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Total number of records: 24

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buildings24
community life24
human settlements24
manners and customs23
culture22
social life and customs22
folk music17
english language - dialects16
occupations15
education14

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Sullivan, Keith Frederick7
Pickering, Michael J6
Baldwin, John R2
Dunn, Ginette2
Hales, Phil2
Hart, William2
Panheinen, Ossi2
Tammivaara, Irmeli2
Walton, Wilf2
Wyatt, Winnie2

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Sound Recording, Oxfordshire

Pickering, Michael J

September/October 1973

Winnie Wyatt, recorded at home in Adderbury, talks about Janet Blunt's folk song collecting, and people's perceptions of her in Adderbury; musical afternoons/evenings at her house; singing in the loca...

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Sound Recording, Redcar and Cleveland

Sullivan, Keith Frederick

8 February 1976

[Collector announcement]; William Hart, recorded at home in Wilton; sings [ 'Mary Ann Malone']; talks about his song repertoire; sings 'The Day I Left Old Ireland', 'Patsy Fagan' and 'Where Did You Ge...

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Sound Recording, North Yorkshire

Sullivan, Keith Frederick

2 April 1976

Bill Stomper, recorded at home in Rosedale Abbey; talks about the village, changes and loss of community spirit; harvest suppers and singing; dialect songs; favourite songs; Fred Linley; Arthur Champi...

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Sound Recording, North Yorkshire

Sullivan, Keith Frederick

11 September 1976

[Collector announcement]; Hilda Welford, recorded at home in Tranmire; gives biographical details; talks about Ugthorpe schools; changes in the village [of ?Tranmire]; council houses; family; pub sing...

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Sound Recordings, Dorset

Panheinen, Ossi

[1970]

Mr. Spiller of Broadwindsor talks about farming; milking cows; hedging and the decline in the numbers of hedgers; farm horses and ploughing; weeding corn; haymaking; women labourers; informant's famil...

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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...

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Sound Recording, Oxfordshire

Pickering, Michael J

September 1973

Harry Austin, recorded at home in Adderbury, talks about local people listed on an unidentified manuscript; comments on a number of local families, including the Welsh family, the Walton family, Marth...

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Sound Recordings, Oxfordshire

Pickering, Michael J

September/October 1973

Wilf Walton [daughter also present], recorded in Adderbury; recites texts of a number of unidentified poems/monologues and songs; daughter talks about her father acting in local productions of 'The Mi...

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Sound Recording, Oxfordshire

Pickering, Michael J

25 March 1978

Fanny Hitchman, recorded in Adderbury; sings two songs. The first is a May song, the second is titled 'Dame Crump'. [Tr. 1] Male informant, recorded at home, remembers inhabitants of Adderbury; waln...

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Sound Recording, Suffolk

Dunn, Ginette

2 July 1975

Ben Ling, recorded at home in Blaxhall; talks about singing when younger, and learning to sing; singing at school, and during his time in the Army (in France, field artillery); farm work with his uncl...

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Sound Recording, Oxfordshire

Pickering, Michael J

September/October 1973

Winnie Wyatt, recorded at home in Adderbury, talks about the Blunt family; book rescued from house following Janet Blunt's death; JB's family members and location of living members; Janet Blunt and ev...

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Sound Recordings, Cambridgeshire

Tammivaara, Irmeli

July 1974

[Collector announcement]; Bertram Bridgement, recorded in Manea on the 3 July 1974; talks about farming and farm jobs pre-mechanisation; dyke/drain digging tools; job as a horseman; showing horses (Sh...

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