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Call No.: SCD CDA PALMER 21 Sound Lib. CDA Roy Palmer collection CD 21 - British Library Sound Archive, [2001]. - 1 sound disc : digital ; 4 3/4 in.

Compact disc. Tales, reminiscences, songs.

Contents: C1023/51 [VWML tape 373]. Arthur Lane, Stanton Long, Shropshire, interviewed by Charles Parker, 19 April 1974: 1. Talk about his small holding, the local village shop, buying sweets, dinner time -- 2. Singing, stopped learning songslost interest in singing in 1902, Harry Smith [saddler] who used to sing comic songs [sings fragment], Seaweed [sung, interrupted by crew changing film] -- 3. Harvest suppers [paid for by farmer], overtime earned during hay and corn harvest month, muckspreading, crop rotation [clover, wheat, swedes and barley] -- 4. Making butter, selling milk, relationship between farm workers and bosses -- 5. Effect on mechanisation on farming -- 6. Working with horses, farm vehicles getting stuck in mud.



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