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Needle Supports (Handknitting)
Langhorne, Richard
18 June 1964
Eight children's toy knitting needle supports, in the Whitehead Collection at the Castle Museum, York. Includes a cedar sheath from Skipton (North Yorkshire), reinforced with a hen quill; a sycamore s...
The Living Dialect of Barton in South Nottinghamshire
Greensmith, Pauline R
1958
A study of the dialect spoken in Barton in Fabis, Nottinghamshire, based on fieldwork interviews undertaken in 1957 with three male informants. An introduction to the village and the informants is f...
Sound Recordings, Hertfordshire and Cambridgeshire
Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)
[1950s]
Male informant, recorded in Therfield; talks about ploughing with horses; the self-binder; horse-driven threshing machine; storing corn, and selling at [?Royston] Corn Exchange; taking wheat to mill f...
Sound Recordings, Cambridgeshire
Tammivaara, Irmeli
June-July 1974
[Collector announcement]; George Warby and Olive Warby [continued from tape LAVC/SRE/A667r], recorded in Elm on the 27 June 1974; talk about the Charity Dole for agricultural workers from Elm and Frid...
Sound Recordings, Cambridgeshire
Tammivaara, Irmeli
July 1975
[Collector announcement]; Wally Hull, recorded at Little Downham on the 15 July 1975 [continued from tape LAVC/SRE/A672r]; talks about winter weather; skating and champion skaters; his work as a postm...