Accounts of past harvest customs and practices, followed by readings from Charles Benham's "Essex Ballads". These recordings were made by the Essex Education Resources Centre in 1975, and were digitised from a cassette tape.

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The image is of a harvested field in Thorpe-le-Soken, taken by Nick Turner in 2000 (I/Ee 86/22).

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SA 6/304/1 Tape 2 Part 5: Poem 'Them Haunted Housen' from Essex Ballads

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