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Carter with Show Horse
[1970s]
Copy of a photograph taken in the 1930s of Mr. Pudsey, a carter from Rudston (East Riding of Yorkshire), with a horse specially decorated with paper and ribbons for a show. Mounted on Photo File card ...
Sound Recordings, North East England
Bird, Elizabeth
[1973]
Two teenage girls (Drum Major and Band Major, possibly members of the Dudley and Fordley Legionnaires) and their ?father explain their roles in a jazz band; promotion, subscriptions; attraction of mem...
Sound Recordings, North East England
Bird, Elizabeth
1974
[Collector announcement]; Mark Hornsey describes carnival (e.g. Blaydon) at which jazz bands would perform (in the 1930s); performing on a rostrum; band practices in a pub; modern bands compared with ...
Sound Recording, North Yorkshire
Sullivan, Keith Frederick
2 April 1976
[Collector announcement]; Raymond Hayes, recorded at home in Hutton-le-Hole; talks about songwriting, singing and playing at dances in the local school hall; playing the banjo and ukulele; sings and p...
Sound Recordings, Lincolnshire
Sutton, Diane
2 Jan 1979 - 4 Jan 1979
Marjorie Sutton [collector's grandmother] and Irvin Sutton [collector's father] discuss pig-killing at Christmas; Lincoln butter market - travelling from Wragby to sell produce; Christmas parties - ga...
Sound Recordings, [Shropshire and Birmingham]
Carter, Julie
29 Dec 1978 - 4 Jan 1979
[Collector announcement - informant collector's grandmother]; Alice Payne 's recollections of Christmas in Shropshire - preparations, including collecting holly; presents; food (Christmas pudding, cak...
Sound Recording, Durham
Pickering, Michael J
5 April 1974
Professor Thomas Thacker, recorded at home in Durham; gives his recollections of Janet Bluntin the late 1920s/early 1930s; attitudes of villagers to her and vice versa; her family, folk song collectin...
Sound Recordings, Cheshire and Derbyshire
Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009); Barry, Michael V (1935-); Siporin, Rae Lee
[1966-1980]
Compilation of Survey of English Dialects fieldwork recordings (copies) for Cheshire locations 7Ch3-6 and Derbyshire 8Db1-2. The original recordings were made in 1955, 1957, 1965 and 1966. The date wh...
Sound Recordings, North East England
Bird, Elizabeth
November 1973
[Collector announcement]; Evelyn Johnston talks about the Black Watch Jazz Band of Bedlington (Northumberland) during the period 1927-1928; boy and girl members; uniform; instruments; batons; mascot; ...
Sound Recordings, Cambridgeshire
Tammivaara, Irmeli
June-July 1974
[Collector announcement]; George Warby and Olive Warby [continued from tape LAVC/SRE/A667r], recorded in Elm on the 27 June 1974; talk about the Charity Dole for agricultural workers from Elm and Frid...