Sound Recordings, Cambridgeshire

Description

[Collector announcement]; Wally Hull, recorded at Little Downham on the 15 July 1975 [continued from tape LAVC/SRE/A672r]; talks about winter weather; skating and champion skaters; his work as a postman; cost of postage; a postman's pay. [Tr. 1] [Collector announcement]; George Jordan and Emma Jordan, recorded at Little Downham on the 15 July 1975; talk about sugar beet growing and transportation; describe a working day; meals; walking to school; Fenland roads; dockey (local word for packed lunch); food and diet; Ely market; pig killing; farming life; water supply; geographical position of the village; the railway; housing and (brick) building materials; entertainment and leisure time; fundraising events and activities; fall in the number of local people living in Fen villages; the local school; Fenland community spirit and inter-village rivalries; the Jordans' families. [Tr. 2] [Collector announcement]; Charles Baker, recorded at Pymore on the 17 July 1975; talks about his work with steam traction engines and their providing motive power in an agricultural context; describes a working day, the area covered, washing the engine, speed of the engine on the road; dangers of threshing with steam engines; use of steam engines in ploughing and chaff cutting; problems with soft Fenland roads; portable engines drawn by horses - compares with later traction engines; discusses an old photograph of an engine, and describes the functions of certain parts; work with steam powered threshing machines for forty years; lists farmers worked for, and locations; demonstrations at (agricultural) shows (e.g. Peterborough Show). [Tr. 3] [Collector announcement]; Alice Baker, recorded at Pymore on the 17 July 1975; talks about cooking dinners and taking them to her husband at work; moving to Pymore; family; child rearing; domestic routine, washing and drying clothes; her mother's cooking and use of a boiler; her own cooking and use of a copper; domestic lighting, cooking, washing; sanitation and drinking water; entertainment; village life; school; church and chapel; Sunday School, Anniversaries and Good Friday Tea. [Tr. 4]. Continued on tape LAVC/SRE/A674r. 9 of 15.

Metadata

Identifier	wm7nwq4x
IRN	414724
Class Mark	LAVC/SRE/A673r
Level	Item
Type of Record	Archives - ISAD(G)
Peristent Link	http://prototype1.library.leeds.ac.uk/wm7nwq4x
Collection(s)	Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture
Category	Archive
Parent Record	Audiotape Sound Recordings
Creator(s)	Tammivaara, Irmeli
Date	July 1975
Size and Medium	1 x 12.7cm open reel spool, Duration: 87' 52".

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