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Sound Recordings, [Liverpool]
Bond, Francis Keith
[1973/1974]
Unidentified male (a policeman during and after World War Two) talks about Civil Defence, the Blitz on Liverpool and area, wartime spirit, the emergency services, rationing and food, anecdotal inciden...
Dialect recording in Whalton, Northumberland
Orton, Harold (1898-1975)
25 Aug 1939
[Side 1] Joe and Billy talk briefly about cars; Joe outlines recent local cricket matches and personal contributions, compares cricket with football, mentions Billy's weekly trips to watch Newcastle U...
Sound Recordings, North Yorkshire
[Mid-1960s]
Male, recorded in Filey in 1962 [date when this copy tape made not known]; talks about an incident at sea, and trying to launch a boat; going to sea at thirteen; wages; boat lamps, hand pump on board;...
Sound Recordings, South Ayrshire
Czerkawska, Catherine Lucy
1974
Tom Sloan, recorded at home in Maidens, talks about his fishing career; mother baiting baikies - small lines - with mussels; big line fishing; drift net fishing; ring net fishing for herring off the I...
Sound Recordings, South Ayrshire and South Lanarkshire
Czerkawska, Catherine Lucy
1974
James Cook, recorded at home in Maybole on 2 April 1974. Conversation re. fishing and village life; fishermen from Maidens selling fish; occupational folklore re. red-haired women; village community; ...
Farming Traditions in South Shropshire
Gwilliam, K Sheila
1967
A thesis based on the experiences of the collector's family, farming an area near Clun in Shropshire.
Sound Recordings, North Yorkshire
[Mid-1960s]
Male, recorded in Filey in 1962 [date when this copy tape made not known]; talks about being employed as a veterinary's groom; talks about working hours, and relates a number of anecdotes; talks about...
Sound Recordings, West Yorkshire and Essex
Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009); Berntsen, Howard N
[1950s-1960s]
Irvine Brooksbank, recorded in Thornton in May 1957; talks about Thornton village; anecdotes re. local people; quarryworkers (including his father); family's connection with the village; family nickna...
Sound Recordings, [Dorset]
Panheinen, Ossi
[1970]
Mr. Paull [location not given] relates his experiences of fighting in World War One; the Somme in 1917 and being wounded; convalescence in Wyke Regis; Paschendale Ridge; the Somme; working life after ...
Sound Recording, East Riding of Yorkshire
Chamberlain, John S
July/August 1961
Herbert Sykes of Wetwang relates items of weatherlore - rainbows, moon (and associated rhymes), wind direction, horses' behaviour/crows' behaviour (nesting) as signs of weather; Mrs. Sykes relates say...