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Total number of records: 36

Top 10: Subject

SubjectCount
community life36
food industry and trade36
occupations36
food30
nature23
animals21
agriculture20
culture18
meat18
implements, utensils etc15

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)8
Upton, Clive S8
Barry, Michael V (1935-)3
Kylstra, Henk E3
Wright, John T3
Blyth, Robert (1883-)2
Lindley, Mrs2
Lindley, Raymond2
Morgan, Leonard2
Morgan, Wilf2

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Sound Recordings, Herefordshire and Shropshire

Upton, Clive S

[Mid-1970s]

Unidentified butcher, recorded in his shop in Leominster; talks about delivering meat (carrying/taking orders); working hours; slaughtering; butchering career - working in Weobley (and Leominster sinc...

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The Textile Industry in Meltham Fifty Years Ago

Johnstone, Russell D

1977

A survey of the textile industry in the village of Meltham, near Huddersfield, based on the recollections of six retired textile workers. Six chapters cover the growth of the industry around Huddersfi...

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Sound Recording, Greater Manchester

Upton, Clive S

[Mid-1970s]

Wilf Morgan, butcher, recorded in Mossley[continued from tape LAVC/SRE/A707r]; talks about a delivery pony and trotting races (the Pelican Mile); delivery vehicles - traps for orders/deliveries, drop-...

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Sound Recording, [Location not given]

Upton, Clive S

[Mid-1970s]

Male informant talks about working in the meat trade since the age of thirty, having previously worked with his father selling fish and poultry/fruit and vegetables [in the ? West Midlands]; wartime a...

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Sound Recording, Derby

Upton, Clive S

[Mid-1970s]

[Collector announcement]; Raymond Lindley and his wife [possibly recorded in Spondon, on the outskirts of Derby] give answers to the collector's questionnaire concerning language and terminology assoc...

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Dialect recording in Acomb, Northumberland

Orton, Harold (1898-1975); Lenihan, J M A

11 Jul 1939

[Side 1] Joseph, Neil and Albert talk about smoking, different attitudes to smoking, price of baccy [= 'tobacco'], anecdotes about pipe smoking. [Side 2] Joseph, Neil and Albert discuss horses, hens, ...

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Water-Wheel: Axle
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Water-Wheel: Axle

Kissling, Werner (1895-1988)

1966

Axle of a working water-wheel at a mill in Aiskew (North Yorkshire). At the time of photographing, the wheel was being used to grind corn and was in use on an almost daily basis. Mounted on Photo File...

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Survey of English Dialects recording in North Wheatley, Nottinghamshire

Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)

Jan 1957

[Side 1] George discusses land use around Wheatley, reflects on decline in fruit farming locally, recalls introduction of price controls and requirement to supply jam factories during World War 1, com...

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Sound Recording, West Yorkshire

Evans, George Ewart (1909-1988)

26 July 1972

Female, recorded in Leeds; talks about her career as Manageress of the Refectory at the University of Leeds (1935-1941). Describes the University in 1935; campus buildings; building scheme (demolition...

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Sound Recording, Staffordshire

Upton, Clive S

[Mid-1970s]

Charles Brown [continued from tape LAVC/SRE/A709r], recorded in Stoke-on-Trent; talks about his work as a butcher; meat processing equipment/implements; meat display; butcher's shop fixtures and fitti...

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Cheese-Making in Yorkshire

Chilcott, Margot C

1974

A dissertation on cheese-making in Yorkshire, with particular reference to farmhouse methods employed in the Swaledale area of the county. The study is divided into six chapters. The first provides ...

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Survey of English Dialects recording in Lowick, Northumberland

Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)

14 Feb 1953

[Side 1] Robert recalls schooldays in nearby Duddo, tells anecdote about old groom giving children lift to school, new groom refused so one day Robert and friends pelted his trap with stones, brief de...

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