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The compleat gamester : in three parts. : Containing
Seymour, Richard Esq
1739
Signatures: A⁶ [-A1] B-O¹² P⁶. Contents: (from t.p.) I. The court gamester: or, full and easy instructions for playing the games of ombre, quadrille, quintille, piquet, basset, faro, and the r...
Sound Recordings, Lancashire
Bauldie, J S
1969
Interviews with ex-coalminers from Abram, Hindley, Ashton-in-Makerfield and Shevington. Topics covered include work and leisure activities: whippets; practical jokes; beliefs; games (including Piggy, ...
Sound Recording, North Yorkshire
Whitney, Norman F
[1961/1962]
Male and female [?students] interview an unidentified blacksmith in Glaisdale; who describes making horseshoes and fitting a new shoe to a horse (shoeing); describes a horseshoe, and compares shoeing ...
Sound Recording, County Durham
Upton, Clive S; Orton, Harold (1898-1975)
5 June 1974
[Announcement: Clive Upton]; Herbert Hodgson, recorded at home in Bishop Middleham; discusses with Harold Orton playing football for Bowburn ; attending Byers Green school from the age of five; discus...
Sound Recording, North Yorkshire
Sullivan, Keith Frederick
10 September 1976
[Collector announcement]; John White, recorded at home in Ugthorpe; sings fragment of 'Her Own Boy Jack'; talks about the game of quoits - trophies, league, weight of quoit, young players, rules and s...
Sound Recording, North Yorkshire
Sullivan, Keith Frederick
11 November 1977
Ugthorpe quoits team Quoits Supper, recorded at the Black Bull pub in Ugthorpe; includes jokes, monologues and song; anecdote re. two quoits players; the announcement of prize winners and presentation...
Sound Recordings, Suffolk
Dunn, Ginette
1974
James Knights, recorded at home in Little Glemham on the 14 October 1974; talks about Bob Hart; playing quoits; old songs and modern versions; remembering songs; 'Poacher's Song', 'Lancashire Poacher'...
Sound Recordings, Suffolk
Dunn, Ginette
October 1974
Bessie Hammond, recorded at home in Blaxhall on the 2 October 1974; talks about where she learned the songs she sings - radio, singing at work; singing at an old people's club; learning songs at schoo...
Glig-gamena angel-deod. Or, The sports and pastimes of the people of England : including the rural and domestic recreations, May-games, mummeries, pageants, processions, and pompous spectacles, from the earliest period to the present time: illustrated by engravings selected from ancient paintings; in which are represented most of the popular diversions
Strutt, Joseph (1749-1802); Bensley, Thomas (1760-1835); White, John (fl. 1792-1816)
1801
With directions to the binder and errata on final page. Some copies with coloured plates.
Glig-gamena Angel-ðeod, Or, The sports and pastimes of the people of England : including the rural and domestic recreations, May-games, mummeries, pageants, processions, and pompous spectacles, from the earliest period to the present time : illustrated by engravings selected from ancient paintings; in which are represented most of the popular diversions
Strutt, Joseph (1749-1802); Bensley, Thomas (1760-1835)
1810
"Directions to the binder for placing the plates" - p. [358].
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...
Sound Recordings, Hampshire and Wiltshire
Kylstra, Henk E; Wright, John T
1960-1961
William Blake, recorded in Hambledon by Henk Kylstra; talks about his work as a shepherd during the years 1919-1958; the village of Hambledon past and present; schooling; work as a shepherd boy on lea...