Survey of English Dialects recording in Fletching, Sussex

[Side 1] Mr Bellingham talks about harvesting different crops, describes mowing wheat with 'swap' [= reaping hook for cutting crops close to ground] and explains how to 'shock up' [= set group of sheaves upright in field for drying], comments 'pikeys' [= gypsies] often helped, describes mowing oats in 'swaths' [= row], explains how to build stack to allow air in and heat out by placing 'poke' [= sack] full of straw in middle and building round it to create flue, describes typical day threshing. [Side 2] Mr Bellingham describes traditional oast-house, explains use of smokeless coal and 'brimstone' [= sulphur] in processing hops, talks about hop-picking gangs, recalls farm worker employed to tread hops, describes traditional wiillow hop-bushel, explains practive of drawing lots for stand in hop-garden, recalls helping mother pick hops as young child, describes annual cycle in hop farming, comments hop farming in decline locally.