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Sound Recording, North Yorkshire
Baines, H
1960
Albert Baines [?wife also present; with male and female questioners], recorded in Ripon; describes his work as a wheelwright in Great Ayton and Stockton [?on Tees]; apprenticeship in Ripon, c. 1900; d...
SED Word Map (Yorkshire): Grindstone
[Mid 1950s-1960s]
Experimental printed word map of Yorkshire, completed in ms. and with SED localities numbered, for SED question IV.2.7, Grindstone. The map includes both the dialect terms used, and an indication of t...
SED Phonological Map: Saw-Dust
Orton, Harold (1898-1975)
[1950s-1960s]
Experimental printed phonological map of the Northern Counties, completed in ms., for SED question I.7.17, Saw-Dust, mapping [a:] pronunciation in Saw. The map is headed The Northern Counties of Engla...
SED Phonological Map: Saw-Dust
Orton, Harold (1898-1975)
[1960s-mid-1970s]
Experimental printed phonological map of the Northern Counties, completed in ms., for SED question I.7.17, Saw-Dust, mapping [a:] pronunciation in Saw. The map is headed The Northern Counties of Engla...
SED Phonological Map: Saw-Dust
Orton, Harold (1898-1975)
[1960s-mid 1970s]
Experimental printed phonological map for SED question I.7.17, Saw-Dust, mapping [a:]- and [o:]-type responses for the Northern Counties. The map was compiled by Harold Orton.
Sound Recordings, Powys
Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009); Parry, David (1937-)
[1960s]
Bert Williams, recorded in Builth Wells [undated]; talks about the town as it was in his youth; describes various buildings, including a gatehouse, temperance houses, cattle market, brewery, Masonic H...
Technical Terms from a Wheelwright's Ledger
Wilkinson, Karl V
1972
This file contains a typed alphabetical list ([7] leaves) of terms relating to wheelwrighting, woodwork and agricultural tools, with definitions, compiled from a ledger belonging to Edward Packhamof t...
Woodworkers' Tools
1972-1973
This file contains typed correspondence from W. L. Goodman to Stewart Sanderson and Tony Green on the terminology of woodworkers' tools from the 16th and 17th centuries (23 December 1972 - 6 April 197...
The Coopers' Company, the Craft, and Gauging Casks
O'Neill, G M
1967
A thesis examining the history and practise of coopering, including a section outlining the history of the Coopers Company of London , and a description of hand coopering based on interviews with coop...
Priston Mill: A Study of a Working Corn Mill
Mitchell, Sarah L G
1980
A study which takes Priston Mill ( Priston, Somerset) as a working example of material culture, within a more general discussion of milling and its history. The first of its five sections presents a b...
Wood-Turning in the West Pennines
Earnshaw, David R
1966
A dissertation covering the development of three Lancashire family and village trades on the edge of the West Pennines. The three wood-turning firms studied are H. J. Berry and Sons Limited of Chippin...
Sound Recording, Lancashire
Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)
1963
Male informant [two women also present, ?wife and ?daughter], recorded in White Coppice; talks about his work for the Ministry catching moles and other pests; breeding/handling ferrets; rook shooting ...