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Total number of records: 22

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culture22
folk music22
english language - dialects20
community life18
occupations16
agriculture13
manners and customs12
play9
religion8
entertainment events7

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Sullivan, Keith Frederick22
Hart, William4
Simpson, Thomas4
Hayes, Raymond (1909-2000)2
Wilkinson, Jim2
Wilkinson, Mrs2
Bennett, Mrs1
Bennett, Ray1
Foster, Jack1
Foster, Ralph1

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Sound Recording, North Yorkshire

Sullivan, Keith Frederick

9 September 1976

[Collector announcement]; Oswald Welford, recorded at home in Roxby; recites some of the words to the song 'Farmer Giles', and sings a fragment; talks about singing and dances; mother's musical abilit...

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Sound Recording, North Yorkshire

Sullivan, Keith Frederick

19 March 1976

Thomas Simpson, recorded at home in Lebberston; sings 'All Jolly Fellows that Follow the Plough', [first line: 'When I was a jolly young ploughboy'], 'Farmer's Boy' and [first line: 'Come with me to t...

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Sound Recording, North Yorkshire

Sullivan, Keith Frederick

8 September 1976

[Collector announcement]; Will White, recorded at home in Ugthorpe; talks about singing; living at the Black Bull pub; pub singing; biographical details; running the pub with his wife; also mixed farm...

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Sound Recording, Redcar and Cleveland

Sullivan, Keith Frederick

1 December 1976

[Collector announcement]; William Hart, recorded at home in Wilton; talks about a folk club, the Half Moon pub in Lazenby - singing there before and after marriage; song repertoire; sings 'All Jolly F...

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Sound Recording, Redcar and Cleveland

Sullivan, Keith Frederick

7 February 1976

[Collector announcement]; William Hart, recorded at home in Wilton ; sings 'Out in the Wild World'; talks about his father and his employment on local farms and ironstone mines, his death in 1930; WH ...

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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]. Sings 'Out in the Wild World'; talks about learning tunes from his fa...

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Sound Recording, North Yorkshire

Sullivan, Keith Frederick

2 April 1976

[Collector announcement]; Fred Lynley, recorded at home in Rosedale Abbey; talks about miners' cottages; changes in farming methods; peat digging and turf as fuel; local employment; cost of living; le...

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Sound Recording, North Yorkshire

Sullivan, Keith Frederick

11 September 1976

[Collector announcement] informant, recorded at home in Tranmire, talks about his marriage and family; offers thoughts on modern families and children; sings 'Beautiful Dreamer'; talks about Catholics...

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Sound Recording, North Yorkshire

Sullivan, Keith Frederick

11 September 1976

[Collector announcement]; Mrs. Weatherill and daughter Linda, recorded at home in Ainthorpe. Mrs. W. sings 'My Grandfather's Clock', 'Farmer's Boy' and one verse of 'Springtime in the Rockies'; talks ...

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Sound Recording, North Yorkshire

Sullivan, Keith Frederick

3 January 1977

[Collector announcement]; Jim Wilkinson, recorded at home in Tranmire; sings 'Yarmouth Town' [daughter Rachel Wilkinson joins in the chorus]; talks about learning songs; sings part of 'Shoals of Herri...

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Sound Recording, North Yorkshire

Sullivan, Keith Frederick

9 September 1976

[Collector announcement]; Jacky Gallon, recorded at home in Ugthorpe; talks about his retirement; farm work from the age of fourteen; changes in farming methods, mechanisation; Hiring Fairs; pay; Mart...

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Sound Recording, North Yorkshire

Sullivan, Keith Frederick

26 November 1976

Singing as part of the Ugthorpe Quoits Club Quoits Supper, recorded in the Black Bull pub, Ugthorpe. Conclusion of session which starts on LAVC/SRE/A454r. Male sings 'The Rose of Tralee' and 'Will You...

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