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holidays50
manners and customs50
community life45
buildings42
culture41
occupations29
rites and ceremonies29
social life and customs29
play24
dwellings22

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)5
Caunce, Stephen4
Morris, Patricia M3
Siporin, Rae Lee3
Tammivaara, Irmeli3
Barry, Michael V (1935-)2
Cooke, Jane A2
Dunn, Ginette2
Gledhill, James2
Metcalf, Olive2

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Sound Recording, Oxfordshire

Pickering, Michael J

25 March 1978

Fanny Hitchman, recorded in Adderbury; sings two songs. The first is a May song, the second is titled 'Dame Crump'. [Tr. 1] Male informant, recorded at home, remembers inhabitants of Adderbury; waln...

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Sound Recording, West Yorkshire

Morris, Patricia M

17 September 1981

[Collector announcement]; Olive Metcalf, recorded at home in the Kirkstall area of Leeds; talks about living in back-to-back housing, Greenhow Walk; housework, including cleaning, gas lamps, cooking, ...

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Dialect recording in Heywood, Lancashire

Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)

24 Sep 1956

[Side 1] Sam and Jack tell series of anecdotes about local characters, recall bets and dares, memories of pranks on bonfire night, cost of alcohol in past. [Side 2] Sam and Jack recall warm ale and fo...

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Sound Recordings, West Yorkshire

Thomson, Sydney

November 1972

Children of Armley Park School, recorded in Leeds on the 17 November 1972; talk about joke and story telling; stories about local women thought to be witches; collector talks about trick or treating; ...

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Sound Recording, West Yorkshire

Morris, Patricia M

October 1981

Dorothy Ibbotson, recorded at home in the Kirkstall area of Leeds; sings 'The Warrior's Little Boy' (learned from her grandmother), and talks about her attempts to trace the song's origins; gives biog...

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Fifty Years of Wragby Life

Sutton, Diane

1980

A dissertation which looks at life in the Lincolnshire village of Wragby during the first fifty years of the twentieth century. The information it presents is based on the memories and printed ephemer...

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Appleby Horse Fair: Caravans
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Appleby Horse Fair: Caravans

Caunce, Stephen

June 1972

View of modern Gypsy Traveller caravans on the residential site at Appleby Horse Fair, Appleby (Cumbria). Mounted on Photo File card with LAVC/PHO/P1605.

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Jubilee Celebrations (Preston Guild)

22 April 1974

Copy of a photograph taken in 1952 of a street scene in Preston (Lancashire), showing houses and street furniture adorned with decorations for jubilee celebrations by the Preston Guild.

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Preston Guild Photographs

[1974]

The two photographs show street scenes in Preston relating to the activities of the Preston Guild. The first shows decorations adorning houses and street furniture; the second a street party, with chi...

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Appleby Horse Fair: Carts

Caunce, Stephen

June 1972

Three Gypsy Traveller children standing in front of wooden rag-and-bone carts at Appleby Horse Fair, Appleby (Cumbria). Modern Gypsy Traveller caravans are visible in the background. Mounted on Photo ...

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Jubilee Celebrations (Preston Guild)

22 April 1974

Copy of a photograph taken in 1952 of a street scene in Preston (Lancashire), showing a street party, organised by the Preston Guild, with children seated at long tables.

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Sound Recordings, Isle of Wight, Wiltshire and Berkshire

Kylstra, Henk E; Barry, Michael V (1935-)

1959-1960

[Collector announcement]; Mr. M. Sheath, recorded in Whitwell (Isle of Wight) in April 1959, by Henk Kylstra; talks about the uses for farm waggons and carts; the decline in the use of horses; ploughi...

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