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Sound Recording, North Yorkshire
Sullivan, Keith Frederick
30 November 1976
[Collector announcement]; Jim Wilkinson, recorded at home in Tranmire; sings 'Waters of Tyne', and discusses learning it and other Geordie songs; sings/hums fragment of 'Buy Broom Besoms'; sings 'Bobb...
Sound Recordings, Isle of Wight, Wiltshire and Berkshire
Kylstra, Henk E; Barry, Michael V (1935-)
1959-1960
[Collector announcement]; Mr. M. Sheath, recorded in Whitwell (Isle of Wight) in April 1959, by Henk Kylstra; talks about the uses for farm waggons and carts; the decline in the use of horses; ploughi...
Sound Recording, North Yorkshire
Sullivan, Keith Frederick
6 January 1977
[Collector announcement]; Raymond Hayes, recorded at home in Hutton-le-Hole; talks about playing in a local dance band, and the tunes played, in Farndale and Rosedale Abbey - involvement of the whole ...
Sound Recordings, Oxfordshire
Baldwin, John R
1969
Mr. T. Newman, recorded at home in Clanfield. Conclusion of session which starts on tape LAVC/SRE/A488r. Sings 'My Old 'at That I Got On', learned from a song sheet, and 'Needle Cases'[ fragment]; rec...
Sound Recordings, Gloucestershire and Oxfordshire
Baldwin, John R
1966-1969
Nancy Thornton, recorded at home in Fairford, sings 'I've Travelled Many a Mile'. [Tr. 3] Albert Agg, recorded at home in Siddington, sings 'Buttercup Joe', 'The Old Sow', 'A Bunch of Green Holly an...
Sound Recordings, Bedfordshire
Webber, M R
[1965-1966]
Unaccompanied male/female singers, singing solos and duets. Includes May songs (May 1st garlanding, May 29th Royal Oak Day), and children's singing games recorded in the playground of a Luton Junior S...
Sound Recording, [Location Unknown]
Bell, Brigid M
24 December 1978
[Collector announcement]; collector's family recorded in conversation whilst eating Christmas Eve supper; discussion covers the food served, Prince Charles' potential bride, Monaco royal family; Luxem...
Sound Recordings, Greater Manchester
Waller, Vivien M
1961-1962
Schoolgirls and boys from Greater Manchester give examples of skipping rhymes, song parodies, dipping rhymes, explanations of chasing/ring games (also card games), Pancake Tuesday rhyme and autograph ...
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...
Folklore Survey (Goathland)
Green, R J
1963
A fieldwork notebook containing items of folklore collected during July 1963 in Goathland, North Yorkshire, from sixteen informants. For each informant, a name and address are given, and the item coll...
Mumming: General
1962-1980
This file contains items generally related to the practice of mumming, and mumming plays. This includes a photocopy of Rosemary Meynell's paper, 'Come, Brave Bow Slash and his Men', from 'Derbyshire C...
The Courtney Manuscript and Related Papers
1973-1974
This file contains papers relating to the republication of Margaret Courtney's 'Cornish Feasts and Folklore' (originally published Penzance: Beare, 1890). Tony Green, lecturer at the Institute of Dial...