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Total number of records: 111

Top 10: Subject

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community life111
education111
food111
occupations100
agriculture81
nature80
animals73
culture68
manners and customs66
food crops58

Top 10: People and organisations

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Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)23
Barry, Michael V (1935-)12
Dunn, Ginette10
Tammivaara, Irmeli8
Panheinen, Ossi6
Pasanen, Leena6
Tilling, Philip M (1938-)5
Crook, Rosemary4
Evans, George Ewart (1909-1988)4
Siporin, Rae Lee4

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Dialect recording in Lowick, Northumberland

Orton, Harold (1898-1975)

Jul 1939

[Side 1] Jack and Bill talk about gardening, discuss 'teddies' [= potato] crop, onions, roses, mushrooms, cabbages, Brussels sprouts, broccoli. [Side 2] Jack and Bill reminisce about schooldays (frequ...

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Sound Recordings, North Lincolnshire

Haldenby, Cynthia

August 1958

George Gilliat, recorded in Winterton; talks about his working life; childhood recollections of making ?cowbands and tending calves; farm pay, attitudes to work; work with horses; horse breaking; pare...

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Sound Recordings, Cambridgeshire and Essex

Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)

[1961]

Male informant, recorded in Comberton; talks about working on a farm from the age of eleven; his father and his farming; thatchers in the family; informant learning to thatch; describes a day's work; ...

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Sound Recordings, Somerset

Mitchell, Sarah L G

1978-1979

[Collector announcement: informant collector's mother]; E. M. Mitchell, of Bath, talks about present-day Christmas traditions - shopping, cards, present buying, house decorations; Christmas Eve tradit...

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Survey of English Dialects recording in Diddlebury, Shropshire. Survey of English Dialects recording in Montford, Shropshire

Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009); Sykes, Donald Richard

Jan 1955

[Side 1] Harry describes how to 'pleach' [= intertwine branches of brushwood to form/repair hedge] hedge, discusses farm buildings, incl. 'wain-house' [= cart-shed], describes layout of cow-shed, incl...

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Beastings Research

Brunk, Wille

[1967]

Items relating to Wille Brunk's research into beastings, i.e. the first milk drawn from a cow after calving (or bovine colostrum), and its uses. Brunk conducted much of this research through the use o...

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Sound Recording, West Yorkshire

Evans, George Ewart (1909-1988)

26 July 1972

Female, recorded in Leeds; talks about her career as Manageress of the Refectory at the University of Leeds (1935-1941). Describes the University in 1935; campus buildings; building scheme (demolition...

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Sound Recording, Staffordshire

Higgs, Judith

March 1973

[Announcement, made by collector's mother, a nurse visiting the informant]; Richard Mills and his wife recorded in Walsall Wood; Mr. Mills sings 'The Old Folks Jim', 'A Lady in Hospital' and 'I'm Foll...

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The Lore and Language of the Children at the Herman Junior School, Gorleston, Great Yarmouth

Triggs, Tony D

1968

A study of the lore and language of fourth-year schoolchildren at Herman Junior School, Gorleston in Norfolk, based on answers given to a questionnaire compiled by the collector. The sections containe...

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Survey of English Dialects recording in Lowick, Northumberland

Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)

14 Feb 1953

[Side 1] Robert recalls schooldays in nearby Duddo, tells anecdote about old groom giving children lift to school, new groom refused so one day Robert and friends pelted his trap with stones, brief de...

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Sound Recordings, Somerset

Ihalainen, Ossi

1971

[Collector announcement]; Fred Mullins [tape box label reads Frank Mullins], recorded at Exford; talks about working in service on a farm at the age of eight; leaving school aged twelve and working on...

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Sound Recordings, Devon

Stigell, Ossi

1976

Mr. Cordwent of Whitnage [continued from tape LAVC/SRE/A688r] talks about deer hunting/culling on Exmoor; the damage done by deer; the cost of maintaining hunting packs (horses and dogs); involvement ...

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