Sound Recordings, Somerset and Gloucestershire
Description
Compilation of extracts from field recordings made as part of the Survey of English Dialects. Informant from Stogumber talks about cidermaking - factories and modern changes, the price of apples, cidermaking during the slump (?Depression), his orchard, making a cider cheese, the process of cidermaking, from vat to barrel; thoughts on (modern) dress and clothing. Informant from Horsington talks about cowdogs [?coydogs] and the care of his pedigree dog's coat. Informant from Wedmore talks about childhood practical jokes/pranks [?some on Mischief Night]. Informant from Gretton describes the construction of a hay rick, the use of wooden faggots and thatch; the difference between a corn and hay rick; the warmth of hay ricks. Informant from Stoke St Gregory talks about food, farm wages (compared with carters and coalmen), changes in the cost of living, farmer's earnings, cider, attitudes of young people to work and money.
Metadata
| Identifier | rwcbntsh |
| IRN | 414687 |
| Class Mark | LAVC/SRE/A636r |
| Level | Item |
| Type of Record | Archives - ISAD(G) |
| Peristent Link | http://prototype1.library.leeds.ac.uk/rwcbntsh |
| Collection(s) | Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture |
| Category | Archive |
| Parent Record | Audiotape Sound Recordings |
| Creator(s) | Ellis, Stanley |
| Date | [1950s] |
| Size and Medium | 1 x 12.7cm open reel spool, Duration: 19' 04". |