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Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)1
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Archive File

Glimpses of Industrial Bradford

Fieldhouse, Elizabeth Mary

1972

A study comprising six sections. The Introduction presents a history of the woollen and worsted industries, whilst the second section outlines phases in industrial development, from the guild and dome...

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Sound Recording, West Yorkshire

Morales, Carmen

15 May 1977

Mrs. Longstaffe, her son Sidney and her sister, Florrie, talk about working in the Dewsbury textile industry. The speakers were recorded in the home of Mr. Gallon and Mrs. Gallon in Dewsbury. Mrs. Lon...

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Courtship and Marriage; Death and Funerals

1962-1980

This file contains items on marriage customs, death and funeral customs and beliefs, and ghosts. This includes ms. and typed correspondence between R. W. Crosland and Tony Green on the custom of biddi...

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Archive Sub-series

Towns

1968-1979

This subseries, comprising a single file only, contains items relating to aspects of towns and town life. This includes Stella Margetson's article on Victorian pantomime, focussing on London theatres,...

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Sound Recording, Oxfordshire

Pickering, Michael J

September/October 1973

Winnie Wyatt, recorded at home in Adderbury, talks about Janet Blunt's folk song collecting, and people's perceptions of her in Adderbury; musical afternoons/evenings at her house; singing in the loca...

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Sound Recordings, Shropshire

Hubbard, Wendy E

October-November 1958

[Collector announcement]; William Moore, [?recorded in Albrighton (Shropshire)], talks about his father's haulage business; harvesting; the weather; his father; a motorbike; an anecdote about retrievi...

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Sound Recording, West Yorkshire

Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)

1958

George Moorhouse and Annie Moorhouse, recorded in Windhill; talk about houses and housing; animal keeping; upbringings; [textile] mill work; vandalism and modern children; anecdotes about various loca...

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