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Mining Communities
1964-1969
This file contains items collected by two Institute of Dialect and Folk Life Studies (IDFLS) students, for use in thesis research on mining communities. The first set of items relates to Carole Woodal...
Custom and Tradition in the Black Country
Smith, Carolyn Margaret
1972
A study comprising introductory sections on the industrial history of the Black Country, its steel, coal mining, nail making and chain making industries and associated communities. Further sections de...
The Decline of the Pit Village: A Study of Burradon, Northumberland
Thompson, Elizabeth Jane
1975
A study of one pit village, Burradon, in Northumberland, its colliery and community. Sections describe working life underground, attitudes to pit life, the role of the pitman's wife, community spirit ...
Occasional Poetry
[1970-1973]
This file contains ms. notes on verses written following the Lofthouse Colliery disaster and their authors; a printed copy of Ephraim Mugglestone's poem, 'The Tragedy of the Lofthouse Colliery Disaste...
Mining in the Worsley Area of Lancashire
Taylor, Ruth
1974
A dissertation on customs, traditions and beliefs connected with the coal mining industry in the Worsley area of Lancashire, based on printed sources and interviews with four miners. Its sections pres...
Sound Recording, North Lincolnshire
Haldenby, Cynthia
October 1958
George Smith, recorded in South Ferriby; talks about his working life (hours, accidents, conditions), including thirty years in a brickyard, at Barton-upon-Humber cement works and in Hull; accidents a...
Tradition and Belief in Industrial Communities: A Comparative Study of Middlesbrough and Some Durham Mining Villages
Woodall, Carole W
1965
An examination and comparison of the folklore of people living in Middlesbrough and Durham, based on fieldwork interviews in the homes and workplace of steelworkers (including a visit in 1964 to the w...
Sound Recordings, Lancashire
Bauldie, J S
1969
Interviews with ex-coalminers from Abram, Hindley, Ashton-in-Makerfield and Shevington. Topics covered include work and leisure activities: whippets; practical jokes; beliefs; games (including Piggy, ...
The Coal Mining Community of Abram, Lancashire
Bauldie, J S
1970
A dissertation which focusses on the life of the miner away from his place of employment, and describes miners' recreational activities in the Lancashire village of Abram during the years 1900 to 1925...
Sound Recording, Glamorgan
Crook, Rosemary
3 January 1980
Mary Morgan (of Ferndale) talks about her family (siblings; parents - occupations); domestic life - washing, bathing, cooking, sleeping arrangements; the General Strike; mining; mother-in-law working ...
Sound Recording, West Yorkshire
[1970s]
Mr. J. Froggatts, recorded in Chapelthorpe; talks about Pontefract Horse Fair; anecdotes relating to his family; biographical details; half time at school aged twelve, working part-time in the pit; le...
Sound Recording, Glamorgan
Crook, Rosemary
8 January 1980
Recording made in Llwynypia ; Edith Jones and Eunice King (both born and lived in Ystrad, Glamorgan); family biographies; describe domestic routine, washing/making clothes (childhood recollections of ...