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Total number of records: 20

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community life20
war20
culture16
occupations16
agriculture14
education11
english language - dialects11
food11
folk music10
manners and customs10

Top 10: People and organisations

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Dunn, Ginette5
Webb, Percy3
Barry, Michael V (1935-)2
Ling, Percy (1906-1982)2
Panheinen, Ossi2
Pasanen, Leena2
Sullivan, Keith Frederick2
Upton, Clive S2
Aldous, Leonard1
Anderton, Stanley (1876-1876)1

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Sound Recording, West Yorkshire

Cooke, Jane A

[1979]

Mrs. Wood, recorded in Birdsedge; gives biographical details and information on her schooling in Ridgeway, Derbyshire, and Sheffield; describes the school at Ridgeway and playtimes (in the mid 1940s);...

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Dialect recording in Wall, Northumberland

Lenihan, J M A

Jun 1939

[Side 1] Memories of various pranks incl. putting hen down neighbour's chimney and friends taking blame, remember Margaret Henderson selling tobacco for halfpenny, anecdote about Ned Telfer persuading...

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Sound Recordings, [Liverpool]

Bond, Francis Keith

[1973/1974]

Kathy Bond [collector's mother] relates her recollections of living in the Huyton area of Liverpool during World War Two - air raids, prisoners-of-war, transit camps, VJ Day celebrations, rationing, m...

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Sound Recordings, Lincolnshire

Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009); Tilling, Philip M (1938-); Barry, Michael V (1935-)

[1967-1980]

Compilation of Survey of English Dialects fieldwork recordings (copies) for Lincolnshire locations 10L4-15. The original recordings were made in 1952, 1953, 1960 and 1967. The date when this copy tape...

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Sound Recordings, Suffolk

Pasanen, Leena

August 1971

[Collector announcement]; Mr. Goddard, recorded at home in Helmingham on the 13 August 1971; talks about his experience of World War One in France (1914-1916); joining an Indian division attached to a...

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Sound Recording, North Yorkshire

Sullivan, Keith Frederick

29 March 1976

[Collector announcement]; David Hartley, recorded at home in Castleton[wife also present]; gives biographical details; talks about his wife; father's tenant farm; exemption from service during World W...

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Sound Recording, North Yorkshire

Sullivan, Keith Frederick

18 March 1976

[Collector announcement]; Thomas Simpson, recorded at home in Lebberston; sings 'It's a Long Way to Tipperary'; talks about personal changes in employment after World War Two, and his move away from f...

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Sound Recordings, [Dorset]

Panheinen, Ossi

[1970]

Mr. Paull [location not given] relates his experiences of fighting in World War One; the Somme in 1917 and being wounded; convalescence in Wyke Regis; Paschendale Ridge; the Somme; working life after ...

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Sound Recordings, Devon

Panheinen, Ossi

[1970]

Mr. Reed [location not given] talks about his family; farming for 54 years; ploughing with horses; his role as Church Warden and the role of the Church Council; reference to Lord Sidmouth and Lady Sid...

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Sound Recording, Suffolk

Dunn, Ginette

2 October 1974

Basil Bennett, recorded at home in Snape; talks about learning songs whilst in the Army and the Navy - 'I'm in Love with Two Sweethearts' and 'Farewell My Own True Love'; his and other people's repert...

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Sound Recordings, Suffolk

Dunn, Ginette

November 1974

Singing at the Ship Inn, Blaxhall, on the 15 November 1974. Percy Ling tells jokes; Geoff Ling sings 'In the Shade of the Old Apple Tree'; Cyril Poacher attempts 'The Bonny Bunch of Roses' (twice); Bo...

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Sound Recordings, Suffolk

Pasanen, Leena

July-August 1971

[Collector announcement]; George Creasy, recorded at home in Framsdenon the 30 July 1971; recites the monologues 'Bill and Bob' and 'Harvest Carting in Suffolk'; talks about his working life on local ...

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