Dialect recording in Holdenby, Northamptonshire

[Side 1] Mr Manning demonstrates instructions given to horses, considers ploughing with horses preferable to ploughing with tractors, compares harvesting now and in past, describes progression form 'sailor' [= apparatus for gathering cut corn] to 'self-binder' [= machine for reaping and binding corn into sheaves automatically] and combine harvester. [Side 2] Mr Manning describes how to 'lay' hedge [= intertwine branches of brushwood to form/repair hedge], discusses implements used incl. 'bill-hook' [= thick knife with hooked end used for pruning/cutting brushwood], comments ditches not maintained as well as in past. Continued from 1LL0015111 S2.