Interview with Mrs Corkish of Bride Cottage, Cranstal, mainly about thatching
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Date(s): 16 September 1991
Scope & Content: Mrs Corkish talks about thatching and rural life. She talks about cradles; thatching in her grandfather's time; thatching materials, processing, quantities used, tools and techniques; progression to use of wire instead of rope for securing thatch; thatched houses nearby, in her eighty years living there, and how they became derelict; reasons for people moving away; gorse used as fuel; growing food; Cottier family and the Farrants.
Language: English
Extent: 9 min. 54 sec.
Item name: magnetic recording tape
Collection: Sound Archive
Level: ITEM
ID number: SA 0151
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