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Dialectology in London
Leith, Richard
1971
M.A. dissertation presenting a study of the vowel phonemes in the idiolects of three people from north London ( Stepney, Hoxton and Kilburn), with the purpose of identifying any distinctive local vari...
Sound Recordings, London
Beels, Gillian Rosemary
[1972]
London market street sellers' patter, selling various household items on Oxford Street and in Petticoat Lane Market. Eleven traders recorded.
Street Cries of London
Beels, Gillian Rosemary
1972
A study of the cries of London street traders, divided into two parts. The first traces the history and development of street cries, whilst the second considers the situation existing in 1972. The lat...
Sound Recording, London
Wetton, Anne Lindsey
1974
Susan Carr [studying French at the University of Leeds], recorded in Abbey Wood on the 30 January 1974; sings and discusses a parody of the song 'Don't Go Down the Mine Dad', 'Don't Jump Off the Roof ...
Sound Recordings, London
Dunn, Ginette
1974
George Belton, recorded in the Rising Sun pub in Catford on 21 May 1974; sings 'All Jolly Fellows that Follow the Plough', 'Never No More for Me'; tells joke about two men in a psychiatric hospital; s...
Sound Recording, London
Dunn, Ginette
5 June 1974
George Belton, recorded at the Dingles Folk Club; sings 'The Lad in the Scotch Brigade', 'I am a Roving Navvy Man', 'All Jolly Fellows that Follow the Plough', 'Never No More for Me', 'The Sussex Toas...
Sound Recording, London
Schrut, Judith Lynne
7 January 1977
[Collector announcement]; Joe Benjamin, recorded in his home in Dalston; gives biographical details, talks about his parents' occupations (both immigrants from Lithuania), his siblings (and cousins) l...
Sound Recording, London
Green, Anthony E (1943-)
18 September 1971
[Collector announcement]; Edith Davis, recorded at home in North West London, talks about her early childhood in the Gloucestershire village of Made for Ever; schooling (fish and chip lunches), villag...
Middlesex and London Response Books
Wright, Peter
1952
Response books, completed in ms. phonetic script, recording the answers of informants from Survey of English Dialects (SED) localities in Middlesex and London to the Dieth-Orton Questionnaire. Respons...
Essex, Middlesex and London Responses
[1960s]
This sub-subseries contains editorial sheets created during the first phase of this post-fieldwork editing of Survey of English Dialects (SED) responses collected in Essex, Middlesex and London. These...
The Dialect of Leytonstone, East London
Werth, P N
1965
A study of the dialect spoken in Leytonstone, East London, based on answers given by one female informant to questions from books V-VIII of the Dieth-Orton Questionnaire. These were collected during t...
Sound Recordings, Kent and London
Kemp, P K
September 1969
Bill Selsdon, recorded in Maidstone, describes hop picking in Headcorn (Kent) as a child with his family; accommodation in Hopper Huts; travelling from London (on the Hopping Train); hop picking seaso...