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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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...