Survey of English Dialects recording in Goudhurst, Kent

Description

[Side 1] Frank recalls powdering hops through night, recalls farmer sub-contracting young farm workers to County Council to work on roads in winter, tells anecdote about improving dangerous road junction following fatal car accident. [Side 2] Frank recalls helping tie waistbands in hop-gardens before and after school with brother and mother to supplement father's wages, reflects on discipline at home and at school incl. regular corporal punishment for being late to school, tells anecdote about taking horse to forge for shoeing after school and losing control of it when returning home and beating it in stable.

Metadata

Identifier ys5wf47k
IRN 726665
Class Mark LAVC/SRE/D/2/D286
Level Item
Type of Record Archives - ISAD(G)
Peristent Link http://prototype1.library.leeds.ac.uk/ys5wf47k
Collection(s) Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture
Category Archive
Parent Record English Dialect Sound Recordings (England and Wales)
Date Nov 1958
Size and Medium [Side 1] 05 min. 12 sec., [Side 2] 05 min. 00 sec.

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