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FTX-411 - TWO THATCHER'S TALKING

DIALECT - Dorset & Somerset

Two craftsmen talking: Bill Tuck of Beaminster (Dorset) and Ernest Shire of Churchinford (Somerset) - of the generations, own house, costs, time, thatcher's year, farming too, working alone & together, apprentice, wetting hay & corn, cider, hurdle-making, types of withies, splitting & twisting, sap - Best reed, Red Standard, wheat, Norfolk reed, spears, bullrushes, buying, ridges, houses, ricks & linhays, jacks & bats, barley sheaves, wearing "Yorks" recorded by John B Smith of Bristol University 1968 411Tuck,Wm(JohnSmith).JPG
 
Bill Tuck (Photo: John B Smith)
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