Sound Recordings, Suffolk
Description
[Collector announcement]; Sam Friend, a retired horseman, recorded in his home in Framsden. George Ewart Evans is also present, and prompts occasionally. Mr. Friend talks about working as a farm lad from 1900; ploughing for the first time, aged fourteen; working whilst still at school; being taught to milk cows; entertainment - singing and dancing; working with horses. [Tr. 2] [Collector announcement]; Mrs. Savage [ Priscilla Savage?], recorded at home in Blaxhall. George Ewart Evans is also present, and prompts occasionally. Mrs. Savage talks about her marriage; husband's work as a shepherd; family; gathering wheat for grinding; baking; brick ovens; Dutch oven (fuelled by faggots); brewing beer; Christmas - stockings, bell ringers; handbell ringing on Christmas morning; Christmas Day food; school and schoolmaster - lessons, teachers, corporal punishment, dinners; Christmas holiday; stone picking and wheat (gleaning) from fields; husband's work as a shepherd; lambing time; sheep shearing (in fields). [Tr. 3] 6 of 7.
Metadata
| Identifier | xvmymw1r |
| IRN | 414792 |
| Class Mark | LAVC/SRE/A741r |
| Level | Item |
| Type of Record | Archives - ISAD(G) |
| Peristent Link | http://prototype1.library.leeds.ac.uk/xvmymw1r |
| Collection(s) | Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture |
| Category | Archive |
| Parent Record | Audiotape Sound Recordings |
| Creator(s) | Pasanen, Leena |
| Date | 12 August 1971 |
| Size and Medium | 1 x 17.8cm open reel spool, Duration: 51' 47". |