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Sound Recording, Staffordshire
Upton, Clive S
[Mid-1970s]
[Collector announcement]; Charles Brown, recorded in Stoke-on-Trent; gives answers to the collector's questionnaire concerning language and terminology associated with the butchering trade. Questions ...
Sound Recordings, Suffolk
Evans, George Ewart (1909-1988)
[1960s]
James Knights of Woodbridge [?recorded in 1968] talks about Suffolk and Norfolk men taking seasonal jobs in Burton upon Trent, in October after the harvest; describes work and conditions in the maltho...
Sound Recording, [Norway]
Calvert, Valerie E
1961
[Announcement: results of a questionnaire issued by the Norsk Ethnological Institute]; male discusses Easter food and eggs in Norway - relates findings of survey - customary practices, egg consumption...
Some Aspects of Mothering Sunday (With Particular Reference to Nottingham)
Warren, Vivien P.
1966
A study of Mothering Sunday, with particular reference to its observance in Nottinghamshire. Chapter One covers the origins, growth, partial extinction and revival of the custom, with reference to Con...
Sound Recordings, [Devon]
Panheinen, Ossi
[1970]
Mr. Collins [location not given] talks about flour milling; flour mill and working conditions; milling machinery and processes; cider; wages and working conditions; wages on leaving school; Christmas;...
Sound Recordings, North Yorkshire
Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)
[1960s]
Tom Bradley, recorded in Gargrave; talks about his working life, including carting, farming, carding (mill), canal (horsework); working with his father; home made wine; pig scraping; canal work - haul...
Decorated Egg
[1960s]
A hard-boiled, decorated egg, coloured with a food-based(?) red/pink dye. The shell is patterned with stencils made from small fern leaves and wild flowers.
A Study of Yorkshire Parkin and Gingerbread
Marsh, Patricia
1971
A dissertation comprising four chapters. The first outlines the Yorkshire housekeeping tradition, especially as related to parkin and gingerbread, and includes recipes for wines and punches suitable f...
Sound Recordings, South Yorkshire
Russell, Ian; Howarth, Leslie
8 May 1973
Jack White and Mrs. Jack White in conversation at their home in the Stannington area of Sheffield. Talk of family members; informant's birthplace; Castleton Wakes; haytime; schooling at Lydgate in She...
Sound Recording, North Yorkshire
Sullivan, Keith Frederick
11 September 1976
[Collector announcement]; Mrs. Weatherill and daughter Linda, recorded at home in Ainthorpe. Mrs. W. sings 'My Grandfather's Clock', 'Farmer's Boy' and one verse of 'Springtime in the Rockies'; talks ...
Sound Recordings, Suffolk
Dunn, Ginette
1974
Ruby Ling, recorded at home in Snape on the 11 September 1974; talks about her father working as a tenant farmer on the Wentworth Estate at Aldeburgh; Sunday School treat (tea at the mansion on the es...
Sound Recordings, Suffolk
Evans, George Ewart (1909-1988)
[1960s]
James Knights of Woodbridge [?recorded in 1968] talks about his work with horses; as horse man; learning from the age of thirteen; working in Yorkshire; horses' stables; travelling a stallion; going t...