Survey of English Dialects recording in Netteswell, Essex

[Side 1] Benjamin and Mrs. Coleman discuss farm work, Benjamin describes harvesting and tying sheaves by hand, talks about work as shepherd, describes traditional sickle, compares working conditions now and in past. [Side 2] Benjamin describes 'dressing-machine' [= machine used to separate corn from chaff], describes machines used to remove 'ails' [= awns] from barley prior to malting, unnamed speaker recalls seeing 'frail' [= flail] used, describes using frail to make sample for market, explains how to reap with sickle.