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Total number of records: 62

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manners and customs62
social life and customs62
community life53
food50
culture46
holidays43
cooking40
occupations31
folk music28
nature28

Top 10: People and organisations

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Calvert, Valerie E5
Tammivaara, Irmeli5
Cook, Catherine4
Cooke, Jane A3
Crook, Rosemary3
Baldwin, John R2
Bell, Brigid M2
Bell, Mary2
Bell, Robert2
Bell, Sheila2

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Sound Recording, Glamorgan

Crook, Rosemary

3 January 1980

Mary Morgan (of Ferndale) talks about her family (siblings; parents - occupations); domestic life - washing, bathing, cooking, sleeping arrangements; the General Strike; mining; mother-in-law working ...

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Sound Recording, West Yorkshire

Wilson, David L

11 December 1971

Allison Cooke and Janet Stern, recorded in Leeds, talking about American university and college campus folklore: rumour; freshman initiation; homecoming games; May Day weekend; Greek Weekend; Greek Si...

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Sound Recordings, Gloucestershire and Oxfordshire

Baldwin, John R

1969

George Dawes [Dusty Dawes], recorded at home in Meysey Hampton; discusses the chorus to the songs 'Treat My Daughter Kindly' and 'Down in the Fields Where the Buttercups Do Grow'; talks about [?step/?...

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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...

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Sound Recording, West Yorkshire

[1970s]

Mr. J. Froggatts, recorded in Chapelthorpe; talks about Pontefract Horse Fair; anecdotes relating to his family; biographical details; half time at school aged twelve, working part-time in the pit; le...

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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...

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Sound Recordings, [Derbyshire]

Wright, Fiona J

December 1978

[Collector announcement: informant's name, year and place of birth]; Linda Aldcroft talks about her childhood Christmases in Altrincham (Cheshire) - preparations, including Stir Up Sunday (cake/puddin...

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Sound Recordings, Glamorgan

Crook, Rosemary

9 January 1980

Recorded in an Old People's Home in Treorchy ; Gladys Flinn (born Ystrad, Glamorgan) talks about family background, occupation of father; describes domestic routine - clothes washing, sleeping arrange...

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Sound Recordings, Devon

Panheinen, Ossi

[1970]

Mr. Layzell of Branscombe, recorded whilst he works in his blacksmith's smithy [machinery noise throughout]; relates the history of the building; working as a smith since 1911; father a smith in the s...

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Sound Recordings, North Yorkshire

Cook, Catherine

[1970-1971]

George Metcalfe of Middlesmoor talks about Dead Mans Hill and the legend of a couple who robbed and murdered people on the pack trail, and buried them in the peat moorland where the bodies are preserv...

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Sound Recording, West Yorkshire

Morris, Patricia M

[September 1981]

Olive Metcalf, recorded at home in the Kirkstall area of Leeds; gives biographical details (born in the Bramley area of Leeds); recollections of baptism as a child; family; other Bramley families; Bra...

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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...

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