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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...

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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.

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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...

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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 ...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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