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Total number of records: 53

Top 10: Subject

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culture53
food53
beverages42
community life41
occupations41
english language - dialects36
agriculture30
food crops26
manners and customs26
nature26

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Dunn, Ginette10
Orton, Harold (1898-1975)7
Panheinen, Ossi5
Wright, John T5
Kylstra, Henk E4
Bulmer, A Gillian2
Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)2
Ernest2
Ling, Ruby2
Maynard, George (1900-1900)2

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Somerset Cider Making

Gallon, K S

1966

An investigation of cider makers employing methods considered as within the West Country tradition of making, i.e. still sharing basic similarities with recorded descriptions of the methods used by si...

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Cider-Making and Brewing

1962-1975

This file contains items relating to brewing beer and cider-making, including a photocopy of Eric Sample's article on small breweries in Derby, from an unidentified issue of 'Derbyshire Countryside' (...

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Sound Recordings, Oxfordshire and Gloucestershire

Baldwin, John R

1969

Mrs. I. M. Brown and Mrs. Cotmore [?sisters], recorded in Oxford in 1969. Recitation of the words to 'I had a Little Donkey', and the monologues 'Sally and Her Sweetheart', and 'Little Boy and the Err...

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Sound Recordings, Herefordshire

Bulmer, A Gillian

[1974-1976]

Mr. Reeves, ex-employee of H. P. Bulmer (cider producers), and curator of Leominster Museum, relates a story of a woman who, thinking they were dead, plucked some geese to take to Leominster market. W...

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SED Word Map: To Brew Tea
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SED Word Map: To Brew Tea

Orton, Harold (1898-1975)

[1950s-1960s]

Experimental printed word map, completed in ms., for SED question V.8.9, to Brew Tea, mapping responses Mas(k), Mash, Wet, and Soak. The map was created by Harold Orton.

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SED Word Map: To Brew Tea

Orton, Harold (1898-1975)

[1960s-mid-1970s]

Experimental printed word map, completed in ms., for SED question V.8.9, to Brew tea, mapping responses Brew, Make and Scald. The map was compiled by Harold Orton.

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SED Word Map: To Brew Tea
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SED Word Map: To Brew Tea

Orton, Harold (1898-1975); North, David J

[Mid-1960s-mid-1970s]

Experimental printed word map for SED question V.8.9, to Brew tea, mapping responses Draw, Make, Scald and Steep. The map was compiled by Harold Orton and David North, and is dated 1963.

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SED Word Map: to Brew Tea
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SED Word Map: to Brew Tea

[1960s-mid-1970s]

Experimental printed word map for SED question V.8.9, to Brew Tea, mapping the response Brew, and the limits of the responses Mash, Mask, Soak and Wet. At the base of the map is a note on excluded res...

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SED Word Map: To Brew Tea
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SED Word Map: To Brew Tea

Orton, Harold (1898-1975); North, David J

[Mid-1960s-mid-1970s]

Experimental printed word map for SED question V.8.9, to Brew tea, mapping responses Draw, Make, Scald and Steep.

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SED Word Map: To Brew Tea
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SED Word Map: To Brew Tea

Orton, Harold (1898-1975)

[1960s-mid-1970s]

Experimental printed word map, completed in ms. in colour, for SED question V.8.9, to Brew Tea, mapping the limits of responses Mash, Mas(k), Soak and Wet. The map was compiled by Harold Orton.

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SED Word Map: To Brew Tea
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SED Word Map: To Brew Tea

Orton, Harold (1898-1975)

[1960s-mid-1970s]

Experimental printed word map, completed in ms. in colour, for SED question V.8.9, to Brew Tea, mapping responses Brew, Make and Scald. The map was compiled by Harold Orton.

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SED Word Map: To Brew Tea
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SED Word Map: To Brew Tea

Orton, Harold (1898-1975)

[1960s-mid 1970s]

Experimental printed word map, completed in ms., for SED question V.8.9, to Brew Tea, mapping the distribution of responses Mas(k), Mash, Wet, and Soak. The map was compiled by Harold Orton.

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