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Dunn, Ginette4
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Sound Recording, Suffolk

Dunn, Ginette

16 November 1974

Percy Ling, recorded at home in Snape; talks about singing at the Golden Key pub in Snape, and meeting his future wife there; wife's family; segregation of men and women in the pub; attitude to women ...

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Sound Recording, Suffolk

Dunn, Ginette

9 September 1974

Bob Hart, recorded at home in Snape, sings 'Eat More Fruit'; talks about Jack Harland and learning 'Bold General Wolfe' from him; sings fragment of 'Up She Went Like a Rocket', also sung by Harland; s...

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Sound Recording, Suffolk

Dunn, Ginette

1974

Priscilla Savage, recorded at home in Blaxhall on the 31 October 1974; talks about remembering songs and giving song texts to other people; sings 'There Were Two Jolly Sportsmen' [incomplete - recites...

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The Pasche Egg

Calvert, Valerie E

1962

A study of the Easter egg and customs associated with it, based on questionnaire responses and fieldwork interviews with informants living in (or one time resident in) Burscough, Workington, Preston, ...

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Sound Recording, Glamorgan

Crook, Rosemary

8 January 1980

Recording made in Llwynypia ; Edith Jones and Eunice King (both born and lived in Ystrad, Glamorgan); family biographies; describe domestic routine, washing/making clothes (childhood recollections of ...

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Sound Recording, Suffolk

Dunn, Ginette

11 September 1974

Priscilla Savage, recorded at home in Blaxhall; talks about the village Youth Hostel; her parents and siblings; food, diet and bread baking; own family and children; working in service; childhood in L...

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Sound Recordings, [Derbyshire]

Wright, Fiona J

December 1978

[Collector announcement: informant's name, year and place of birth]; Linda Aldcroft talks about her childhood Christmases in Altrincham (Cheshire) - preparations, including Stir Up Sunday (cake/puddin...

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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...

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Sound Recordings, Wiltshire and Hampshire

Kylstra, Henk E

1961

Mr. G. Shaw, recorded at home in Whiteparish; talks about domestic lighting; thatching (hay ricks, cottages); roods (measurement of length); walls for dwellings and materials used; mowing with a scyth...

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