Sound Recording, Essex
Description
Stacey George Dyer, recorded in Great Chesterford; talks about his grandfather and his work as a farm labourer; names for men mowing, depending on their position in the team; harvesting machinery; binding harvested crops by hand; drying harvest; haystacks and fires; father's horse racing; the local Hunt; changes in farming (less arable, more sheep); old farm sizes; agricultural labourers, migrant workers and the effect of World War One; the village community and the loss of greens/commons and houses; local people; the working day in the fields, with horses; horsekeeper's work; first farm jobs on leaving school aged eleven.
Metadata
| Identifier | zyjcdyw7 |
| IRN | 414838 |
| Class Mark | LAVC/SRE/A787r |
| Level | Item |
| Type of Record | Archives - ISAD(G) |
| Peristent Link | http://prototype1.library.leeds.ac.uk/zyjcdyw7 |
| Collection(s) | Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture |
| Category | Archive |
| Parent Record | Audiotape Sound Recordings |
| Creator(s) | Ellis, Stanley |
| Date | [June 1958] |
| Size and Medium | 1 x 17.8cm open reel spool, Duration: 19' 37". |