Survey of English Dialects recording in Appledore, Kent

[Side 1] Fred recalls cycling long distances to visit farms as travelling thresher, lists local farms visited incl. Newchurch, Brookland, Brenzett, Wittersham and Tenterden, comments specialist equipment (e.g. sieves for beans) often required, reflects on long hours visiting two or three farms a day, comments traction engines travelled max. 4 miles an hour, mentions introduction of wild white clover to local arms and subsequent work stacking hay for threshing, recalls reliable supplier of machinery and parts in Stowmarket. [Side 2] Fred describes how he decided to sell threshing machine and buy smallholding, talks about government advice during World War 1 to build stacks in separate fields to avoid risk of losing entire crop to incendiary bombs, recalls occasionally helping local farmer thresh corn and peas, mentions restrictions on travel during World War 1.