Sound Recording, Cornwall

Description

Harry Welshman, recorded in Duloe; talks about his time in the village; agricultural work and wages; leaving school aged fourteen; father's work as a gamekeeper; Army service during World War One; taking on a smallholding after the war; talk of piskies [pixies], and his father being pisky led; local story re. a duck with no head; stone circles; traditional cures for (nettle) stings; rabbit trapping; lambing time; winters; television; catch can wrestling (traditional Cornish); fishing - trout and salmon, sea (including shark). 2 of 3.

Metadata

Identifier v8vkfjfg
IRN 414864
Class Mark LAVC/SRE/A813r
Level Item
Type of Record Archives - ISAD(G)
Peristent Link http://prototype1.library.leeds.ac.uk/v8vkfjfg
Collection(s) Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture
Category Archive
Parent Record Audiotape Sound Recordings
Creator(s) Wakelin, Martyn F, Tilling, Philip M
Date July 1963
Size and Medium 1 x 17.8cm open reel spool, Duration: 13' 35".

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