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Theakston's of Masham: A Study of the Traditional Craft of Brewing
Halliday, Robert Wilson
[1973]
M.A. dissertation which contains a brief description of Masham, with an account of the history of the brewery and the Theakston family, and chapters on the process of making beer, the brewery premises...
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...
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' (...
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...
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...
Sound Recordings, East Sussex, Somerset, [Devon] and Kent
[1950s]
Compilation of extracts copied from Survey of English Dialects field recordings made in the south of England. The first extract is from an interview with Harry Burghess [Burgess], made by Michael B...
Hops and Hop-Picking
[ca. late 1960s]
This file contains items collected for P. K. Kemp's undergraduate dissertation on migrant hop-pickers in Kent, submitted to the Institute of Dialect and Folk Life Studies in 1970. The includes a photo...
Sound Recordings, Somerset and Gloucestershire
Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)
[1950s]
Compilation of extracts from field recordings made as part of the Survey of English Dialects. Informant from Stogumber talks about cidermaking - factories and modern changes, the price of apples, c...
Dialect recording in Wall, Northumberland
Lenihan, J M A
Jun 1939
[Side 1] Brief conversation about work, humorous exchange about friend's bayonet feats during World War 1, recall various pranks incl. once putting ducks down postman's chimney. [Side 2] Ned tells an ...
The Farmer Cider-Maker in North and Central Somerset
Coleman, D N
1966
A thesis concerned with those Somerset cider-makers who combine cider-making with farming activities. The core of the study is the description of processes and equipment based on fieldwork carried out...
Sound Recording, Somerset
Ihalainen, Ossi
July 1972
Jack Spencer, recorded at home in Westhay on 15 July 1972; describes haymaking, including raking, work breaks, harnessing horses, loading waggons, drink, rick making, dinner time, food, tea, evening w...
Migrant Hop-Pickers in Kent
Kemp, P K
1970
A dissertation in seven sections, covering hop-picking in Kent from the end of the nineteenth century to 1970. The first section gives a description of the hop and its distribution and uses, putting i...