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Sound Recording, Somerset
Ihalainen, Ossi
July 1972
Jack Spencer, recorded at home in Westhay on 15 July 1972; describes haymaking, including raking, work breaks, harnessing horses, loading waggons, drink, rick making, dinner time, food, tea, evening w...
Sound Recordings, Derbyshire and Staffordshire
Siporin, Rae Lee
1965
[Collector announcement]; Jim Driver, recorded in Charlesworth in May 1965; talks about his working life, including ropemaking; starting work at the age of 22/23; cotton rope and its use; his family; ...
Sound Recording, Derbyshire
BBC
[1970-1979]
Local BBC Radio broadcast, entitled 'Owd Loscoe' [produced by ?Radio Nottingham, or ?Radio Derby]; [Announcement]; Billy Bellfield, recorded in Holbrook; talks about life at the end of the nineteenth ...
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 ...
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...
Sound Recording, Lancashire
Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)
1963
Male informant [two women also present, ?wife and ?daughter], recorded in White Coppice; talks about his work for the Ministry catching moles and other pests; breeding/handling ferrets; rook shooting ...
Sound Recordings, County Durham
Upton, Clive S
May 1974
[Collector announcement]; William Dodds, recorded at home in Ebchester on the 14 May 1974; examines and describes archaeological artefacts, excavated by him during the previous six years from the site...
Sound Recording, Glamorgan
Crook, Rosemary
8 January 1980
Recording made in Llwynypia ; Edith Jones and Eunice King (both born and lived in Ystrad, Glamorgan); family biographies; describe domestic routine, washing/making clothes (childhood recollections of ...
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...
Sound Recordings, Salop
Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009); Barry, Michael V (1935-)
[1966-1980]
Compilation of Survey of English Dialects fieldwork recordings (copies) for Salop locations 11Sa1-8. The original recordings were made in 1955 and 1966. The date when this copy tape was made is not kn...
Sound Recordings, Yorkshire
Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009); Wright, Peter
[1966-1980]
Compilation of Survey of English Dialects fieldwork recordings (copies) for Yorkshire locations 6Y21-24, 26-29. The majority of the original recordings were made by Stanley Ellis, in 1955, 1963, 1964 ...
Sound Recordings, Staffordshire
Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009); Siporin, Rae Lee
[1965-1980]
Compilation of Survey of English Dialects fieldwork recordings (copies) for Staffordshire locations 12St5-10. The original recordings were made in 1955 and 1965. The date when this copy tape was made ...