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Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)3
Brunk, Wille2
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Harness Bells
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Harness Bells

Kissling, Werner (1895-1988)

July 1965

Set of three bells for the harness of a bell mare, Thornton Rust ( Wensleydale). Mounted on Photo File card. Includes ms. note on the wearing of bells by bell mares and an ms. note in the hand of Wern...

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Sound Recording, Oxfordshire

Pickering, Michael J

1973

BBC Radio Oxford outside broadcast programme, 'Hello Adderbury', recorded in Adderbury. The programme covers local government, including an interview with the clerk to the Parish Council who explains ...

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Animal Sports: Correspondence

1963-1964

This file contains a typed letter [?from Stewart Sanderson] to Mrs. E. Fieldhouse acknowledging her sending audiotapes on cock-fighting to the Institute of Dialect and Folk Life Studies (IDFLS) (5 Jun...

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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...

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Lore and Legend of the Western Fen Borderland

Toffler, Lenora Clare

1967

A study of the folklore of eleven informants living in villages to the north of Peterborough ( Crowland, Helpston, Whittlesey, Glinton and Maxey). The study comprises five chapters, with the first pre...

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Sound Recording, Leicester

Edge, Christine

1965

Various informants talk of Cat Anna ( Leicester woman regarded as a witch), a secret tunnel used by Lady Jane Grey, Leicester Castle, witch burnings, divination (future husband, sex of unborn baby); C...

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Winter and Spring Festivals

1965-1980

This file contains items relating to New Year, Valentine's Day and Shrove Tuesday customs. This includes a typed copy of a letter from Clare Elkin to Stewart Sanderson on the custom of painting New Ye...

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Sound Recordings, Staffordshire

Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009); Siporin, Rae Lee

[1965-1980]

Compilation of Survey of English Dialects fieldwork recordings (copies) for Staffordshire locations 12St5-10. The original recordings were made in 1955 and 1965. The date when this copy tape was made ...

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Sound Recordings, North Yorkshire

Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009); Orton, Harold (1898-1975)

[1960-1980]

Compilation of Survey of English Dialects fieldwork recordings (copies) for North Yorkshire locations 6Y3-8. The majority of the original recordings were made by Stanley Ellis, in 1952 and 1955. Harol...

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Sound Recordings, Dorset

Panheinen, Ossi

[1970]

Mr. Spiller of Broadwindsor talks about farming; milking cows; hedging and the decline in the numbers of hedgers; farm horses and ploughing; weeding corn; haymaking; women labourers; informant's famil...

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Sound Recordings, Somerset

Palmer, Kingsley

1969

Female informant relates stories regarding local old women; the arrival of the Methodists; and a young man riding a horse. Miss Pavey of Walford, recorded 2 April 1969, talks about tunnels to caves ...

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Sound Recordings, Lincolnshire

Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009); Tilling, Philip M (1938-); Barry, Michael V (1935-)

[1967-1980]

Compilation of Survey of English Dialects fieldwork recordings (copies) for Lincolnshire locations 10L4-15. The original recordings were made in 1952, 1953, 1960 and 1967. The date when this copy tape...

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