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Total number of records: 9

Top 10: Subject

SubjectCount
community life7
culture6
english language - dialects6
folk music5
manners and customs5
occupations4
persons4
buildings3
food3
holidays3

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Davies, Patrick J M1
Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)1
Gale, Mrs1
Green, Anthony E (1943-)1
Jeffries, Jack (1882-)1
Kay, Jack1
Kay, Roger1
Kay, Sam (1888-)1
Panheinen, Ossi1
Pickering, Michael J1

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Dialect recording in Heywood, Lancashire

Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)

24 Sep 1956

[Side 1] Sam and Jack tell series of anecdotes about local characters, recall bets and dares, memories of pranks on bonfire night, cost of alcohol in past. [Side 2] Sam and Jack recall warm ale and fo...

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John Askham of Wellingborough: The Work of a Local Working-Class Author in the Nineteenth Century

Davies, Patrick J M

1983

A study of the writings of John Askham, shoemaker and author from Wellingborough in Northamptonshire. Askham's prose is discussed in relation to street literature of the beginning of the nineteenth ...

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Sound Recording, Oxfordshire

Pickering, Michael J

1973

BBC Radio Oxford outside broadcast programme, 'Hello Adderbury', recorded in Adderbury. The programme covers local government, including an interview with the clerk to the Parish Council who explains ...

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Sound Recordings, Derbyshire

Russell, Ian

25 October 1970 - 28 October 1970

Jack Kay recorded in his home in Marsh Lane, talking about Norfolk Market in Sheffield and copies of song books (Rogers) seen on a stall there; reference to a Whitsuntide hymn sheet; informant's invol...

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Sound Recording, North Yorkshire

Sullivan, Keith Frederick

1 January 1977

[Collector announcement]; Jim Wilkinson, recorded at home in Tranmire; talks about his song repertoire; sings and discusses 'Hills of Ardmorn'; sings 'Jute Mill Song'; talks about forgetting words, im...

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Sound Recordings, North Yorkshire

[Mid-1960s]

Male, recorded in Filey in 1962 [date when this copy tape made not known]; relates incident where coble capsized and fisherman swam ashore; talk of a local poet [recites an example]; observations on c...

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Sound Recordings, Dorset

Panheinen, Ossi

[1970]

Mr. Spiller of Broadwindsor talks about farming; milking cows; hedging and the decline in the numbers of hedgers; farm horses and ploughing; weeding corn; haymaking; women labourers; informant's famil...

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Sound Recording, North Yorkshire

Green, Anthony E (1943-)

26 October 1973

Frank Weatherill, recorded at home in Danby; sings an unidentified song about farmers' lads; relates anecdotes/stories regarding a dog and a hare, dialect, friends reunited, father quarrying and workm...

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Alfred Williams Collection: Index

[1960s-1970s]

This file contains a photocopy of a typed index to the Alfred Williams Collection of Folk Songs at Swindon Reference Library, collected in the early 20th century. The index was compiled by Frank Pursl...

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