Sound Recordings, Cornwall
Description
[Collector announcement]; Francis Lobb, recorded by Stanley Ellis in St Ewe on the 29 March 1963; answers a selection of questions from the Dieth-Orton dialect survey Questionnaire [various Books]; discussion of left-handedness and the term ?clecky-handed [wife also contributes]; family farming; farm work with horses at the age of fourteen; farm size, acreage ploughed, beef cattle; butter and (cheddar) cheese making; the village population; local estate farms and cottages (many now sold off); thoughts on tenant farming [wife contributes]; farming methods and changes in the last ten to fifteen years; ploughing an acre a day with horses; corn cutting machinery; binding sheaves by hand; compares bullock prices; price of corn (per hundredweight); pig killing; price of wool per pound; lambing; the local weather. [Tr. 4] [This is a copy of a recording on tape LAVC/SRE/A810r.] [Collector announcement]; James Jago, recorded in St Ewe on the 10 December 1958 by John Wright; talks about work on leaving school; the working day on a farm; jobs undertaken; changes in modern times (transport, tractors); farm oxen (yokes, teams); size of farm/fields where oxen worked; fondness for horses; describes horse breaking; shipwrecks and the wreck of The Palace; its restoration and new name of The Try Again; informant's working life on farms, and for the local Council; long/short-handled shovels; agricultural wages; farm labourers living in on the farm; labourers' food; offers of work, pay rise and leaving the farm. [Tr. 5] [Cassette copy of the currently unplayable recording on tape LAVC/SRE/A808r.]
Metadata
| Identifier | tsgg2sxs |
| IRN | 414924 |
| Class Mark | LAVC/SRE/A873 |
| Level | Item |
| Type of Record | Archives - ISAD(G) |
| Peristent Link | http://prototype1.library.leeds.ac.uk/tsgg2sxs |
| Collection(s) | Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture |
| Category | Archive |
| Parent Record | Audiotape Sound Recordings |
| Creator(s) | Ellis, Stanley, Wakelin, Martyn F, Wright, John T |
| Date | 1958-1963 |
| Size and Medium | 1 audiocassette., Duration: 43' 18". |