Sound Recordings, Warwickshire

Description

[Collector announcement]; Bella Green, recorded in Nether Whitacre; talks about her childhood; working in service at a farm in Coleshill; farm work - hoeing, digging, carting, harvesting; horse raking; describes the farm and others worked on until the age of sixty-one; milking; animal feeding; haymaking; liking for all farm work; farm buildings; building hay/corn stacks; drying hay to prevent stack fires; loading the hay waggon; jobs of waggoner, stockman, cowman; milking by hand; milk yield; her children; local speech, past and present; crops grown on the farm; selling potatoes; livestock; [tape squeal from this point]; wool picking; maggoting; lambing; calving; the weather; wages; upbringing [?in Coleshill]; Coleshill Market [tape squeal distorts voices]. [Tr. 1] [Collector announcement]; Sidney Rench, recorded in Stoneleigh; gives biographical information; talks about his schooling; his first job, helping the Sexton of Stoneleigh Church; moving to Canada in 1911, to work with his brother; joining the Army in 1915; training recruits in the 105th Saskatoon Fusiliers, before this; joining battalions in Winnipeg; returning to Britain in 1915; Army service during World War One; war wound; starting a newsagent business in 1926; village cricket and football; demobilisation; positions held in the British Legion and the local cricket club; family; [male enters and contributes occasionally]; writing the history of Stoneleigh Cricket Club; relates childhood pranks; the village policeman; names local men in the war with him; talk of estate workers. [Tr. 2]

Metadata

Identifier t7nx758h
IRN 414894
Class Mark LAVC/SRE/A843r
Level Item
Type of Record Archives - ISAD(G)
Peristent Link http://prototype1.library.leeds.ac.uk/t7nx758h
Collection(s) Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture
Category Archive
Parent Record Audiotape Sound Recordings
Creator(s) Siporin, Rae Lee
Date June 1965
Size and Medium 1 x 12.7cm open reel spool, Duration: 55' 13".

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