Survey of English Dialects recording in Whiteshill, Gloucestershire. Survey of English Dialects recording in Weobley, Herefordshire

[Side 1] Bill discusses living conditions in past incl. walking miles to look for walk in days before labour exchange, explains people produced own vegetables to supplement food, recalls cooking using 'trippet' [= trivet, apparatus for standing pot/kettle over open fire] and describes traditional open fireplace, talks briefly about work in building trade, mentions having to retire on advice of doctor due to ill health. [Side 2] Dod talks about traditional method of making cider, describes old-fashioned stone-mill with 'chase' [= stone trough in which apples are crushed by stones driven by horse], explains how pulp is transferred to 'hairs' [= hair cloth used in cider-press], briefly describes local method of 'pleaching' [= intertwining branches of brushwood to form/repair hedge] hedges, comments barbed wire not used locally until recently.