Sound Recording, Cambridgeshire
Description
[Collector announcement: date, informant's name]; Arthur Randell, molecatcher (of Coldham, Cambridgeshire), describes the mole's physical appearance, diet and habitat; weatherlore - if the mole is burrowing, frost is going; nesting; young moles; catching moles with his father on the banks of the River Ouse (between [King's] Lynn and Denver); checking and setting traps on his own; molecatching September-April; harvest work when not molecatching, making bands to tie sheaves of corn; molehills; ordering poison and baiting worms. [Tr. 3]; mole traps - describes his father making his own; skinning moles; 2d - 2s 6d price for skins; molecatching a dying trade; lists molecatchers of past in and around Ely/King's Lynn area. [Tr. 1]
Metadata
| Identifier | zw9wwk1v |
| IRN | 414108 |
| Class Mark | LAVC/SRE/A058 |
| Level | Item |
| Type of Record | Archives - ISAD(G) |
| Peristent Link | http://prototype1.library.leeds.ac.uk/zw9wwk1v |
| Collection(s) | Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture |
| Category | Archive |
| Parent Record | Audiotape Sound Recordings |
| Creator(s) | Lyons, Margaret |
| Date | 17 August 1979 |
| Size and Medium | 1 audiocassette., Duration: 84' 03". |