Sound Recordings, [Devon]
Description
Mr. Collins [location not given] talks about flour milling; flour mill and working conditions; milling machinery and processes; cider; wages and working conditions; wages on leaving school; Christmas; changes after World War Two; describes process of bread making and baking; mother's baking; tinned fruit; farm work; ploughing with horses; livestock; wartime bombing; old mill buildings; ancient Britons in Cornwall; local flora; North Devon landscape; Dartmoor; Cornish pasties; biographical details; World War Two and changes in land use; family's involvement in the war; farm work during the war; American soldiers in the area; skating, fishing as a child; trout tickling; haymaking; cider drinking. [Tr. 1] Mr. Reed [location not given - not the same person as on tape LAVC/SRE/A699r]; talks about his farm and livestock; haymaking; cattle - housing; farming family; changes to the village; gardening; crops and grazing; hedge trimming; local weather; toll gates and condition of roads in the past; road maintenance; farm labourers; seeing his first car; car prices and travel before cars; observations on Devon people; corn milling; farmhouse bread ovens (fuelled by wood faggots); pig killing and meat curing; butchers and slaughterhouses/wholesalers; feed and the price of straw. [Tr. 2] 8 of 11.
Metadata
| Identifier | rxktk77f |
| IRN | 414752 |
| Class Mark | LAVC/SRE/A701r |
| Level | Item |
| Type of Record | Archives - ISAD(G) |
| Peristent Link | http://prototype1.library.leeds.ac.uk/rxktk77f |
| Collection(s) | Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture |
| Category | Archive |
| Parent Record | Audiotape Sound Recordings |
| Creator(s) | Panheinen, Ossi |
| Date | [1970] |
| Size and Medium | 1 x 12.7cm open reel spool, Duration: 86' 24". |