Sound Recording, North Yorkshire

Description

[Collector announcement]; Charles Horner, recorded at home in Conistone; talks about cow barns; hay and haymaking; livestock; milking and the use of back cans; skimming cream; butter and cheese; restraining cows for milking; names for parts of a barn; putting hay in a barn; the threshing floor; use of a flail; names for pastures; crops; sheep shearing, dipping, salving; wintering cows in hill barns; summer grazing; wintering sheep on (Keighley, Ilkley) moors; transporting sheep; moorland grazing; building and repairing stone barns; cow house (mistal) - parts and terminology; land and number of barns owned; local hills; barns - sizes, features; local soil. Continues with talk of (spring) water supply for cattle; local lathes and field names; lead mining; [recorded outside/in barn] - parts of barn and terminology; ploughing; landscape ( Kilnsey Crag); fishing and shooting; [recorded in Mr. Horner's house], sheep/horse fairs, including at Kilnsey and Kettlewell; [recorded outside], Cleveland (Bay) horses.

Metadata

Identifier tt7r9pm5
IRN 414785
Class Mark LAVC/SRE/A734r
Level Item
Type of Record Archives - ISAD(G)
Peristent Link http://prototype1.library.leeds.ac.uk/tt7r9pm5
Collection(s) Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture
Category Archive
Parent Record Audiotape Sound Recordings
Creator(s) Liman, Ingemar
Date October 1967
Size and Medium 1 x 17.8cm open reel spool, Duration: 58' 49".

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