Sound Recording, Lancashire
Description
Male informant [two women also present, ?wife and ?daughter], recorded in White Coppice; talks about his work for the Ministry catching moles and other pests; breeding/handling ferrets; rook shooting (in May); gassing foxes; describes molecatching technique and the setting of traps; skinning moles and selling the fur; his relationship as a molecatcher with farmers; replacement of trapping with poisoning; large group (flittins) of rats descending on a location ; rat bites; evidence of the presence of rats; area covered as a ratcatcher; schooling; changes in the village; farm labourers' wages; humorous story re. two men buying pies after a trip to Wembley Stadium; wheelwrighting - describes putting an iron tyre on a wooden wheel; childhood recollections of watching a blacksmith at work; supply of water and electricity to the village; collecting/carrying water. Conversation continues with talk of local dialect and examples of pronunciations from Charnock Richard, Blackburn, Bolton and Horwich.
Metadata
| Identifier | yg78bm2y |
| IRN | 414816 |
| Class Mark | LAVC/SRE/A765r |
| Level | Item |
| Type of Record | Archives - ISAD(G) |
| Peristent Link | http://prototype1.library.leeds.ac.uk/yg78bm2y |
| Collection(s) | Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture |
| Category | Archive |
| Parent Record | Audiotape Sound Recordings |
| Creator(s) | Ellis, Stanley |
| Date | 1963 |
| Size and Medium | 1 x 17.8cm open reel spool, Duration: 47' 54". |