Sound Recordings, Wiltshire

Description

Francis Foyle and Edward Scammell, recorded in Fovant; talk about farm implements (forks/prongs); fruit and vegetable growing for market; informants' places of birth; corn, barley and other crop growing; cider making (home); types of cider press; decline in home cider making, and the role of the breweries; reaping corn - tools, methods; haymaking; harvesting with horses and binder; threshing by hand; building corn/hay ricks, and thatching; Wiltshire accent; carting with horses; Wiltshire phrases (examples); farm tools/equipment; pronunciation of the words toes and loading; calls to horses; pig killing; making lard. Interview continues with the pronunciation of the words boil and boy; hanging bacon; sheep names and sheep farming in the area; pig and sheep names; wool; animal diseases and cleanliness. [Tr. 5] Oliver Lines, recorded in Sutton Veny; talks about his work as a baker; grandparents baking from 1850; baking at home; ovens fuelled by faggots; father supplying parish bread (poor relief); cottage loaves; bread deliveries; using barm instead of yeast; switching to coal ovens (pre-World War One); German yeast; dough; family baking business since 1850; father's carrying service, with cart/waggon; father's cows and village milk supply; father's wages; baker's wages; pig killing in winter; grandmother's method of cooking offal; collection of pigs' innards from Harris' bacon factory in Calne, for sale in the family shop; curing bacon, drying hams; prices of hams and meat products sold in the shop; [collector talks re. terminology relating to ricks]; pig names; horse harnesses; informant's dairy farm; sings and plays piano [title: ?Pickety Pudding]. [Tr. 6]

Metadata

Identifier v4pzmqqq
IRN 414843
Class Mark LAVC/SRE/A792r
Level Item
Type of Record Archives - ISAD(G)
Peristent Link http://prototype1.library.leeds.ac.uk/v4pzmqqq
Collection(s) Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture
Category Archive
Parent Record Audiotape Sound Recordings
Creator(s) Kylstra, Henk E
Date 1961
Size and Medium 1 x 12.7cm open reel spool, Duration: 78' 34".

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