Sound Recordings, Wiltshire

Description

Ernest Kent, recorded in Netheravon; talks about driving hay waggons in the summer; Michaelmas ploughing with oxen; his father; hoeing and rates of pay; threshing with a flail; rates of pay; gleaned corn, threshed and milled for bread flour; working conditions; changes in the village and loss of neighbourliness; siblings; brothers' involvement in the Boer War and World War One; lists farm jobs, including hoeing, mowing, straw-tying, sack-carrying; pay (piecework); work on transport (including horses) in the Army during World War One; places served; childhood; education; drinking and pub fights; [drop-out - voices inaudible]; sweets; Gypsy Traveller communities; transport (walking, pony and trap); the church and religion in the village. [Tr. 1] Francis Foyle and Edward Scammell, recorded in Fovant; talk about the games and tricks played during their childhood; [drop-out - voices inaudible]; inter-village rivalries; pubs and beer; scrapping at election time; Fovant Club and Club Days - meeting, beer, church service, band, supper; fair at Broad Chalke (rides and stalls); [drop-out - voices inaudible]; pig killing and dressing; the fireplace/range and its fittings; old and new farming methods; ploughing with horses; ploughing with tractors; brutality of some carters and treatment of farm boys; horse breaking; driving a four-horse drill; dreymen and horses. [Tr. 2]

Metadata

Identifier	vx47c4ft
IRN	414844
Class Mark	LAVC/SRE/A793r
Level	Item
Type of Record	Archives - ISAD(G)
Peristent Link	http://prototype1.library.leeds.ac.uk/vx47c4ft
Collection(s)	Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture
Category	Archive
Parent Record	Audiotape Sound Recordings
Creator(s)	Wright, John T
Date	August 1957
Size and Medium	1 x 17.8cm open reel spool, Duration: 34' 26".

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