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community life6
entertainment events6
manners and customs6
social life and customs4
culture3
holidays3
buildings2
english language - dialects2
folk dancing2
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Kissling, Werner (1895-1988)2
Ward, James2
Buckland, Theresa Jill1
Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)1
Levison, Bob1
Pickering, Michael J1
Robert1
Thacker, Thomas1
Waters, Bob1
Webb, Charlie1
Bartle (West Witton Bartle Fair)
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Bartle (West Witton Bartle Fair)

Kissling, Werner (1895-1988)

24 August 1967

Mr. James Ward of West Witton ( Wensleydale) with a young boy, putting the finishing touches to the Bartle for the West Witton Bartle Fair. The Bartle is a guy that will be burned on a bonfire as part...

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Bartle (West Witton Bartle Fair)
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Bartle (West Witton Bartle Fair)

Kissling, Werner (1895-1988)

24 August 1967

Mr. James Ward of West Witton ( Wensleydale) putting the finishing touches to the Bartle for the West Witton Bartle Fair. The Bartle is a guy that will be burned on a bonfire as part of the fair celeb...

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Preston Guild Photographs

[1974]

The two photographs show street scenes in Preston relating to the activities of the Preston Guild. The first shows decorations adorning houses and street furniture; the second a street party, with chi...

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Sound Recording, Durham

Pickering, Michael J

5 April 1974

Professor Thomas Thacker, recorded at home in Durham; gives his recollections of Janet Bluntin the late 1920s/early 1930s; attitudes of villagers to her and vice versa; her family, folk song collectin...

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Ceremonial Dance Traditions in the South-West Pennines and Rossendale

Buckland, Theresa Jill

1984

Ph.D. thesis in five parts. Part One provides a discussion of theory and method, and information on the socio-historical background to the area in which fieldwork was carried out. Part Two covers danc...

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Survey of English Dialects recording in Ellington, Northumberland. Survey of English Dialects recording in Binfield Heath, Oxfordshire

Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)

Feb 1953

Side 1 is Ellington recording (12 Feb 1953). Side 2 is Binfield Heath recording (24 Feb 1953).[Side 1]Bob Levison describes working as farm worker aged 12 to 17, then working in mine for 40 years, com...

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