Sound Recordings, Essex and Suffolk
Description
William Sibley, recorded in Stisted; talks about his time as a bellringer; farm work as a boy, trimming thatch, stock boy; wages and working days; work with horses and steam plough; work on the farm as a scythe machine engine driver; sale of farm horses and his work driving tractors; ploughing with horses; horse commands; fallow land and grazing sheep; crops grown locally; harvest and transporting wheat with horse and cart to mill; manual nature of farm work; farm mechanisation; beer drinking whilst at work; brewing own beer; work in local maltings; home-made wines; [collector announcement]. [Tr. 3] Bert Jarvis, recorded in Kersey; talks about increases in road traffic; threshing machines; flails; dibbing corn; seed drills; harvesting by hand - drying, stacking corn; haymaking with a scythe; horse breaking and selling; village blacksmiths; working days, wages; family size; living in Kersey; farm employment - extra men during harvest; tradesmen in the village - harness maker, wheelwright, blacksmith; the farmer and his employees; loss of men to the Boer War; hedging and ditching, and related terminology; laying a fence; [collector announcement]. [Tr. 4]
Metadata
| Identifier | zv45vn3w |
| IRN | 414837 |
| Class Mark | LAVC/SRE/A786r |
| Level | Item |
| Type of Record | Archives - ISAD(G) |
| Peristent Link | http://prototype1.library.leeds.ac.uk/zv45vn3w |
| Collection(s) | Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture |
| Category | Archive |
| Parent Record | Audiotape Sound Recordings |
| Creator(s) | Ellis, Stanley |
| Date | July 1959 |
| Size and Medium | 1 x 17.8cm open reel spool, Duration: 43' 12". |