Survey of English Dialects recording in Kersey, Suffolk
Description
[Side 1] Bert remembers seeing horse-drawn threshing machine, recalls threshers using 'stick-and-a-half' or 'frail' [= implement used for threshing corn by hand], tells anecdote about old farm worker frequently sabotaging threshing machine as he preferred to 'throsh' [= thresh] by hand, describes how 'dib' [= dibble, implement used to create hole for sowing seed] was used to sow corn before introduction of seed drill, describes harvesting by hand. [Side 2] Bert talks about timber shed and 'cart-lodge' [= cart-shed], recalls carting corn to barn for stacking, describes typical day mowing with scythe to make hay, discusses breeding and selling horses, talks briefly about farm wages in past.
Metadata
| Identifier | xyx5y4gy |
| IRN | 726599 |
| Class Mark | LAVC/SRE/D/2/D220 |
| Level | Item |
| Type of Record | Archives - ISAD(G) |
| Peristent Link | http://prototype1.library.leeds.ac.uk/xyx5y4gy |
| Collection(s) | Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture |
| Category | Archive |
| Parent Record | English Dialect Sound Recordings (England and Wales) |
| Date | Jul 1959 |
| Size and Medium | [Side 1] 05 min. 16 sec., [Side 2] 05 min. 23 sec. |