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Total number of records: 22

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SubjectCount
culture22
folk music22
english language - dialects18
community life9
persons7
manners and customs6
occupations6
play6
agriculture4
education4

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Green, Anthony E (1943-)10
Sullivan, Keith Frederick4
Dunn, Ginette3
Lyons, James3
Simpson, Thomas3
Beresford, Jackie2
Boothman, Tim2
Harris, Norman2
Hart, Bob (1892-1978)2
Lyons, Kathleen2

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Sound Recordings, Cheshire

Harrop, Peter K

4 November 1977

[Announcement by Graham Seal]; Antrobus Soul-Cakers perform their soul-caking play in Antrobus Parish Hall [?for an audience of schoolchildren]. Includes the complete play, with introductory and closi...

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Sound Recordings, South Ayrshire and South Lanarkshire

Czerkawska, Catherine Lucy

1974

James Cook, recorded at home in Maybole on 2 April 1974. Conversation re. fishing and village life; fishermen from Maidens selling fish; occupational folklore re. red-haired women; village community; ...

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Sound Recording, Suffolk

Dunn, Ginette

8 September 1974

Bob Hart and Lenny Townsend singing in the Horse and Groom pub, Wrentham. BH sings 'On a Summer's Night', 'Banks of Sweet Primroses'and 'Long Trail A-Winding'; BH and George ? sing 'Red Sails in the S...

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Sound Recording, North Yorkshire

Sullivan, Keith Frederick

11 December 1976

[Collector announcement]; Thomas Simpson, recorded at home in Lebberston; talks about his song repertoire; sings 'Since I've Had a Row with the Wife'; recitation about two Yorkshire lads in London; re...

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Sound Recording, North Yorkshire

Sullivan, Keith Frederick

3 January 1977

[Collector announcement]; Jim Wilkinson, recorded at home in Tranmire; sings 'Yarmouth Town' [daughter Rachel Wilkinson joins in the chorus]; talks about learning songs; sings part of 'Shoals of Herri...

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Sound Recording, [Northumberland]

Harrison, Stephen

6 August 1976

Archie Dagg, recorded at home [in Sharperton], talks about making Northumbrian small-pipes; how he started; equipment and techniques used; family; competition with Marjorie Bell; playing the pipes; se...

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Sound Recording, North Yorkshire

Sullivan, Keith Frederick

11 February 1975

[Collector announcement]; Thomas Simpson, recorded at home in Lebberston; sings [unidentified]; sings 'Since I've Had a Row with the Wife'; talks about and sings his version of 'My Grandfather's Clock...

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Sound Recording, North Yorkshire

Sullivan, Keith Frederick

19 March 1976

Thomas Simpson, recorded at home in Lebberston; sings 'All Jolly Fellows that Follow the Plough', [first line: 'When I was a jolly young ploughboy'], 'Farmer's Boy' and [first line: 'Come with me to t...

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Sound Recordings, Suffolk

Dunn, Ginette

July 1974

Bob Hart, recorded at home in Snape on the 16 July 1974, sings and comments on 'Great Red Dawn'; attempts 'When the Sunset Turns the Ocean Blue to Gold'; sings 'The Firemen' (song sung in school); sin...

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Sound Recording, West Yorkshire

Cheichel, Edna

1970

Various informants recorded at Donisthorpe Hall Old People's Home in Leeds. Leizer Gold sings unidentified song; male sings unidentified song; male ( Rabbi Safer) relates an incident, and other inform...

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Sound Recording, Suffolk

Dunn, Ginette

2 July 1975

Ben Ling, recorded at home in Blaxhall; talks about singing when younger, and learning to sing; singing at school, and during his time in the Army (in France, field artillery); farm work with his uncl...

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Sound Recordings, [West Yorkshire]

Green, Anthony E (1943-)

1964-1966

Unedited Field Master tape. Female sings [2 unidentified], recorded in a ?pub/?social club. [Tr. 1] Male [possibly James Lyons] sings [ 'Come All You Young Fellows'], 'Down by the Tanyard Side', [...

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