Sound Recordings, Bedfordshire

Description

Harry Scott [continued from tape LAVC/SRE/A746r], recorded in Billington; sings 'I Wish I was Single Again'; talks about Fred Henley. [Tr. 1] Fred Henley and his wife, Mrs. Fred Henley, recorded in Eaton Bray; talk about duck breeding, and the decline after World War One; picking [?plucking] ducks. [Tr. 2] Harry Scott sings [2 unidentified]; recites [ 'Miller of the Dee']; sings chorus to [unidentified]; sings [3 unidentified, 2 of which are fragments]. [Tr. 3] Fred Henley talks about working for Harry Scott (fruit picking); money for employees' Christmas box; the weather and its affect on the fruit crop; Mrs. Fred Henley talks about yeast dumplings and pancakes; her mother's bread making; how to cook dumplings/pancakes; Mr. Henley compares bread of the past with modern bread. [Tr. 4] Harry Scott sings 'The Ship that Never Returned' ; sings [2 unidentified]; recites 'Woodman Spare the Tree' and 'Queen of the May'; sings [unidentified]; recites the words of 'All Jolly Fellows that Follow the Plough'; sings [2 unidentified]; sings 'Little Brown Jug' [fragment]; sings [unidentified fragment]. [Tr. 5] Fred Henley sings song fragment [I live in Trafalgar Square]. [Tr. 6] William Cooper and his wife, Mary Cooper, recorded in Tilsworth; talk about the local vicar; the Anchor pub and the family's ownership; Feast/agricultural stattins - boxing booths on the green; land ownership and Quit Rent; threshing with a hand-operated machine; local people and ownership of buildings in the village, including reference to the snob shop [shoemaker, cobbler] and ownership of the pub; discuss the local pig keeper; Mr. Cooper's family farm, the Manor House, another farm and labourers' cottages all discussed; local inhabitants discussed; beer drinking and costs; the stocks tree. [Tr. 7] Fred Henley sings song fragment [I live in Trafalgar Square]; sings [2 unidentified]; talks about singing with Harry Scott; sings [unidentified fragment]. [Tr. 8] George Kirby, recorded in the sitting room of Tilsworth village Post Office [with the local Postmaster, Mr. Hyde, and Mrs. Hyde]; talks about the Star Inn and tollgate (final location); the village piggery; the Manor House and moat; old buildings making up the Anchor pub (since demolished), and surrounding land; the stocks tree; describes composition and use of a thrail for threshing - working in tandem with another man; sieving; dressing machine; ploughing teams - four horses, also with three (triangle) and two horses (double); commands to horses; bird scaring as a boy, with a clapper - sings accompanying song - pay and hours of work; catching birds with nets; the stocks tree. [Tr. 9] Tape 3. [3 of 8].

Metadata

Identifier	sdbvpkcd
IRN	414799
Class Mark	LAVC/SRE/A748r
Level	Item
Type of Record	Archives - ISAD(G)
Peristent Link	http://prototype1.library.leeds.ac.uk/sdbvpkcd
Collection(s)	Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture
Category	Archive
Parent Record	Audiotape Sound Recordings
Creator(s)	Shaw, David H
Date	1955-1956
Size and Medium	1 x 17.8cm open reel spool, Duration: 122' 42".

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