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Ropemaker's Bench
Kissling, Werner (1895-1988)
June 1962
Ropemaker's bench in Mr. T. G. Outhwaite's workshop at Hawes ( Wensleydale). Rope halters, braided halters, a splicing horn and a ball of cotton are visible. Mounted on Photo File card. With typed not...
Ropemaking: Horsehair Halter
Bulmer, A Gillian
Autumn 1976
Mr. D. Jones of Abergwesyn (near Llanwrtyd Wells, Powys) making a horsehair halter. Mounted on Photo File card with LAVC/PHO/P1277. With ms. notes.
Ropemaking: Horsehair Halter
Bulmer, A Gillian
Autumn 1976
Mr. D. Jones of Abergwesyn (near Llanwrtyd Wells, Powys) preparing horsehair for making a horsehair halter. The hair is scattered so that it lies flat but in different directions. Mounted on Photo Fil...
Sound Recordings, Suffolk
Dunn, Ginette
1975
Bob Hart, recorded at home in Snape on the 5 July 1975 , sings 'Cod Banging', and talks about verses added, singing style and Percy Webb; sings and comments on 'Paradise Street'; learning to play the ...
Questionnaire Response Books
1950-1961
This subseries contains the original response books in which the Survey of English Dialects (SED) fieldworkers recorded informants' responses to the Dieth-Orton Questionnaire. A response book exists f...
Sound Recordings, Yorkshire
Green, Anthony E (1943-)
[1975]
Compilation of field recordings (copy extracts) made by Tony Green and others (including students of the Institute of Dialect and Folk Life Studies), and possibly used by him in a session, Interviewin...
Talismans, Magical Techniques, Charms, Etc.
1966-1979
The file contains an ms. letter from Evelyn Briggs on a superstition associated with seeing pigs on the way to the [horse] races (16 October 1972); Mary Corringham's article on talismans and their use...
Sound Recording, Suffolk
Dunn, Ginette
5 October 1974
Bob Hart, recorded at home in Snape, talks about village concerts, the singer Jack Davy, speeches re. the village and songs sung, village organisations, other singers, (step) dancing, village dances, ...