Sound Recordings, West Yorkshire and Unidentified

Description

Mr. Woodhead, recorded in Clayton; talks about fitting a halter on a cow; bulls; cattle breeding and artificial insemination; Wibsey Horse Fair; local Tide (Feast/Fair); milk herd; daily milking routine; milk deliveries; hours of work; mowing with horses; using mill workers to help on the land. [Tr. 1] The rest of this tape contains a compilation of extracts copied from Survey of English Dialects field recordings. The informants and recording locations have not been identified. The subjects covered include threshing/drying barley, brewing and village brewhouses [Tr. 2]; carrying milk and eggs to Netherby [?Cumbria/?North Yorkshire] [Tr. 3]; picking copper, and wages paid [Tr. 4]; work shoes [Tr. 5]; schooling and schoolmaster [Tr. 6]; water supply [Tr. 7]; sheep farming (lambing, clipping, tupping), hay time [Tr. 8]; farm buildings, farm layout and the arrangement of buildings, yeomen farmers - mowing, ploughing, rick thatching, threshing. [Tr. 9]

Metadata

Identifier t3l3wj79
IRN 414818
Class Mark LAVC/SRE/A767r
Level Item
Type of Record Archives - ISAD(G)
Peristent Link http://prototype1.library.leeds.ac.uk/t3l3wj79
Collection(s) Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture
Category Archive
Parent Record Audiotape Sound Recordings
Creator(s) Ellis, Stanley
Date [1960s]
Size and Medium 1 x 17.8cm open reel spool, Duration: 44' 02".

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