Sound Recording, Suffolk
Description
Male informant, recorded in Kedington; talks about his home, and its previous use as a (cobbler's) shop; changes in the village; increase in population; informant's family; first jobs - stone picking, rook scaring and tending livestock; wages, rent and the price of food; vegetable gardening; holiday on Christmas Day (loss of pay); Kedington Fair; looking for work; living in; May Fair at Haverhill; local brewery; horse breaking; Suffolk Punch horses; ploughing with horses; village's pubs; cottage accommodation; changes in farming methods; first motor car seen; Shepherds' Club; winter work on the farm; village blacksmith; decline in agricultural employment; harvest time; decline in livestock and rise in crop acreage; recollections of cutting barley in November after a late sowing. Interview continues with talk of Lord Sainsbury; mowing barley with scythes; cutting wheat with a reaping machine, and tied by hand; mown barley; threshing beans.
Metadata
| Identifier | tn83mfz2 |
| IRN | 414836 |
| Class Mark | LAVC/SRE/A785r |
| Level | Item |
| Type of Record | Archives - ISAD(G) |
| Peristent Link | http://prototype1.library.leeds.ac.uk/tn83mfz2 |
| Collection(s) | Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture |
| Category | Archive |
| Parent Record | Audiotape Sound Recordings |
| Creator(s) | Ellis, Stanley |
| Date | [1950s] |
| Size and Medium | 1 x 17.8cm open reel spool, Duration: 36' 06". |