Sound Recording, Somerset

Description

Jack Spencer, recorded at home in Westhay on 15 July 1972; describes haymaking, including raking, work breaks, harnessing horses, loading waggons, drink, rick making, dinner time, food, tea, evening working until ten o'clock, supper and singsongs; checking the hay is dry, putting hay into cocks; mowing; labouring through the summer; peat cutting, stacking and drying; upbringing; family; schooling - discipline and lessons; football; father's job as a peat merchant; informant selling peat at Burnham-on-Sea, house to house; entertainment (wireless, pub singing); catching and cooking eels; cider making at home - describes the process; step dancing; meat buying; describes Glastonbury and Bridgwater fairs. [Tr. 6] Adolphus Godwin [? Adolphus Gooding], recorded at home in Meare on 17 July 1972; talks about the peat business; father a peat merchant, selling in Wells, and travelling by pony cart to Taunton, Wellington and Tiverton; fishing with spears for fish/eels; breeding rabbits; describes the daily routine of a school day; farm work after leaving school, hoeing, ditching and dressing the land; joining the Army, posted to India, Egypt, France and (in 1922) Ireland; marriage; entertainment - cards, late-night fishing; cider making - describes the process, and lists types of apples; winter farm work; Glastonbury market; buying/selling peat, price setting; horse buying. Adolphus Godwin continues with talk of eel fishing and cooking. [Tr. 7]

Metadata

Identifier ypgg7x65
IRN 414715
Class Mark LAVC/SRE/A664r
Level Item
Type of Record Archives - ISAD(G)
Peristent Link http://prototype1.library.leeds.ac.uk/ypgg7x65
Collection(s) Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture
Category Archive
Parent Record Audiotape Sound Recordings
Creator(s) Ihalainen, Ossi
Date July 1972
Size and Medium 1 x 12.7cm open reel spool, Duration: 48' 05".

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