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Sound Recording, East Riding of Yorkshire
Chamberlain, John S
July/August 1961
Schoolboy [? Stephen Sissons, recorded in a pub in Wetwang] describes children's games - jacks, hide and seek (including the dipping rhyme 'One Potato Two Potato'), Block (similar to hide and seek), B...
Notes for Thesis
Whitfield, Jean
1963
This file contains draft ms./typed notes relating to a proposed thesis, 'Survey Work in Folklore: A Critical Examination of Sources and Methods'. The author, Jean Whitfield, is described by Angela Cli...
Survey of English Dialects recording in Harwood, Lancashire
Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)
Feb 1954
[Side 1] Polly tells series of anecdotes: recalls woman's 'boa' [= fur stole] blowing off in wind and being mistaken for snake and buried in churchyard, remembers sexton digging grave early one mornin...
Sound Recording, West Yorkshire
Ingham, Julianne A; Andrew, Yolande
December 1979
Examples of games, rhymes and songs collected from children at Quarry Mount Primary School in Leeds.
Sound Recordings, Greater Manchester
Waller, Vivien M
1961-1962
Schoolgirls give examples of skipping rhymes and chants, explanations of circle and chasing games. Edited compilation of fieldwork recordings made in schools in Salford, Eccles, Hulme and Walkden ( Gr...
The Games of Junior School Children
Waters, Janice
1964
A descriptive account of schoolchildren's games, with reference to the printed collections of a number of childlore scholars. Textual transcriptions are included, but it is unclear whether these were ...
Children's Games and Rhymes
Kenworthy, Valerie D
1965
A collection of children's games and rhymes collected from boys and girls of the second form of Ossett Grammar School in West Yorkshire. The contributors were then resident in Ossett, Wakefield and Ho...
Sound Recordings, [Italy]
Institute of Early Childhood Development
[1970s]
This is the third of four Italian tapes in the 'Multicultural Cassette Series: Stories, Songs and Rhymes for Young Children', produced by Gwenda Davey and recorded by Norman O'Conner (Victoria: Instit...
Sound Recordings, [Macedonia]
Institute of Early Childhood Development
[1970s]
This is the first of two Macedonian tapes in the 'Multicultural Cassette Series: Stories, Songs and Rhymes for Young Children', produced by Gwenda Davey and recorded by Norman O'Conner (Victoria: Inst...
Sound Recording, Norway
Bystad, Berit
4 April 1973
Recordings made in Norway. Schoolchildren give examples of singing games and rhymes; [?collector announcement]; Norwegian women sing and talk about singing games and rhymes; [?collector announcement];...
Sound Recording, Derbyshire
Russell, Ian
September-October 1970
Children of Unstone Community Junior Middle School, Unstone, give examples of clapping, singing, ring and skipping games. Recorded in school and in the playground.
Children's Games, Rhymes and Songs
Helliwell, Annette
1964
A collection of children's games, rhymes and songs collected in five Manchester and Leeds schools. The collected items have been classified according to function - skipping, ball, action and team game...