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A Collection of Children's Games, Rhymes and Songs
Waller, Vivien M
1962
A collection of children's games, rhymes and songs, collected in the Manchester area from children between the ages of nine and fifteen, playing in the street or whilst at school. Schools visited were...
The Black Country Dialect: A Collection of Words, Phrases, and Stories
Starkey, H J
1953
This file comprises an ms. notebook containing a collection of words, phrases and dialect texts of the Black Country (i.e. South Staffordshire, North Worcestershire and North West Warwickshire), compi...
Folklore of Worsley: A Miscellaneous Collection of Tradition and Belief From the Area of Worsley, Salford Metropolitan District
Skinner, Margaret
1975
A study of the folklore of Worsley people, based on oral and printed sources. Interviews were conducted with older residents, and children at a Primary School in Walkden. The study contains a sectio...
Children's Games and Rhymes
Kenworthy, Valerie D
1965
A collection of children's games and rhymes collected from boys and girls of the second form of Ossett Grammar School in West Yorkshire. The contributors were then resident in Ossett, Wakefield and Ho...
Nottinghamshire Rhymes
Millington, Peter T
1972
This file contains photocopies of typed Nottinghamshire rhymes collected by Peter Millington. The rhymes include children's songs and rhymes, skipping rhymes and singing games. The papers include song...
Sound Recording, West Yorkshire
Ingham, Julianne A; Andrew, Yolande
December 1979
Examples of games, rhymes and songs collected from children at Quarry Mount Primary School in Leeds.
Children's Games: Student Surveys
1979-1980
This file contains surveys of children's games collected by students at the Institute of Dialect and Folk Life Studies (IDFLS) from schoolchildren in Leeds. These include Elspeth Mitchell's ms. transc...
Table games of Georgian and Victorian days
Whitehouse, F R B (1887-1977); Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019)
1971