Sound Recordings, Cambridgeshire

Description

[Collector announcement]; Allan Pate, recorded in Witcham on the 11 July 1974 [continued from tape LAVC/SRE/A670r]; talks about Witcham Feast Week in November; local stories/beliefs associated with witches; land ownership and work in the village; local families; agricultural labourers, working lives, wages; large families; school and class sizes. [Tr. 1] [Collector announcement]; Mildred Willis, recorded in Benwick on the 12 July 1974; talks about the village's pubs; river transport - peat barges, bricks, corn and flour; the railway; water supplies; earth closets. [Tr. 2] [Collector announcement]; Tom Jones, recorded in Benwick on the 12 July 1974; talks about the village's geographical location; the old river course and the cutting of a new river flowing in to the Wash; experience of World War One on the Western Front; the village Feast (July); transport - cycling, pony and trap, first ride in a motor car; visiting doctor only for the village; village church; building precautions due to peaty soil; the British Fleet sailing through Benwick during the reign of Elizabeth I; [collector announcement]; river barges; closure of the local railway line and the increase in road traffic; [collector announcement]; local soil, fertility and crop farming (no cattle). [Tr. 3] [Collector announcement]; Doris Wayman [born in Benwick], recorded in Ingoldisthorpe (Norfolk) on the 12 July 1974; talks about village water supplies; turf barges on the Nene River; the village Feast in July - cricket matches, teas, people returning to the village especially for the event; children's games and evening entertainments; music and musical evenings; handicrafts; skating matches and prizes; local soil and potato growing; Sunday School treats; May Day, girls dressing May dolls (May queening), boys running a May Bush; Plough Monday and Plough Witching (mummers' play). Doris Wayman talks about carriers' carts taking people to Wittlesea station (for trains to Peterborough); Sunday School treats in informant's mother's time - barge trips. [Tr. 4] 7 of 15.

Metadata

Identifier zmjvtjpn
IRN 414722
Class Mark LAVC/SRE/A671r
Level Item
Type of Record Archives - ISAD(G)
Peristent Link http://prototype1.library.leeds.ac.uk/zmjvtjpn
Collection(s) Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture
Category Archive
Parent Record Audiotape Sound Recordings
Creator(s) Tammivaara, Irmeli
Date July 1974
Size and Medium 1 x 12.7cm open reel spool, Duration: 36' 14".

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