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manners and customs6
religion6
community life5
culture5
nature5
social life and customs5
holidays4
agriculture3
buildings3
entertainment events3

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People and organisationsCount
Berntsen, Howard N1
Brooksbank, Irvine1
Edwards, Janet E1
Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)1
Garvey, Billy1
Hubbard, Wendy E1
Hull, Isaac Edward1
Lowe, Harry1
Markwell, George1
Moore, William1

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Spring and Summer Festivals

1963-1981

This file includes a colour section from the West Yorkshire Road Car Company calendar for 1963 on well-dressing in Tissington, Derbyshire, on Ascension Day; a section of a colour poster on the May Day...

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Spring Custom in a North-Western Town: March to June in Salford

Edwards, Janet E

1967

A description of Spring calendar customs observed in Salford, Greater Manchester.

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Pagan and Church Legends

1961-1972

This file contains items relating to pagan cult places, and legends and traditions connected with church history. This includes mounted magazine cuttings from 'Country Life' and 'John Peel Jottings', ...

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Sound Recordings, West Yorkshire and Essex

Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009); Berntsen, Howard N

[1950s-1960s]

Irvine Brooksbank, recorded in Thornton in May 1957; talks about Thornton village; anecdotes re. local people; quarryworkers (including his father); family's connection with the village; family nickna...

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Sound Recordings, Cambridgeshire

Tammivaara, Irmeli

July 1975

[Collector announcement]; Harry Lowe, recorded in Stretham on the 24 July 1975; talks about food and the cost of living; working on a carrier's cart to Cambridge; farm labourers' wages; being an appre...

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Sound Recordings, Shropshire

Hubbard, Wendy E

October-November 1958

[Collector announcement]; William Moore, [?recorded in Albrighton (Shropshire)], talks about his father's haulage business; harvesting; the weather; his father; a motorbike; an anecdote about retrievi...

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