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food20
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nature19
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agriculture18
weather17
food crops14
play14
home12
manners and customs12

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Tammivaara, Irmeli6
Barry, Michael V (1935-)3
Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)3
Tilling, Philip M (1938-)3
Cross, Miriam2
Hard, May2
Powell, Herbert Thomas2
Tall, William2
(Charlie)1
Annet, Mrs F. E.1

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Sound Recording, British Columbia (Canada)

Smith, Peter

7 January 1977

Lindsay Carter, recorded in New Denver; talks about his birthplace; the town of Sandon - amenities, population, prominent citizens, community spirit; the Depression; Christmas time; Halloween; Christm...

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Sound Recordings, Hertfordshire and Cambridgeshire

Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)

[1950s]

Male informant, recorded in Therfield; talks about ploughing with horses; the self-binder; horse-driven threshing machine; storing corn, and selling at [?Royston] Corn Exchange; taking wheat to mill f...

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Sound Recordings, Devon

Wright, John T

October 1958

[Announcement, ?by Tony Green]; Ernest Smythe, recorded in Parracombe; talks about working life on the railway (as office boy, timekeeper); gangs working on the line, and the difficulty of building it...

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Sound Recording, [Devon]

Panheinen, Ossi

[1970]

Mr. Woodman [?recorded in the garden of his home, in Honiton] talks about the dry weather; a flood two years previously; vegetable gardening; farm work and working hours [tape runs fast to this point,...

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Sound Recording, Buckinghamshire

Tilling, Philip M (1938-); Barry, Michael V (1935-)

1967

Francis Hutt, recorded in Horton; talks about building and thatching corn stacks; clipping hedges; market gardening; milk round with pony - first job, aged eleven; carters' wages; ploughing and horse ...

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Survey of English Dialects recording in Dent, Yorkshire

Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)

05 Oct 1952

[Side 1] George describes annual cycle in sheep farming, incl. 'tupping' [= mating], explains use of 'ruddle' [= dye applied to ram to mark ewes that have been 'tupped'], 'clipping' [= shearing] and d...

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Sound Recordings, Cambridgeshire

Tammivaara, Irmeli

June 1974

Miriam Cross, recorded at home in Prickwillow on 10 June 1974; talks about her childhood home in the village; parents (farmers); baking using a brick oven; jam making; pig killing; describes the Fen r...

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Sound Recordings, Cambridgeshire

Tammivaara, Irmeli

July 1975

[Collector announcement]; Alice Baker, recorded at Pymore on the 17 July 1975 [continued from tape LAVC/SRE/A673r]; talks about March dust storms; floods of 1912 and 1950s; the condition of local (dro...

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Sound Recordings, Cambridgeshire

Tammivaara, Irmeli

June 1974

[Collector announcement]; May Hard, recorded in Pymore on 13 June 1974; talks about her father's job as a blacksmith, shoes for horses and donkeys, cart repairs, making harrows, repairing/sharpening p...

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Sound Recordings, Kent

North, David J

December 1978

[Collector announcement]; Alf Tullet (born in Cowden) and his wife, Mrs. Tullet (born in Chiddingstone), recorded in their home in Hever on the 29 December 1978. The conversation concerns the making a...

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Sound Recordings, South Yorkshire

Russell, Ian

1971-1973

Ken White in conversation in his home in Sheffield , 24 October 1971. Talk of family and childhood, and four songs. [Tr. 1] Albert Broadhead and Bernard Broadhead recorded in one of their homes, in ...

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Sound Recordings, Suffolk

Pasanen, Leena

11 August 1971

[Collector announcement]; George Parker and Mr. Cutting, recorded at Mr. Parker's home in Pettaugh; talk about the flooding of the village in 1912; Mr. Parker working for Mr. Cutting, carting produce ...

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