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Sound Recordings, Norfolk and West Yorkshire
Traynor, Helena M
1977
The vicar of Heacham gives a history of the story of Pocahontas, including reference to the Rolfe family (Princess Pocahontas marries John Rolfe in the seventeenth century); buried in Gravesend in 161...
Sound Recordings, Glamorgan
Crook, Rosemary
9 January 1980
Recorded in an Old People's Home in Treorchy ; Gladys Flinn (born Ystrad, Glamorgan) talks about family background, occupation of father; describes domestic routine - clothes washing, sleeping arrange...
Sound Recording, West Yorkshire
Bergal, Nancy Ann
06 Dec 1979 - 13 Dec 1979
John Barstow, recorded in Leeds, talks about Irish folk songs, Irish immigrants working on building sites [?in Leeds], folk singing in pubs in period after World War Two; folk clubs in Leeds in 1979; ...
Sound Recordings, West Yorkshire
Bergal, Nancy Ann
February 1980
John Barstow singing at Leeds University Folk Club. Recorded 12 February 1980. [Recording level low.] [Tr. 3] John Barstow, [?recorded at home in Leeds], talks about singing in folk clubs in Leeds, ...
Sound Recording, West Yorkshire
Bergal, Nancy Ann
15 February 1980
John Barstow sings 'Galway Shawl'and 'Dan O'Hara'. Recorded at the Grove Folk Club in Leeds. Collector also interviews a member of the audience at the bar of the same club. They discuss folk music/sin...
Sound Recording, West Yorkshire
Bergal, Nancy Ann
13 March 1980
John Barstow, recorded in his home in Leeds, sings 'If We Only had Old Ireland Over Here', 'The Old House', 'Rosin' a Bow', 'Galway Shawl', 'The Old Bog Road', [ 'The Tanyard's Side'], [ 'Land Where t...
Sound Recording, [West Yorkshire]
Bryon, Fiona
14 January 1981
Leslie Rosen talks about the 1970 textile strike in Leeds, and his involvement; describes background to the strike (high rate of work for low pay, disparity in male/female pay rises) and knock-on effe...
Sound Recording, South Yorkshire
Russell, Ian
5 October 1972
Stanley Marsden singing and talking in his home, Allen Syke Farm, in Lodge Moor, Sheffield. Talks about learning songs (from his father/a song book); pub singing; singing whilst milking cows; repertoi...
Appleby Horse Fair: Caravans
Caunce, Stephen
June 1972
View of modern Gypsy Traveller caravans on the residential site at Appleby Horse Fair, Appleby (Cumbria). Mounted on Photo File card with LAVC/PHO/P1605.
Appleby Horse Fair: Showing Horses
Caunce, Stephen
June 1972
Horses being shown by horse dealers at Appleby Horse Fair, Appleby (Cumbria). The horses are ridden up and down a roadway at the fairground. Mounted on Photo File card with LAVC/PHO/P1608.
Appleby Horse Fair: Showing Horses
Caunce, Stephen
June 1972
Horses being shown by horse dealers at Appleby Horse Fair, Appleby (Cumbria). The horses are ridden up and down a roadway at the fairground. Mounted on Photo File card with LAVC/PHO/P1607.
Appleby Horse Fair: Blacksmith
Caunce, Stephen
June 1972
Blacksmith with a mobile forge at Appleby Horse Fair, Appleby (Cumbria). The blacksmith is shoeing a horse, which has its hoof raised up on a tripod. Modern Gypsy Traveller caravans are visible in the...