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A Historical Description of the Living Dialect of Poynton, Cheshire
Ashurst, B W
1961
A study of the dialect spoken in Poynton, Cheshire, based on data collected through fieldwork interviews with five local people during the Easter and summer of 1960.
Food (MEAL): Beaumont, Andreas and Martin
2022-2023
Audio and related item/s (photograph/transcript) relating to oral history interview conducted (2022-2023) at partner museum with named interviewee (see file title) as part of National Lottery Heritage...
SED Word Map: Cowhouse
Orton, Harold (1898-1975)
[Mid-1960s-mid-1970s]
Experimental printed word map for SED question I.1.8, Cowhouse, mapping responses Cow-House and Cow-Shed. The map was compiled by Harold Orton, is dated March 1964 and is labelled as a draft.
Sound Recordings, North Yorkshire
Cook, Catherine
1970-1971
Male informant talks about his father visiting a witch doctor at Ripon, and a cure involving a jar of nails taken from shoes; also refers to a ritual at a local church at midnight, and black cats. [Tr...
Survey of English Dialects recording in Long Crendon, Buckinghamshire
Dec 1957
[Side 1] Ernest talks about local traders in village in past, incl. undertaker, blacksmith, wheelwright and stonemason, recalls local man who went round killing and curing home reared pigs. [Side 2] ...
SED Word Map: Cowhouse
Orton, Harold (1898-1975)
[Mid-1960s-mid-1970s]
Experimental printed word map for SED question I.1.8, Cowhouse, mapping responses Cow-House and Cow-Shed. The map is labelled as a draft.
Sound Recordings, North Yorkshire
Cook, Catherine
[March 1971]
Recordings made in Middlesmoor. Male informant tells the story of George Sunter selling two dogs at Richmond market; male informant tells the story of the horse Stockton Maggie; the Devil appearing to...