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Total number of records: 16

Top 10: Subject

SubjectCount
communities16
culture16
community life12
folk music12
associations, institutions, etc9
manners and customs7
play7
english language - dialects5
religion5
entertainment events4

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Ashton, John3
Barstow, John3
Bergal, Nancy Ann3
Wright, John T3
Byrne, Packie Manus2
Nalder, Peter Francis2
Sullivan, Keith Frederick2
Butcher, Edward1
Cheichel, Edna1
Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)1

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Sound Recording, West Yorkshire

Bergal, Nancy Ann

15 February 1980

John Barstow sings 'Galway Shawl'and 'Dan O'Hara'. Recorded at the Grove Folk Club in Leeds. Collector also interviews a member of the audience at the bar of the same club. They discuss folk music/sin...

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Sound Recordings, Merseyside and [unidentified]

Nalder, Peter Francis

[1960s]

Packie Byrne, singing in a Liverpool folk club. Includes also humorous anecdotes. [Tr. 2]. Conclusion of session which starts on tape LAVC/SRE/A217r. Packie Byrne sings 'Wild Mountain Thyme' in an u...

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Sound Recordings, West Yorkshire

Bergal, Nancy Ann

February 1980

John Barstow singing at Leeds University Folk Club. Recorded 12 February 1980. [Recording level low.] [Tr. 3] John Barstow, [?recorded at home in Leeds], talks about singing in folk clubs in Leeds, ...

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Sound Recordings, Cornwall

Wright, John T

1958

[Collector announcement]; Frank Gist, recorded at home in Kilkhampton on the 25 October 1958; talks about farm work on leaving school; the family carriers business; goods transported and for whom; tra...

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Sound Recording, West Yorkshire

Ashton, John

[1974/1975]

Ceilidh/music session recorded [?in the Irish Centre/Regents pub] in Leeds- accordion, bodhran, whistle, flute and piano. Includes brief discussion with an unidentified male about Irish music (singing...

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Sound Recordings, Wiltshire

Wright, John T

August 1957

Ernest Kent, recorded in Netheravon; talks about driving hay waggons in the summer; Michaelmas ploughing with oxen; his father; hoeing and rates of pay; threshing with a flail; rates of pay; gleaned c...

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Sound Recording, West Yorkshire

Ashton, John

[1974/1975]

Unidentified male singers singing in a Leeds pub [?the Regent], some unaccompanied, some accompanied by accordion or bodhran; also mouth music and instrumental on accordion, bodhran and whistle. Mal...

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Sound Recording, West Yorkshire

Bergal, Nancy Ann

06 Dec 1979 - 13 Dec 1979

John Barstow, recorded in Leeds, talks about Irish folk songs, Irish immigrants working on building sites [?in Leeds], folk singing in pubs in period after World War Two; folk clubs in Leeds in 1979; ...

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Sound Recording, West Yorkshire

Nalder, Peter Francis

[1960s]

Packie Byrne, singing in an unidentified Huddersfield folk club. [Tr. 2]. Conclusion of session which starts on tape LAVC/SRE/A219r. Packie Byrne singing 'The Irish Girl in America', and 'The Plough...

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Sound Recording, North Yorkshire

Sullivan, Keith Frederick

6 January 1977

[Collector announcement]; Raymond Hayes, recorded at home in Hutton-le-Hole; talks about playing in a local dance band, and the tunes played, in Farndale and Rosedale Abbey - involvement of the whole ...

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Sound Recording, West Yorkshire

Ashton, John

[1974/1975]

Harry Slack, recorded in his home in Leeds. Brief reference to singing style (adornment); sings and then discusses 'Uncle Dan McCann', learned from parents; sings 'Said Meself to Herself' and explains...

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Sound Recording, West Yorkshire

Cheichel, Edna

1970

Various informants recorded at Donisthorpe Hall Old People's Home in Leeds. Leizer Gold sings unidentified song; male sings unidentified song; male ( Rabbi Safer) relates an incident, and other inform...

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