Sound Recordings, Essex and West Yorkshire
Description
Martin Baynes, recorded in Henham (Essex); talks about his working life; jobs on leaving school, scaring birds, riding the chain horse at harvest time; working with horses from the age of 14/15; working day (winter); winter horseshoes; transporting goods/crops with horses; wheat growing and yields; working with/caring for horses; farming, pre-mechanisation - harvesting, mowing barley with scythes, threshing with flails; changes in farming (employment) and the village; rural depopulation; horse commands; horse breaking; horse breeding and breeds (Shire, Suffolk); ploughing with horses. [Tr. 10] Male informant [? Mr. Catel], recorded in Leeds [date unknown]; talks about having electric lighting for the first time; his dog; changes in the city; local councillors; working-class housing; council flats and families leaving old houses; foundry work; shop stewarding and trade unionism in foundry and other local foundries; negotiating working hours, conditions and pay post-World War One; negotiating bonuses [incomplete - tape ends]. [Tr. 11]
Metadata
| Identifier | tycqlnl8 |
| IRN | 414819 |
| Class Mark | LAVC/SRE/A768r |
| Level | Item |
| Type of Record | Archives - ISAD(G) |
| Peristent Link | http://prototype1.library.leeds.ac.uk/tycqlnl8 |
| Collection(s) | Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture |
| Category | Archive |
| Parent Record | Audiotape Sound Recordings |
| Creator(s) | Ellis, Stanley |
| Date | [1960s] |
| Size and Medium | 1 x 17.8cm open reel spool, Duration: 63' 55". |