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Wright, John T3
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Kent, Ernest Felix1
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Edwards, William1
Foyle, Francis Charles1

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Sound Recordings, Wiltshire

Wright, John T

August 1957

Ernest Kent, recorded in Netheravon; talks about driving hay waggons in the summer; Michaelmas ploughing with oxen; his father; hoeing and rates of pay; threshing with a flail; rates of pay; gleaned c...

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Sound Recordings, Cornwall

Wright, John T

24 November 1958

[Collector announcement]; William Rickards, recorded in Egloshayle; talks about farmwork on leaving school; wages; quarry work after World War One; working with his father in his flour mill, and then ...

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Sound Recording, Devon

Wright, John T

June 1958

Frank Thorne and William Edwards, in conversation in Gittisham; Mr. Thorne talks about farm work, milking, horsemen, father a tenant farmer; [gap, 1 minute]; weeding; haymaking - Mr. Edwards describes...

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