| 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 |
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