Skip to main content

Search Special Collections

Results

1 to 12 of 13 records

Total number of records: 13

Top 10: Subject

SubjectCount
community life8
culture8
manners and customs6
occupations6
english language - dialects5
animals4
nature4
transportation4
buildings3
folk drama3

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)3
(Jerry)1
Arnold, Jim1
Babbidge, P A1
Baldwin, John R1
Bennett, Basil1
Bradley, Tom1
Davies, Dick1
Dunn, Ginette1
Green, R J1
Lock (Door)
Archive Item

Lock (Door)

[1960s]

Old lock in a wooden door in a house at an unidentified location. The lock has a small cover which moves on a nail.

More details and larger image

Stoke Bruerne Canal Museum
Archive Item

Stoke Bruerne Canal Museum

McNay, Ian

1966

View of a lock near the Stoke Bruerne Canal Museum (formerly the Waterways Museum) on the Grand Union Canal at Stoke Bruerne (Northamptonshire).

More details and larger image


Archive File

The Aire and Calder and Calder and Hebble Navigations, Past and Present

Babbidge, P A

1982

A dissertation which traces the evolution of a major commercial waterway, and describes the lives of the men who work, and have worked, on it (based on a number of fieldwork visits and interviews).

More details


Archive Item

Survey of English Dialects recording in Washington, Co. Durham

Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)

29 Sep 1953

[Side 1] Jerry tells anecdote about Geordie seeing 'marra' [= friend] locked out of own house, tells anecdote about young couple on honeymoon in BlackpooL; Jerry and Joe describe physically demanding ...

More details


Archive File

Punishment

1964-1975

This file contains items relating to criminal justice and punishment, and includes Derek Exley's article on the Halifax Gibbet, a crude form of guillotine, extracted from 'The Ridings' (Autumn 1964), ...

More details


Archive Item

Survey of English Dialects recording in Latteridge, Gloucestershire

Aug 1956

[Side 1] Fred recalls leaving school aged 13, talks about first jobs on farm incl. ploughing with horses, discusses typical wages, mentions leaving to work on docks in Wales before returning to local ...

More details


Archive Item

Sound Recordings, North Yorkshire

Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)

[1960s]

Tom Bradley, recorded in Gargrave; talks about his working life, including carting, farming, carding (mill), canal (horsework); working with his father; home made wine; pig scraping; canal work - haul...

More details


Archive File

St. George and the Dragon: A Study in Folk Art

Green, R J

1964

M.A. study [submitted as part of an English Literature degree] comprising ten chapters and five appendices. These discuss definitions of the folk play (with reference made to related calendar customs)...

More details


Archive File

The Goathland Sword Dance

Ridden, G M

1969

A descriptive account of the Goathland sword dance, with consideration also given to the Plough Stots and folk play traditions of the village. Fieldwork was carried out in March 1968, the principal in...

More details


Archive Item

Sound Recording, Suffolk

Dunn, Ginette

2 October 1974

Basil Bennett, recorded at home in Snape; talks about learning songs whilst in the Army and the Navy - 'I'm in Love with Two Sweethearts' and 'Farewell My Own True Love'; his and other people's repert...

More details


Archive Item

Sound Recording, Monmouthshire

Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009); Parry, David (1937-)

[1960s]

Mr. Padfield, recorded in Crosskeys [undated]; talks about the local landscape and afforestation; boom time for coal mines during World War One; economic slumps and unemployment, dole and soup kitchen...

More details


Archive Item

Sound Recordings, Northumberland

Upton, Clive S

15 May 1974

[Collector announcement]; Mary Moffat, recorded at home in Earsdon; talks about doctors, a new Health Centre and home visits in the past; the village; Chapel; playing the organ; other musicians in the...

More details