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fishing18
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english language - dialects8
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Dunn, Ginette8
Hart, Bob (1892-1978)5
Czerkawska, Catherine Lucy4
Parker, Charles (1919-1980)3
Balls, Ronnie2
Bbc2
Larner, Sam2
Mccrindle, James2
Adams, Ned1
Cook, James1

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Archive File

Folk Song: General

1959-1981

This file contains typed song texts for 'Ah'm an O'wd Age Penshoner' (provenance unknown); a photocopy of the text and tune for 'Charley of Armor', collected from Captain Shields by Geoff Wood, from a...

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Sound Recording, Suffolk

Dunn, Ginette

25 June 1974

Bob Hart, recorded in Snape [?in the collector's home], talks about practising songs; the preservation of songs and the collector's tape recordings; old songs - music hall, folk; fishing - herring, gr...

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Sound Recording, Suffolk

Dunn, Ginette

5 October 1974

Bob Hart, recorded at home in Snape, talks about village concerts, the singer Jack Davy, speeches re. the village and songs sung, village organisations, other singers, (step) dancing, village dances, ...

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Sound Recordings, Suffolk

Dunn, Ginette

1975

Bob Hart, recorded at home in Snape on the 5 July 1975 , sings 'Cod Banging', and talks about verses added, singing style and Percy Webb; sings and comments on 'Paradise Street'; learning to play the ...

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Sound Recording, Suffolk

Dunn, Ginette

21 June 1975

James Smith, recorded at home in Snape; talks about the song 'The Cobbler' and the use of props; sings the song, learned/sung in the Crown pub, Snape, around fifty years ago; singing in the Golden Key...

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The complete angler, or contemplative man's recreation : being a discourse on rivers, fish-ponds, fish, and fishing: in two parts

Walton, Izaak (1593-1683); Cotton, Charles (1630-1687); Hawkins, Sir John (1719-1789)

1792

Plates engraved in line by W. W. Ryland, after S. Wale. "This is the 1791 edition, with a new title-page, the title of the second part [The complete angler... Being instructions how to angle for a t...

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Sound Recordings, Suffolk

Dunn, Ginette

April 1974

Bob Hart, recorded at home in Snape on 16 April 1974[conclusion of session which starts on tape LAVC/SRE/A329r]; sings 'The Ship that Never Returned'; working at sea (cooking, rope work) on drifters a...

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Sound Recordings, Suffolk

Dunn, Ginette

July 1974

Bob Hart, recorded at home in Snape on 17 July 1974; sings 'City of Laughter'. [Tr. 1]. Conclusion of session which starts on tapes LAVC/SRE/A340r and LAVC/SRE/A341r. Bob Hart, recorded at home on 2...

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Sound Recordings, Suffolk

Dunn, Ginette

1974

Ruby Ling, recorded at home in Snape on the 11 September 1974; talks about her father working as a tenant farmer on the Wentworth Estate at Aldeburgh; Sunday School treat (tea at the mansion on the es...

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Radio Ballads Scripts

MacColl, Ewan (1915-1989); Parker, Charles (1919-1980)

1958-1960

This file contains four typed transcripts of production scripts for programmes in the BBC's Radio Ballads series, by Ewan MacColl and Charles Parker. These are a copy of the production script for 'The...

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Sound Recordings, South Ayrshire and South Lanarkshire

Czerkawska, Catherine Lucy

1974

James Cook, recorded at home in Maybole on 2 April 1974. Conversation re. fishing and village life; fishermen from Maidens selling fish; occupational folklore re. red-haired women; village community; ...

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The Folklore of the Northumbrian Fishing Communities

Robson, Joanne

1967

A study of crab, lobster and salmon fishermen, and the communities in which they live, covering the length of the Northumberlandcoast. In collecting folklore of the area and the industry, the collecto...

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