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Sound Recordings, Cornwall
Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009); Wakelin, Martyn F
March 1963
[Collector announcement]; John Galsworthy, recorded at home in Gwinear on the 28 March 1963; answers a selection of questions from the Dieth-Orton dialect survey Questionnaire [various Books]; talks o...
Sound Recordings, Cambridgeshire and Essex
Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)
[1961]
Male informant, recorded in Comberton; talks about working on a farm from the age of eleven; his father and his farming; thatchers in the family; informant learning to thatch; describes a day's work; ...
Sound Recording, West Yorkshire
Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009); Outhwaite, Paul N
October 1963
Benjamin Harrison, recorded in Farnley; talks about his working life, including work in a coal yard, coal deliveries, working with horses; harvest time; farm labourers' food; work during the summer ti...
Dialect recording in Heywood, Lancashire
Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009); Hunt, Jean
24 Sep 1956
[Side 1] Sam and Jack talk about the local area, various people who have lived there and how it has changed over time. [Side 2] Sam and Jack in conversation about local characters, compare youngsters ...
Sound Recordings, Somerset and Gloucestershire
Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)
[1950s]
Compilation of extracts from field recordings made as part of the Survey of English Dialects. Informant from Stogumber talks about cidermaking - factories and modern changes, the price of apples, c...
Sound Recording, Suffolk
Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)
[1950s]
Male informant, recorded in Kedington; talks about his home, and its previous use as a (cobbler's) shop; changes in the village; increase in population; informant's family; first jobs - stone picking,...
Survey of English Dialects recording in York, Yorkshire
Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)
19 Aug 1953
[Side 1] Joe tells anecdote about getting lost when out with cart one night, describes changes to street in his lifetime, remembers regular cooperation with neighbour over waggons, briefly mentions mo...
Survey of English Dialects recording in Staveley-in-Kendal, Westmorland
Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)
05 Nov 1954
[Side 1] Roger describes a typical year in sheep farming including dosage for 'flukes' [= parasitic worms], injections, lambing, castrating 'tups' [= male sheep], 'clipping' [= shearing], dipping, 'sp...
Sound Recording
Open University
[1980]
Stanley Ellis discusses some of the main changes in the English language during the last one thousand years, illustrated with readings from passages written by King Alfred, Geoffrey Chaucer and Willia...
Sound Recordings, Essex and West Yorkshire
Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)
[1960s]
Martin Baynes, recorded in Henham (Essex); talks about his working life; jobs on leaving school, scaring birds, riding the chain horse at harvest time; working with horses from the age of 14/15; worki...
Dialect recording in Heywood, Lancashire
Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)
24 Sep 1956
[Side 1] Sam and Jack talk about daily life in past, incl. pawn shops, street vendors, fire at Hooley Bridge, opening of working men's club, wages and hours in mill, 1893 union strike. [Side 2] Sam an...
Sound Recordings, Devon
Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009); Wakelin, Martyn F
1 April 1963
[Collector announcement]; Thomas Wright, recorded at home in South Zeal; talks about ploughing with horses from the age of twelve; transporting people and other loads by horse and cart; wages; wrestli...