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Old Sheep Washing Place: Apedale Beck
Kissling, Werner (1895-1988)
July 1965
Old sheep washing place on Apedale Beck ( Apedale, North Yorkshire). Sheep used to be dropped from the stone-walled croft near the stream (to the left of the bridge) and made to pass through deep wate...
Dry Stone Wall Diagram
Feather, John J
1953
Ms. line diagram showing a cross-section of a dry stone wall. Individual parts of the wall, including capstones, throughs, fillings, and courses, are labelled in ms. The diagram is is dated 4.12.53, a...
Sheffield Christmas Carols
[1970s]
This file contains photocopies of ms. and printed carol texts and tunes, collected by Ian Russell from informants in the Sheffield area, especially Lol Loy (i.e. Lawrence Loy) of Wadsley. The photocop...
Clapham Town End Manuscript
Buck, Charles William (1851-1932)
[1960s-1970s]
This file contains a photocopy of an ms. collection of song texts and tunes, made by Dr. Charles William Buck of Giggleswick (North Yorkshire), ca. 1885-1902. Many of the songs appear to have been har...
Horses, Cattle and Draft Animals
1960-1973
This file contains items on livestock, in particular cattle and horses. The focus is largely on the general care and management of cattle and horses, folklore relating to their care, medicine, dialect...
An Investigation into the Phonetics of the Definite Article in Yorkshire
Jones, William Eric
1950
A study which both analyses phonetically what is said by Yorkshire dialect speakers for the definite article; and shows, by the use of transcriptions of their speech, what types of definite article oc...
Sound Recordings, Wiltshire and Oxfordshire
Baldwin, John R
1969
Mr. J. Morgan, recorded at home in South Marston; sings 'Bold Sir Rylas', 'The Parson and the Suckling Pig', 'As I was a-walking through the fields so gay' [fragment]; talks about his father's singing...
Survey of English Dialects recording in Netteswell, Essex
25 Apr 1952
[Side 1] Benjamin and Mrs. Coleman discuss farm work, Benjamin describes harvesting and tying sheaves by hand, talks about work as shepherd, describes traditional sickle, compares working conditions n...
Survey of English Dialects recording in Stonebroom, Derbyshire
Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)
May 1956
[Side 1] Horace talks about motorcycling incident and encounter with local policeman, discusses work at pit, started aged 12, describes method of ventilation in mine, incl. 'intake' [= shaft through w...
Survey of English Dialects recording in Kinlet, Shropshire
Jan 1955
[Side 1] William recalls 'thrashing' [= threshing] by hand, explains use of 'thrail' [= flail] and 'nile' [= striking part of flail], discusses harvesting by hand and comments younger generation no lo...
Dialect recording in Montacute, Somerset
05 Jun 1952
[Side 1] Bill talks about harvesting by hand, reflects on gradual introduction of mechanisation incl. side rake, describes loading and unloading waggon by hand prior to building 'rick' [= stack of cor...
Dialect recording in Harbury, Warwickshire
Varney, Maurice H
Aug 1957
[Side 1] George recalls starting work at quarry aged 16 carting clay by hand, discusses work on 'kill' [= kiln] making bricks, describes production of 'clinker' [= type of brick] after installation in...