1.library.leeds.ac.uk/rrr5h4cz |
| Collection(s) | Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture |
| Category | Archive |
| Parent Record | Audiotape Sound Recordings |
| Creator(s) | North, David J |
| Date | December 1978 |
| Size and Medium | 1 audiocassette., Duration: 40' 38". |