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Sound Recordings, Lancashire
Calvert, Valerie E; Vickers, Emma
April 1961
Emma Vickers of Burscough talks about Burscough Fair; fortune telling with tea leaves and playing cards; good/bad luck - wedding cake, bouquets; Halloween parties at home - games; New Year traditions ...
Sound Recordings, Liverpool, Manchester and Preston
Calvert, Valerie E
April 1961
Peggy Meek describes egg customs - conkering, displaying decorated eggs, egg rolling on Easter Monday, ingredients for decorating eggs [informant is Secretary of the Cumberland and Westmorland Benevol...
Decorated Egg
[1960s]
A hard-boiled, decorated egg, coloured with a food-based(?) red/pink dye. The shell is patterned with stencils made from small fern leaves and wild flowers.
Sound Recording, Staffordshire
Higgs, Judith
July 1972
Miss Speirs, recorded in Stonnall, talks about the local area (principally buildings and rights of way). Reference to Lichfield and Shenstone, local legends and customs and beliefs.
Sound Recording, Staffordshire
Higgs, Judith
August 1972
Arthur Price and Mrs. Arthur Price, recorded in Stonnall, relate a supernatural anecdote, and discuss Shireoaks Club (Feast) and Wakes Week in Stonnall, the village fair and fox hunting.
Sound Recordings, Lancashire
Monaghan, Ann M
[1973]
Male informant [? Mr. Suddell], recorded in Preston, talks about the Preston Guild of 1972 - organisation, description of themed Catholic procession, costumes - role of the Committee [informant's neph...
Sound Recordings, Lancashire
Monaghan, Ann M
1973
Continuation of interview, started on tape A019, with ? Frank Hartley in Preston, regarding the Preston Guild of 1972 - local reaction after the event, cost of the event and commercial benefits, publi...
Sound Recordings, Lancashire
Monaghan, Ann M
1973
Male informant [? Mr. Suddell - informant refers to an ancestor, Roger Suddell; nephew, Paul, also contributes], recorded in Preston, gives a history of the Preston Guild; church processions, trades p...
Sound Recordings, West Yorkshire
Starkey, Helen
28 Sep 1976 - 29 Sep 1979
Foodways: informants [ Gladys Parker and her husband], recorded in Brighouse, talk about beer/wine making; Sowerby Bridge Dock Pudding; Christmas food - preparation, ingredients for Christmas meal; Ea...
Sound Recordings, Stockton-on-Tees
Schrut, Judith Lynne
January 1977
Foodways: Brenda Conway, recorded in Thornaby, talks about making cheese and potato pie (learned from her mother); recording of informant making the dish in her kitchen; biographical details of the in...
Dialect recording in Ovingham, Northumberland
Hornsby, G
24 Nov 1938
[Side 1] Reg recites anecdote of Billy, a regular drinker, and his wife, Mary, hauling him out of bar and sending him home, describes how one Saturday night Billy nearly choked to death on fried tripe...
Sound Recording, [West Yorkshire]
Graham, Jacqueline P
17 January 1979
Graeme Ryan, a student at the University of Leeds, talks about Christmas food and drink; family routine at Christmas; perceptions of Christmas; Father Christmas; carols; decorations. Informant origina...