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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, 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 Recordings, Suffolk
Dunn, Ginette
June 1975
Ruby Ling, recorded at Snape Old Folks' Club, sings 'Wheel Your P'rambulator'; Bob Hart sings 'Why Shouldn't We Sing?'; all sing a hymn, 'Father, Hear the Prayer We Offer'. Recorded on 19 June 1975. [...
Dialect recording in Morebattle, Roxburghshire
Dieth, Eugen (1893-1956); Orton, Harold (1898-1975)
23 Aug 1939
[Side 1] Mr Currie tells an anecdote about a minister seeking selection for the local kirk, general discussion of local flower show, leeks, barley soups, scabious. [Side 2] Mr Currie recites the story...
Corn Dollies
Liman, Ingemar (1938-)
[1960s]
Contact print strip with images of corn dollies on display in a church, at an unidentified location (probably in the Yorkshire Dales). The images include a star-shaped corn dolly, and a corn dolly in ...
Corn Dollies
Liman, Ingemar (1938-)
[1960s]
Contact print strip with images of corn dollies on display in a church, at an unidentified location (probably in the Yorkshire Dales). The images show different types of elaborately woven corn dolly, ...
Corn Dollies
Liman, Ingemar (1938-)
[1960s]
Contact print strip with images of corn dollies on display in a church, at an unidentified location (probably in the Yorkshire Dales). The images show different types of elaborately woven corn dolly. ...
Corn Dollies
Liman, Ingemar (1938-)
[1960s]
Contact print strip with images of corn dollies on display in a church, at an unidentified location (probably in the Yorkshire Dales). The images show a corn dolly which appears to be in the shape of ...
Corn Dollies
Liman, Ingemar (1938-)
[1960s]
Contact print strip with three images of corn dollies on display in a church, at an unidentified location (probably in the Yorkshire Dales), and one image of a male weaving a corn dolly. The corn doll...
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...
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...
Sound Recordings, Suffolk
Dunn, Ginette
1974
James Knights, recorded at home in Little Glemham on the 14 October 1974; talks about Bob Hart; playing quoits; old songs and modern versions; remembering songs; 'Poacher's Song', 'Lancashire Poacher'...