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Games with Special Equipment
1968-1979
This file contains items relating to games played by children using special equipment, such as a ball or skipping rope. The file includes a photocopy of Bernard A. Barton's article, 'Let's Laik at Sum...
Oatcakes
1966-1976
This file contains a typed copy of William Sanderson's article on oatcake-making at Haworth (West Yorkshire), based on an interview with oatcake-maker Leslie Feather, and published in the 'Dalesman' (...
Plant Lore
1961-1980
This file includes an ms. letter from Gillian Bulmer to Stewart Sanderson on names of apples (12 November 1975); a photocopy of Grace Pleasant Wellborn's paper on plantlore in Nathaniel Hawthorne's 'T...
Agricultural Equipment, Etc.
1969-1979
This file contains items on aspects of agriculture, with a focus on the kinds of tools, equipment and machinery used in farming. This includes a printed diagram and key to the parts of the old Wolds p...
Fishing Methods; Smoking and Curing Fish
1961-1974
This file includes an ms. account of haaf-net fishing on the River Nith and Solway Firth, collected from informants Mr Lockie of Carrutherstown, and Mr Clarke and Miss Clarke of Conheath, Dumfries and...
Calendar Days
1964-1972
This file contains items on calendar customs, including Valentine's Day. This includes a photocopy of typed extracts on local customs from essays on old Mansfield, written for a competition organised ...
Sound Recordings, [Liverpool]
Bond, Francis Keith
[1973/1974]
Unidentified male informant talks about Army life during World War Two, rationing, and relates various humorous anecdotes. [Tr. 3] René Bond talks about her experience as a fourteen year old living...
Sound Recordings, [Liverpool]
Bond, Francis Keith
[1973/1974]
Mr. J. F. Bond [collector's father] talks about the experience of World War Two in Liverpool; Army volunteer (training in Perth) - posted to Normandy, through Europe to Berlin; riots in Trieste; his y...
Basket, Straw and Rope-Work
1960-1973
This file includes a photocopy of typed notes made by Rodney Cousins on basket-making, collected from H. Summers, basketmaker, Sutton-on-Trent (November 1969) and from Herbert Lloyd Johnes' 'The Baske...
Sound Recordings, [Liverpool]
Bond, Francis Keith
[1973/1974]
Unidentified male (a policeman during and after World War Two) talks about Civil Defence, the Blitz on Liverpool and area, wartime spirit, the emergency services, rationing and food, anecdotal inciden...
Sound Recordings, Liverpool
Bond, Francis Keith
1973-1974
Interviews with Henry Glover of Melling [Tr. 4], and the grandparents of the collector, Mary Bickerstaffe and Robert Bickerstaffe [Tr. 5], resident in the Page Moss area of Liverpool. All discuss thei...
Sound Recordings, [Liverpool]
Bond, Francis Keith
[1973/1974]
Unidentified female talks about her experience of living in Liverpool during World War Two - air raid shelters, songs at school, gas masks, dockers' reminiscences, rationing, wartime spirit, life at s...