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Pace Egg and Mumming Plays, and Christmas Carols
Addy, Sidney Oldall (1848-1933)
[1970s]
This file contains a photocopy (made in the early 1970s) of part of an ms. notebook, with printed extracts pasted in, compiled by Sidney Oldall Addy probably during the 1870s. This includes ms. notes ...
Clapham Town End Manuscript
Buck, Charles William (1851-1932)
[1960s-1970s]
This file contains a photocopy of an ms. collection of song texts and tunes, made by Dr. Charles William Buck of Giggleswick (North Yorkshire), ca. 1885-1902. Many of the songs appear to have been har...
Morris Dancing
1963-1979
This file contains a colour section from the West Yorkshire Road Car Company calendar for 1963 on Morris dancing at Bampton, Oxfordshire; a photocopy of Roy Judge's ms. bibliography on the Cotswold Mo...
Sound Recording, Cheshire
England, Alan
12 December 1970
William England, recorded at home in Northwich; recollects his involvement in the Cheshire [? Comberbach] soul-caking tradition; talks about soul-caking during World War One and the proceeds going tow...
Sound Recordings, Oxfordshire, Wiltshire and Gloucestershire
Baldwin, John R
1966
George Powell, recorded in Wigginton; sings 'Jim the Carter's Lad' [fragment], 'Beer Beer Glorious Beer' [fragment] and 'Joan's Ale'. [Tr. 1] Tom Timms and George Powell, recorded in Wigginton. Tom ...
Sound Recordings, Oxfordshire
Harrop, Peter K
29 May 1978
Bampton Morris Dancersdancing outside in Bampton, with musical accompaniment on an accordion and fiddle. ?Recorded at a gala/fete event - crowd noise and public address announcement is audible. [Tr. 9...
Sound Recording, North Yorkshire
Green, Anthony E (1943-)
26 October 1973
Frank Weatherill, recorded at home in Danby; sings an unidentified song about farmers' lads; relates anecdotes/stories regarding a dog and a hare, dialect, friends reunited, father quarrying and workm...
Sound Recordings, Cambridgeshire
Tammivaara, Irmeli
July 1974
[Collector announcement]; Mary Dawson, recorded in Doddington on the 8 July 1974; recollects her childhood in Doddington; marriage; children; skating matches; changes to the village; trandling for bir...
Sound Recording, Devon
Read, John (1884-1963)
8 July 1958
[John Read announcement]; John Read, recorded at the home of his friend, Victor Bonham-Carter, in East Anstey, giving his recollections of country life and the dialect in south-eastern Somerset. Talks...
Sound Recordings, Oxfordshire, Gloucestershire and Wiltshire
Baldwin, John R
1968-1969
Mrs. D. Brooks and Mr. Coombs [?brother and sister], recorded in Shipton-under-Wychwood in 1968. Mrs. Brooks describes her husband playing a horse game. [Tr. 1] Mr. Coombs sings 'The Old Leather Bri...
English Dialect Sound Recordings (Northern England)
Hornsby, G; Lenihan, J M A; Orton, Harold (1898-1975); Riddell, William
[1939]
The majority of recordings were made for the Survey of Northumbrian Dialects, in 1938 and 1939. This survey was inaugurated at Armstrong College, Newcastle-upon-Tyne (then part of the University of Du...