Survey of English Dialects recording in Little Harrowden, Northamptonshire
Description
[Side 1] Bill talks about schooldays, recalls securing first job on day he left school, describes first jobs on farm incl. working in house and singling swedes, left job after six months, describes occasion when he had to rescue lost sheep in snow. [Side 2] Bill mentions mother's memory of baker once walking from Harrowden to Hardwick along top of hedges to avoid snow, discusses ploughing with horses, explains how to set field with sticks one 'chain' [= 66 feet] wide, describes how to deal with 'pike' [= 'narrow/wedge-shaped piece of land at edge of field'] and 'headland' [= strip of unploughed land at end of field ploughed at right angles last], talks about occasional difficult horse.
Metadata
| Identifier | tdxx6bf9 |
| IRN | 726580 |
| Class Mark | LAVC/SRE/D/2/D201 |
| Level | Item |
| Type of Record | Archives - ISAD(G) |
| Peristent Link | http://prototype1.library.leeds.ac.uk/tdxx6bf9 |
| Collection(s) | Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture |
| Category | Archive |
| Parent Record | English Dialect Sound Recordings (England and Wales) |
| Date | Jul 1957 |
| Size and Medium | [Side 1] 04 min. 58 sec., [Side 2] 04 min. 12 sec. |