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food32
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agriculture29
nature26
animals22
culture18
implements, utensils etc16
education14

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Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)5
Barry, Michael V (1935-)4
Kylstra, Henk E3
Wright, John T3
Ihalainen, Ossi2
Morgan, Leonard2
Orchard, Bill2
Smith, George2
Tammivaara, Irmeli2
Tyler, William (1893-1893)2

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Sound Recordings, Essex and West Yorkshire

Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)

[1960s]

Martin Baynes, recorded in Henham (Essex); talks about his working life; jobs on leaving school, scaring birds, riding the chain horse at harvest time; working with horses from the age of 14/15; worki...

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Sound Recordings, North Lincolnshire

Haldenby, Cynthia

August 1958

George Gilliat, recorded in Winterton; talks about his working life; childhood recollections of making ?cowbands and tending calves; farm pay, attitudes to work; work with horses; horse breaking; pare...

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Sound Recording, Essex

Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)

[June 1958]

Stacey George Dyer, recorded in Great Chesterford; talks about his grandfather and his work as a farm labourer; names for men mowing, depending on their position in the team; harvesting machinery; bin...

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Sound Recordings, Cornwall

Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009); Wakelin, Martyn F; Wright, John T

1958-1963

[Collector announcement]; Francis Lobb, recorded by Stanley Ellis in St Ewe on the 29 March 1963; answers a selection of questions from the Dieth-Orton dialect survey Questionnaire [various Books]; di...

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A Survey of the Dialect Spoken at the Present Day in and Around the Village of Grindleton in the West Riding of Yorkshire

Jones, William Eric

1949

A study of the dialect spoken in the village of Grindleton in the old West Riding of Yorkshire. An introduction to the village is followed by five chapters which give a descriptive account of the so...

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Survey of English Dialects recording in Melsonby, Yorkshire

Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)

01 Nov 1952

[Side 1] Jack tells amusing anecdote about winning sweepstake to guess size of two prize turnips: wet Friday afternoon at quarry so headed 'hame' [= home], changed into night 'claes' [= clothes] and s...

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Sound Recordings, Lincolnshire and Suffolk

Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)

1959-1960

William Brothwell and Florence Greenwood, recorded in Wragby in April 1960; talk about foxes and shooting them; Mr. Brothwell's farming career; setting a field for ploughing; livestock; thatching and ...

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Sound Recordings, Kent

Barry, Michael V (1935-)

1958-1959

[Collector announcement]; Charles Joiner, recorded in Staple in December 1958; talks about storing apples in earth; first thatching job, aged fifteen/sixteen; describes thatch sewn onto barn roofs; hi...

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Sound Recordings, Devon

Stigell, Ossi

1976

[Collector announcement]; Mr. Oldridge of Sampford Peverell talks about his work as a greenkeeper; farming and the changes brought about through mechanisation; the village's changing population; his f...

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Sound Recordings, London, Huntingdonshire and Buckinghamshire

Tilling, Philip M (1938-); Barry, Michael V (1935-)

1967

Mr. H. J. Kent, recorded in Hackney (London); talks about bus fares in London, compared with fifty years ago; journey times compared with horse trams; thoughts on the present bus service; horse drawn ...

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Basket, Straw and Rope-Work

1960-1973

This file includes a photocopy of typed notes made by Rodney Cousins on basket-making, collected from H. Summers, basketmaker, Sutton-on-Trent (November 1969) and from Herbert Lloyd Johnes' 'The Baske...

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Sound Recordings, Bedfordshire

Shaw, David H

1960

Joe Brimm and his wife, Mrs. Joe Brimm, recorded in Dunton; talk about a local road to Dunton Lodge; thatching a haystack and a wheatcock, the clothing (knee pads) worn and implements used; using a te...

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