Sound Recordings, Essex
Description
Mr. R. O. Allston, recorded in West Bergholt; talks about the growth of the village; serving with the Essex Regiment (and also the Hampshire Regiment) during World War One; his father's work in a local flour mill; describes flour, middlin's and bran - products of corn grinding; the village brewery; local farm employers; the decline in agricultural employment; sheep; crops grown; storing mangel-wurzles and swedes; chopping out/singling beet; farm horses; groom gardeners; fox hunting. [Tr. 6] James Pearson, recorded in Belchamp Walter; describes his job as a stockman on a farm; describes other farm jobs, including harvesting; describes the process of thatching (haystacks); seed drilling; talks about his house and garden. [Tr. 1]
Metadata
| Identifier | xs4q3c69 |
| IRN | 414839 |
| Class Mark | LAVC/SRE/A788r |
| Level | Item |
| Type of Record | Archives - ISAD(G) |
| Peristent Link | http://prototype1.library.leeds.ac.uk/xs4q3c69 |
| Collection(s) | Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture |
| Category | Archive |
| Parent Record | Audiotape Sound Recordings |
| Creator(s) | Berntsen, Howard N |
| Date | 1961 |
| Size and Medium | 1 x 17.8cm open reel spool, Duration: 43' 28". |