Survey of English Dialects recording in Thursley, Surrey
Description
[Side 1] Mr. Baker compares farming now and in past, describes longer working day before advent of mechanisation and subsequent reduction in farm labour, recalls harvesting by hand, compares working with horses in past and use of tractor now, talks about beekeeping, describes locally hand-made straw 'skep', explains process of killing bees and extracting honey, recalls occasionally being stung. [Side 2] Mr Baker talks about building 'rick' [= haystack], discusses best time to thresh corn, describes how to build rick with sheaves outwards to ensure rainwater runs off, explains use of 'shock' [= group of sheaves placed upright for drying] or 'staddle' [= raised platform on which stack is built to deter vermin] as base, talks about ploughing with horses, describes traditional one-wheeled wooden Guildford plough and later two-wheeled iron plough.
Metadata
| Identifier | wmhnp37t |
| IRN | 726659 |
| Class Mark | LAVC/SRE/D/2/D280 |
| Level | Item |
| Type of Record | Archives - ISAD(G) |
| Peristent Link | http://prototype1.library.leeds.ac.uk/wmhnp37t |
| Collection(s) | Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture |
| Category | Archive |
| Parent Record | English Dialect Sound Recordings (England and Wales) |
| Date | Sep 1959 |
| Size and Medium | [Side 1] 04 min. 56 sec., [Side 2] 05 min. 04 sec. |