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Peter Tavy, Devon
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Type
sound
Duration
00:07:52
Cultures
English
Shelf mark
C908/30
Recording date
1963/04/01
Recording locations
Peter Tavy, Devon: OS Grid Reference(251500,77500)
Producers
University of Leeds
Recordist
Ellis, Stanley (b.1926
Speakers
Reap, John Arthur (b.1892, male, farmer)
Description
John talks about the type of farming practised locally and explains the annual cycle in the sheep, cattle and pony trade. Lanark is a town in southeast Scotland and Halifax a town in West Yorkshire. Somerset is the county to the immediate northeast of Peter Tavy and Kent is the county at the extreme southeast of England. Read a transcript of this recording on the British Library's 'Sounds Familiar' website .
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