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home8
culture6
folk music5
community life4
english language - dialects4
persons4
food3
manners and customs3
social life and customs3
traditional medicine3

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Baker, Mr1
Baldwin, John R1
Barry, Michael V (1935-)1
Bellingham, Mr1
Bennett, Mrs1
Bennett, Ray1
Bryant, Mr1
Burghess, Mr Harry1
Carter, Mr Albert1
Dunn, Ginette1

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The Welsh Love Spoon

Thomas, Barbara J

1966

A study which examines the custom of making and giving carved spoons as love tokens in Wales. Consideration is given to the custom, the spoon itself (shape and form, decoration and how and where it wa...

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Sound Recording, Redcar and Cleveland

Sullivan, Keith Frederick; Green, Anthony E (1943-)

16 November 1975

William Hart, recorded at home in Wilton by Tony Green [?daughter and son-in-law, Ray Bennett and Mrs. Ray Bennett, also present]. Conclusion of interview which starts on tape LAVC/SRE/A422r. WH sin...

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The Traditional Cookery of a Yorkshire Housewife

Starkey, Helen

1977

A study of one Yorkshire woman's cooking and baking traditions, and her use of recipes and methods of cooking passed on to her from her mother and grandmother. The study begins with a brief section on...

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Some Aspects of Folk Life in Whitehaven

Graham, Jacqueline P

1980

A study of folk life in Whitehaven, based on information gathered from the collector's grandparents, visitors to their house and other family members, and covering roughly the seventy year period 1910...

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Sound Recording, Suffolk

Dunn, Ginette

4 October 1974

Alice Messenger, possibly recorded at a friend's house in Aldeburgh. [The informant is from Blaxhall. A Mrs. Thompson also speaks on this recording.] AM sings the following songs (generally just the c...

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Sound Recording, West Yorkshire

Morris, Patricia M

October 1981

Dorothy Ibbotson, recorded at home in the Kirkstall area of Leeds; sings 'The Warrior's Little Boy' (learned from her grandmother), and talks about her attempts to trace the song's origins; gives biog...

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Sound Recordings, Oxfordshire, Wiltshire and Gloucestershire

Baldwin, John R

1966

George Powell, recorded in Wigginton; sings 'Jim the Carter's Lad' [fragment], 'Beer Beer Glorious Beer' [fragment] and 'Joan's Ale'. [Tr. 1] Tom Timms and George Powell, recorded in Wigginton. Tom ...

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Sound Recordings, West Sussex, Surrey, Berkshire and East Sussex

Barry, Michael V (1935-)

1959

[Collector announcement]; Harry Prior, recorded in East Harting (West Sussex) in June 1959; talks about Sussex farm waggons; harvesting and building a stack; thatching a haystack; local parkland; info...

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