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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...
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...
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-...
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...
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...
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, ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...