Survey of English Dialects recording in Offenham, Worcestershire
Description
[Side 1] Frank talks about childhood, recalls picking strawberries before school and falling asleep at school, remembers regular punishment at school and from father, describes typical day on farm as child, cleaning horses from 5am and ploughing until 9pm, tells anecdote about picking sprouts for a week but not receiving full wage due to diseased crop, discusses wages in past. [Side 2] reet, talks about threshing by hand, discusses introduction of of combine harvester, compares working conditions and wages now and in past.
Metadata
| Identifier | xsk65qwb |
| IRN | 726575 |
| Class Mark | LAVC/SRE/D/2/D196 |
| Level | Item |
| Type of Record | Archives - ISAD(G) |
| Peristent Link | http://prototype1.library.leeds.ac.uk/xsk65qwb |
| Collection(s) | Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture |
| Category | Archive |
| Parent Record | English Dialect Sound Recordings (England and Wales) |
| Date | 13 Dec 1955 |
| Size and Medium | [Side 1] 04 min. 55 sec., [Side 2] 04 min. 20 sec. |