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North/North Midland Dialect Border Map
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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.

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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...

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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...

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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. ...

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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. ...

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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. ...

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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.

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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.

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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...

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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...

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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 ...

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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...

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