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Wicker Egg Basket
Attebery, Louie W (1927-)
April 1972
100-year old woven wicker egg basket owned by Mr. Vivian Fisher, Keswick (Cumbria). The basket was made by a Keswick artisan. Mounted on Photo File card with LAVC/PHO/P1296.
Sound Recordings, Stockton-on-Tees
Schrut, Judith Lynne
January 1977
Foodways: Brenda Conway, recorded in Thornaby, talks about making cheese and potato pie (learned from her mother); recording of informant making the dish in her kitchen; biographical details of the in...
Dales Kitchen
Unno, Bertrand
[1960s]
Display of Dales furniture, in the setting of an old Dales kitchen, at an unidentified Yorkshire museum. The furniture includes wooden chairs, a set table, a spinning wheel, a grandfather clock, shelv...
Domestic Life in Rural Suffolk
Niccolls, Sharon
1982
A dissertation which analyses continuity and change in domestic customs and traditions in rural Suffolk, in the fifty years to 1982. The first of four chapters focusses on the housewife, and contains ...
Sound Recordings, [Location Unknown]
Bell, Brigid M
28 December 1978
[Collector announcement: interviews with collector's parents and paternal grandmother]; Mary Bell talks about Christmas as a child in Ireland - food, no alcohol; Christmas as mother of collector's fat...
Harvest Supper Setting
[1960s]
Display showing a room decorated for a Wolds harvest supper, at an unidentified Yorkshire museum. The scene shows a long table and benches set for at least twelve people, with candles, jugs, bread, pi...
Sound Recordings, Cambridgeshire
Tammivaara, Irmeli
June 1974
Herbert Powell, recorded in Sutton on the 17 June 1974 [continued from tape LAVC/SRE/A666r]; talks about horse-drawn cultivator/plough, and compares with modern machinery; describes harrows; hand sowi...
Folklore of Worsley: A Miscellaneous Collection of Tradition and Belief From the Area of Worsley, Salford Metropolitan District
Skinner, Margaret
1975
A study of the folklore of Worsley people, based on oral and printed sources. Interviews were conducted with older residents, and children at a Primary School in Walkden. The study contains a sectio...
Sound Recordings, Cambridgeshire
Tammivaara, Irmeli
July 1975
[Collector announcement]; Wally Hull, recorded at Little Downham on the 15 July 1975 [continued from tape LAVC/SRE/A672r]; talks about winter weather; skating and champion skaters; his work as a postm...
Sound Recordings, Devon
Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)
1 April 1963
[Collector announcement]; Ernest Warren, recorded [outside] in Ponsworthy; talks about the recent snowfall; farming (crops, cream/buttermaking); his first job milling flour and driving a horse and car...
Folklore Survey (Goathland)
Green, R J
1963
A fieldwork notebook containing items of folklore collected during July 1963 in Goathland, North Yorkshire, from sixteen informants. For each informant, a name and address are given, and the item coll...
Sound Recordings, Lincolnshire
Sutton, Diane
2 Jan 1979 - 4 Jan 1979
Marjorie Sutton [collector's grandmother] and Irvin Sutton [collector's father] discuss pig-killing at Christmas; Lincoln butter market - travelling from Wragby to sell produce; Christmas parties - ga...