Sound Recordings, Berkshire, Surrey, Essex and West Sussex

Description

[Collector announcement]; Charles Allen, recorded in West Ilsley; talks about ploughing with horses; ploughing with tractors; compares past and present; describes a working day on the farm; the village past and present; village recreation; harvesting; threshing; stack building; compares past and present farming methods; decline in agricultural employment; decline in sheep farming in the area; cowsheds and milking; training of race-horses locally. [Tr. 4] [Collector announcement]; Horace Longley, recorded in Outwood in September 1959; compares past and present farming methods; farm machinery; farm horses; use of fertilizers; condition of the fields; local (wind)mills; uncle a wheelwright, farmer and waggon maker; ploughs and ploughing with horses; building a rick; haymaking; the stacker and his job; the decline of stack-building. [Tr. 5] [Collector announcement]; Alfred Norman, recorded in East Clandon in October 1959; talks about building and thatching a haystack; harvesting machines - reaper, self-deliverer/binder; harvesting and women's role in tying sheaves/stooking; ploughing with horses; harrowing and drilling; working day on the farm; wages and jobs undertaken; rise in wages from 1914 onwards; size of farm worked on; modern farming methods; decline of farm estate the informant worked on. [Tr. 6] [Collector announcement]; Harry Humphries, recorded in Little Baddow in September 1959; talks about work on a farm as a child (houseboy at the age of thirteen); the working day; jobs and wages; building haystacks; beater for pheasants; price of beer; waggons and carts; reaper machine and driving horses; plough and ploughing with horses; harvest time - beer and meals (known as beaver); changes in the working days and meals; changes in the village - new houses and disrepair of old buildings. [Tr. 7] [Collector announcement]; Mr. W. Dunton, recorded in Little Bentley in October 1959; talks about starting work as a stockboy at the age of fourteen; hours and wages; stacking and carting; Scotch carts; describes making and thatching a stack; transport and the roads in the past; village life; childhood pranks and practical jokes; old and modern farming methods compared. [Tr. 1] [Collector announcement]; Frank Cox, recorded in Warnham in November 1959; talks about working days on the farm from the age of thirteen; the farm dairy; farm waggons and carts; corn harvesting; thatching stacks/ricks; building a rick; past and present farming methods; leading - collecting loose corn after the harvest (compare gleaning), and making bread with it; ploughing with horses; drilling and harrowing; hedge laying; showing livestock; changes in farming and the village. [Tr. 2]

Metadata

Identifier wtc42wqx
IRN 414841
Class Mark LAVC/SRE/A790r
Level Item
Type of Record Archives - ISAD(G)
Peristent Link http://prototype1.library.leeds.ac.uk/wtc42wqx
Collection(s) Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture
Category Archive
Parent Record Audiotape Sound Recordings
Creator(s) Barry, Michael V
Date 1959
Size and Medium 1 x 12.7cm open reel spool, Duration: 75' 14".

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