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Total number of records: 30
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Sound Recording, [Norfolk]
Summers, Keith
[1971]
Very poor quality copy of a recording of the singer and accordion player Bob Roberts, possibly made in Norwich at the Norwich Folk Festival. He sings (accompanied and unaccompanied), and also tells hu...
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...
Dialect recording in Rothbury, Northumberland
Orton, Harold (1898-1975)
10 Mar 1939
[Side 1] Florrie recites the story of the little mouse and the old tom cat in Rothbury dialect; Florrie, Billy and Charlie talk about fishing (first few seconds inaudible). [Side 2] Billy and Charlie ...
Sound Recordings, Suffolk
Dunn, Ginette
1975
George Bennett[?recorded at home in Snape in 1975]. His ?wife/?sister is also present. Sings 'Little Jimmy Tiddler', ''Mid Shot and Shell' [words indistinct], 'I Have a Saviour'; information on 'Littl...
Sound Recordings, Hertfordshire and Cambridgeshire
Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)
[1950s]
Male informant, recorded in Therfield; talks about ploughing with horses; the self-binder; horse-driven threshing machine; storing corn, and selling at [?Royston] Corn Exchange; taking wheat to mill f...
Sound Recordings, Oxfordshire
Morson, I F
1966-1969
Jim Willding, recorded in the Baker's Arms pub, Oxford, on the 5 December 1967; sings [unidentified, with accordion], 'Cock of the North'; conversation; 'Banks of the Sweet Primroses', 'Daisybell', 'I...
Sound Recordings, Cambridgeshire
Tammivaara, Irmeli
July 1975
[Collector announcement]; Wally Hull, recorded at Little Downham on the 15 July 1975 [continued from tape LAVC/SRE/A672r]; talks about winter weather; skating and champion skaters; his work as a postm...
Sound Recordings, Wiltshire and Oxfordshire
Baldwin, John R
1968-1969
Session recorded at Swindon Folksingers' Club in 1968 [?possibly a regional English Folk Dance and Song Society- organised Christmas event]; accordion tune; unidentified male sings [? 'Can You Dance t...
Sound Recordings, Berkshire, Surrey, Essex and West Sussex
Barry, Michael V (1935-)
1959
[Collector announcement]; Charles Allen, recorded in West Ilsley; talks about ploughing with horses; ploughing with tractors; compares past and present; describes a working day on the farm; the villag...
Sound Recording, Suffolk
Dunn, Ginette
21 June 1975
James Smith, recorded at home in Snape; talks about the song 'The Cobbler' and the use of props; sings the song, learned/sung in the Crown pub, Snape, around fifty years ago; singing in the Golden Key...
Sound Recording, Suffolk
Dunn, Ginette
July 1974
Session recorded at the Everyman Folk Club, Leiston Sports Centre, on 12 July 1974. Bob Hart sings 'Comrades'[incomplete] and 'What a Funny Little Place to Have One'; Percy Webb sings 'Flash Company' ...
Sound Recordings, Suffolk
Dunn, Ginette
1974
Music/song session at the Ship Inn, Blaxhall, recorded on 6 September 1974. Fred List plays a number of popular tunes on the accordion (with some singing by the assembled company), including 'Wild Col...