Sound Recordings, Warwickshire

Description

[Collector announcement]; Arthur Humphries, recorded in Lighthorne on the 28 July 1966[Swiss male also present asks some questions, possibly Eduard Kolb, or Dieter Bothe]; Mr. Humphries talks about working on the Compton Verney estate of Lord Willoughby de Broke; changes in the village of Lighthorne; work as a carrier with his father; changing land use (local aerodrome); schooling; closure of the local school; the village blacksmith; thoughts on working life; wages (piece work); farm carts and waggons. [Tr. 8] [Collector announcement]; Archibald Ducket, recorded in Lighthorne; talks about his parents' jobs and wages; hours of farm work; buying tobacco; village life and population; seeing his first motor car; local farms; service during World War One (taken prisoner in Germany); working as estate carpenter at Compton Verney; the selling of the house and parts of the estate; describes his job of estate maintenance; rick thatching; hedge laying; cowhouses; wheelwrighting; standard of living; thoughts on modern farming methods; (wooden) ploughs; setting a field for ploughing; [gap, three minutes]. [Tr. 9] [Collector announcement]; Lewis Green, recorded in Napton on the Hill [Swiss male also present asks some questions, possibly Eduard Kolb, or Dieter Bothe]; Mr. Green talks about farming and the corn trade; the price of land per acre; ploughing with horses; the farmhouse; fireplace/oven; building round (corn) and long (hay) ricks; rick thatching; house roof thatching; hedge laying; ploughing with horses; wooden ploughs; compares past and present farming methods; village events (ponies, fetes); school; recollections of a working windmill in the village; clay pits and brick/tile making; canal traffic in the past. [Tr. 10]

Metadata

Identifier sgv191vp
IRN 414886
Class Mark LAVC/SRE/A835r
Level Item
Type of Record Archives - ISAD(G)
Peristent Link http://prototype1.library.leeds.ac.uk/sgv191vp
Collection(s) Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture
Category Archive
Parent Record Audiotape Sound Recordings
Creator(s) Barry, Michael V
Date July 1966
Size and Medium 1 x 12.7cm open reel spool, Duration: 41' 42".

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