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Sound Recording, Glamorgan
Crook, Rosemary
22 February 1980
Ceridwen Thomas offers recollections of her childhood in early twentieth century Treorchy - World War One, housework, gardening; also, childbirth; parental discipline; miners' strikes; Rhondda cake; S...
Sound Recordings, Glamorgan
Crook, Rosemary
9 January 1980
Recorded in an Old People's Home in Treorchy ; Gladys Flinn (born Ystrad, Glamorgan) talks about family background, occupation of father; describes domestic routine - clothes washing, sleeping arrange...
Sound Recording, Glamorgan
Crook, Rosemary
10 April 1980
May Jenkins (born Treorchy) talks about her family origins, childhood recollections of domestic routines - washing, describes fireplace and oven, order of washing, ironing, starch, order of hanging wa...
SED Word Map: Ashes
Orton, Harold (1898-1975)
[Mid-1960s-mid-1970s]
Experimental printed word map, completed in ms., for SED question V.4.5, Ashes, mapping responses Ass, Ess, Ashes, Eshes and Ash. The map was compiled by Harold Orton and J. M., is dated January 1964 ...
SED Word Map: Ashes
Orton, Harold (1898-1975)
[1960s-mid-1970s]
Experimental printed word map, completed in ms., for SED question V.4.5, Ashes, mapping responses Ass, Ess, Ashes, Eshes and Ash. The map is labelled as a draft.
SED Phonological Map: Coal
Orton, Harold (1898-1975)
[Mid-1960s-mid-1970s]
Experimental printed phonological map of the Northern Counties, completed in ms., for SED question IV.4.5, Coal, mapping the various vowel types. The map is headed Survey of English Dialects: Northern...
Yorkshire Response List: Coal
[Mid 1950s-1960s]
Typed list of responses collected in Yorkshire localities to SED question IV.4.5, Coal. The information is largely based on recordings collected by Peter Wright. The list is arranged in tabular form w...
A Historical Description of the Living Dialect of Poynton, Cheshire
Ashurst, B W
1961
A study of the dialect spoken in Poynton, Cheshire, based on data collected through fieldwork interviews with five local people during the Easter and summer of 1960.
An Account of the Home Life, Leisure-Time Activities and Community Traditions of the Northumbrian Coal Miner, Dealing Mainly with the Period 1900 to 1930
Fryer, Sheila
1964
A dissertation based on interviews with seven miners and ex-miners from Northumberland and Newcastle upon Tyne. The first of its three chapters contains a biographical note on, and the recollections o...
A Description of the Dialect of New Hartley, Northumberland
Halliday, Robert Wilson
1972
A study of the dialect spoken in the village of New Hartley in Northumberland, based on interviews with four local informants.
The History and Folk Life of the Somerset Coalfield
Day, Michael Patrick
1974
A study detailing the history and past working traditions of the Somerset coalfields, with particular reference to collieries at Kilmersdon and Writhlington.
Folk Songs of Northumberland and Durham
Atchison, Maureen
1964
A collection of folk songs recorded from four informants (including a miner, and a mother and daughter) living in Northumberland and Durham. The text and tune transcription for each song are provided....