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North/North Midland Dialect Border Map
Röhrer, Fritz
[1950s]
Ms. and printed map of Yorkshire and Lancashire showing the dialectal border between Northern England and the Northern Midlands. The map was compiled by Fritz Röhrer, and is dated January 1952.
North Bar, Beverley
[1960s]
Board-mounted photograph of the North Bar in Beverley (East Riding of Yorkshire). The bar is a medieval brick construction built in the 15th-century, and is the sole survivor of the four or five gatew...
Sound Recording, North Yorkshire
Oldroyd, Charles H
6 Sep 1976 - 9 Sep 1976
Fred Longthorne, of Greenhow Hill, talks about lead mining in Nidderdale, and Greenhow Hill in particular: tools, local mines, clothing, shoes, discovering Stump Cross Caverns; mining career in the 19...
Sound Recordings, North Yorkshire
Wharton, Colin S
1960-1961
Edited compilation of field recordings of songs sung by a number of informants at locations in North Yorkshire. The collector announces the name of the song and singer, where known, before each song. ...
Sound Recordings, North Yorkshire
Wharton, Colin S
1960-1961
Edited compilation of field recordings of songs sung by a number of informants at locations in North Yorkshire. The collector announces the name of the song and singer, where known, before each song. ...
Sound Recordings, North Yorkshire
Wharton, Colin S
1960-1961
Edited compilation of field recordings of songs sung by a number of informants at locations in North Yorkshire. The collector announces the name of the song and singer, where known, before each song. ...
The Phonology of the Dialect of North Wootton
Townsend, Hilary J
1979
A study of the dialect spoken in the Norfolk village of North Wootton, based on data collected through fieldwork interviews with one female informant, resident in the village for eighty years.
The Phonology of the Dialect of North Shields
Ayers, Vivienne
1983
A study of the dialect spoken in the town of North Shields, Tyne and Wear, based on data collected through fieldwork interviews with one informant.
Sound Recordings, North Yorkshire
Cook, Catherine
1970-1971
Male informant talks about his father visiting a witch doctor at Ripon, and a cure involving a jar of nails taken from shoes; also refers to a ritual at a local church at midnight, and black cats. [Tr...
Sound Recording, North Yorkshire
Cook, Catherine
[1970/1971]
Fred Longthorne, recorded at home, talking about practical jokes; the supernatural experiences of others in ?Gill How mine; a local legend concerning John Kay's grave; lead mining - death of miner, ac...
Sound Recordings, North Yorkshire
Cook, Catherine
[1970-1971]
Male informants in conversation in a pub [?in Ramsgill, November 1970], talking about Dead Mans Hill; Yorke's Folly; the ghost of a monk at Bewerley Hall; the Yorke family. Male informants recorded ...
Sound Recording, North Yorkshire
Cook, Catherine
November 1970
John Swales [JS], recorded in Merryfield Glen, sings I've got a father in the better land [first line]; Poor ?Jeffrey's gone to rest[first line], and other song fragments, including 'See Amid the Wint...