Clip number Clip name Clip Description Clip Date Clip Location Clip Length Clip Category Clip number Clip name Clip Description Clip Date Clip Location Clip Length Clip Category Clip number Clip name Clip Description Clip Date Clip Location Clip Length Clip Category Baking and making the Meal & Ale The country weemin baking fine pieces for the meal and Ale evening of rural entertainment which 1 drink.mpg celbrates the hairst being finished. See how the drink called the Meal and Ale is made. 19-Aug-99 Aberdeenshire 00:04:09 Architecture See how the corn was separated from any chaff and it is graded according to size using the barn fan made 2 Barn fan and the Meal mill.mpg locally in Aberdeen by Ben Reid and Company. This procedure happened in Aberdeenshire u 20-Aug-98 Kinellar Aberdeenshire 00:04:00 Farming East Letter Fairm Lyne of Skene 3 Barn ready & musicians have arrived.mpg Jimmy is cleaning and decorating the barn for the meal and Ale event. See the two musicians arriving. 12-Sep-99 Aberdeenshire 00:02:24 Culture Bothy Ballad Drumdelgy & cow and horse The cow and the Clydesdale being trained to work together.The bothy ballad song tells of the working of Burl ley farm Garlogie 4 working together.mpg the cow and the horse at a farm called Drumdelgy. This happened on most farms/crofts til 11-Mar-91 Aberdeenshire 00:04:22 Culture Breaking in Sam to tune Princy & Jean Bothy 5 Ballad.mpg Sam being trained to pull the cart while Tom Reid Sings the Bothy ballad Princy and Jean. 20-May-93 Burl ley Garlogie 00:03:40 Clydesdales Domestic 6 Caff bed.mpg The caff , the outer husk of the corn grain was used to fill the mattress case and used to sleep on 24-Jun-89 Muir of Fowles Alford 00:00:57 technology 7 Carting home the peats.mpg Horse cart off to the peat moss in July. Jim loading the peats 23-Jul-98 Redhill Garlogie 00:01:22 Skills and trades 8 Carting Muck with Clydesdale.mpg Loading and emptying the cart with Muck 02-Aug-90 Burley Garlogie 00:01:15 Clydesdales The rucks was the home for rats and mice over the winter. They had to be killed to control their numbers. 9 Control of vermine during the thrash.mpg This was a legal obligation at any thrash. 04-Sep-91 Kintore 00:01:15 Farming 10 Corn sowing using the happer.mpg Dod sowing corn with the happer 20-Apr-90 Burl-ley Garlogie 00:00:58 Farming Cutting corn, scythe scycle and binder, 11 stooking.mpg Varios techniques of cutting corn-scythe scycle and binder, The stooking the sheaf. 14-Sep-90 Kintore 00:04:04 Farming 12 Eddie building peat stack.mpg The art of building a peat stack 08-Sep-92 Memsie 00:02:40 Skills and trades Employment practices in Aberdeenshire 13 Circa1930.mpg Understand how people were employed 04-May-90 Alford Aberdeenshire 00:02:13 Culture Domestic 14 Farm house peat fire & baking oatcakes.mpg See how to bake breed (oatcakes) on a Peat fire 05-May-87 Cabrach Aberdeenshire 00:04:01 technology 15 Grant casting peats.mpg The casting of peats featuring the old techniques and tools of the past. 04-May-90 Cabrach moss 00:04:03 Skills and trades 16 Horse in stable.mpg The process of looking after Clydesdale Horses in the stable 22-May-91 Laurencekirk 00:03:30 Clydesdales Clip number Clip name Clip Description Clip Date Clip Location Clip Length Clip Category 17 Inviting neighbour to meal & Ale.mpg A neighbourly invitation to the celebration of the harvest being finished 09-Sep-89 East letter Lyne of Skene 00:01:45 Culture 18 Jim Casting peats.mpg Jim telling us about breast casting of peats 06-Sep-90 Redhill moss Garlogie 00:07:08 Skills and trades 19 Kitchie Quine starting her new job.mpg The new kitchie quine starting her new job. 04-Apr-90 Upper Balfour Alford 00:01:53 Culture 20 Little Grey Fergie and Fordson .mpg The grey Fergie and the Fordson tractors which replaced the Clydesdale horses in Aberdeenshire farms 05-Jun-89 Lyne of Skene 00:00:35 Farming 21 Little Grey Fergie and Fordson Major.mpg The tractors which replaced the Clydesdale horse in Aberdeenshire 12-Jul-89 Drumnaheath 00:00:35 Farming Meal and ale guest arriving and a Bothy 22 Ballad.mpg Jimmy welcoming his guests and Tam Reid singing the Bothy Balld a pair o Nicky Tams 10-Sep-91 East Letter Lyne of Skene 00:03:49 Culture 23 Packman selling to a farmer.mpg The packman bringing essential goods to his rural customers 14-Apr-93 Skene 00:02:58 Skills and trades 24 Ploughing and cultivating.mpg The winter activity on farme featuring the Clydesdale horse ploughing, hand cultivating the ground 26-Apr-93 Burl-Ley Garlogie 00:02:52 Clydesdales Ploughing Match with Clydesdale 25 Horses.mpg The Scottish Championships. Horse ploughing 12-Sep-93 Monymusk Kemnay 00:07:04 Clydesdales 26 Shimming Neeps and the Haytime.mpg Dod working Sam at shimming the neeps 12-May-99 Burl ley Garlogie 00:05:58 Clydesdales 27 Steam engine and threshing mill.mpg The travelling threshing mill powered by the steam engine. A common site on farms up to the 19 40s. 23-Oct-98 Kintore 00:03:48 Farming 28 Thatching the rucks.mpg This task was a highly skilled one. 26-Oct-91 Kintore 00:01:38 Farming It was essential to use the cow to work along side the one horse that the crofter had, so that the farm work 29 The cow being trained to work.mpg could be done. So trainging the cow to work was an essential task. 25-Jun-99 White Stone Skene 00:05:20 Farming 30 The feeing of the kitchie quine.mpg Victor asking to speak to the potential new employee 23-Oct-99 Strathlonnach Alford 00:05:10 Skills and trades 31 The Leading and Ruck Building.mpg The major task of harvest time called leading. 12-Sep-99 Kintore 00:03:49 Farming The local show, The carting of Peats, Tattie 32 digger.mpg The work of the Clydesdale horse 12-Aug-99 Various in Aberdeenshire 00:03:43 Compilation Clip number Clip name Clip Description Clip Date Clip Location Clip Length Clip Category 33 The packman calling at Wilmas house.mpg See the goods the packman brought to the rural areas. 12-Jun-99 Garlogie 00:03:58 Skills and trades See him pack his goods into a pack which he carried on his back. He walked from rural customer to the 34 The packman packing his pack.mpg next one Visiting about every three months. 19-Jun-99 Garlogie area 00:01:27 Skills and trades 35 The role of the packman.mpg What the packman did. 16-Jun-99 Garlogie 00:01:21 Skills and trades 36 The threshing flail.mpg 1850 the flail was still being used predominately to thrash the corn. 27-Jul-99 Burl-ley Garlogie 00:03:46 Farming 37 The working life of the packman.mpg Role of the packman. 12-Jun-92 Aberdeenshire 00:02:24 Skills and trades 38 Winter approaches.mpg The signes that winter is approaching and what this means for the farmer 23-Sep-99 East Letter Farm Lyne of Skene 00:01:42 Environment 39 Fred Davidson melodian player.mpg Taken from Carney Heritage Productions DVD "The Meal and Ale at East Letter Faim"" 12-Jul-93 East Letter Fairm Lyne of Skene 00:03:15 Culture Anne Reid singing & Jock Cummings 40 playing the Fiddle.mpg The entertainment featured durinmg the 1930-50s in the farm barn 12-Sep-94 East Letter Fairm Lyne of Skene 00:06:13 Culture Anne Reid & Jock Cummings playing the Taken from Carney Heritage Productions DVD "The Meal & Ale at East Letter Fairm" 41 Fiddle.mpg The talents of the singer and the fiddle player were the entertainment for the evening 12-Jul-94 Easy Letter Fairm Lyne of Skene 00:06:13 Culture Robbie Shepherds resitation at the Meal and 42 Ale.mpg Part of the nights entertainment 12-Sep-94 East Letter Fairm Lyne of Skene 00:02:30 Culture The farmer and His Wife, giving out the 43 Meal and Ale.mpg The drink for the evening called the Meal and Ale 12-Sep-94 East Letter Fairm Lyne of Skene 00:01:59 Culture No evening of entertainment could miss out on the dancving and the eightsome reel was an essentia set 44 The Eightsome Reel.mpg dance.l 12-Sep-94 East Letter Fairm Lyne of Skene 00:02:47 Culture The evening was for enjoyment and fuin was had by all. The bagpipes were very much part of such an 45 Barn Fun and Micheal playing the pipes.mpg evening in the 1930-40s 12-Sep-94 East letetr Fairm Lyne of Skene 00:02:52 Culture 46 The Auld Time Waltz.mpg Dancing and newsing was very much part of the Meal and Ale night. 12-Sep-94 East Letter Fairm Lyne of Skene 00:01:49 Culture A duet between husband and wife. These two entertainers are legendary not only in the North East of 47 Butter Platies the song.mpg Scotland but on a world folk music stage. 12-Sep-94 East Letter Fairm Lyne of Skene 00:02:08 Culture Robbie Sheperd reciting The Wiven 48 Sark.mpg The recitation wiven sark a humorous tale 12-Sep-04 East Letter Fairm Lyne of Skene 00:03:00 Culture Clip number Clip name Clip Description Clip Date Clip Location Clip Length Clip Category For Were Nae Awaa T Bide Awaa & Jimmy 49 off to bed.mpg The traditional end to a perfect evening with the song For we are nae awaa t bid awaa.