Sound Recordings, Cornwall
Description
Mr. N. Cox, recorded in St Cleer; talks about animal (bullock) husbandry; winter feed; lambing time; moor cattle, allowed to roam free within certain boundaries, owned by commoners who pay for commoners' rights; discuss the pounding of cattle who stray too far; the parish of St Cleer; fox/hare hunting; East Cornwall Foxhounds, meeting twice a week; village tug of war team (describes a match); copper/tin mining; piskies [pixies]; Liskeard market. [Tr. 3] Mr. W. H. Lampshire, recorded in St Cleer; talks about his first farming job, then quarrying at the age of twelve and thirteen; explains quarry work - blasting, breaking, carting away for roads; working hours; gardening; rabbiting; work with horses in a veterinary department during World War One; condition of the local roads; copper mines; local legend of treasure buried near local standing stones [ Trethevy Quoit burial chamber], and that the hole in the capstone was made by the Devil; talks of changes in the village - new houses and people; wrestling; tug of war team; watching television. [Tr. 4] 3 of 3.
Metadata
| Identifier | wpll6w59 |
| IRN | 414865 |
| Class Mark | LAVC/SRE/A814r |
| Level | Item |
| Type of Record | Archives - ISAD(G) |
| Peristent Link | http://prototype1.library.leeds.ac.uk/wpll6w59 |
| 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 14.6cm open reel spool, Duration: 31' 53". |