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Sound Recordings, Devon
Stigell, Ossi
1976
Mr. Cordwent of Whitnage [continued from tape LAVC/SRE/A688r] talks about deer hunting/culling on Exmoor; the damage done by deer; the cost of maintaining hunting packs (horses and dogs); involvement ...
Sound Recordings, Warwickshire
Siporin, Rae Lee
June 1965
[Collector announcement]; Bella Green, recorded in Nether Whitacre; talks about her childhood; working in service at a farm in Coleshill; farm work - hoeing, digging, carting, harvesting; horse raking...
Sound Recording, South Yorkshire
Russell, Ian
7 August 1972
George Hancock recorded in conversation at home, Sheephill Farm, in the Ringinglow area of Sheffield. Mrs. George Hancock also contributes. Talk of (dairy) farming; Penistone and Bakewell markets; alt...
Sound Recording, Somerset
Ihalainen, Ossi
July 1972
Jack Spencer, recorded at home in Westhay on 15 July 1972; describes haymaking, including raking, work breaks, harnessing horses, loading waggons, drink, rick making, dinner time, food, tea, evening w...
Sound Recordings, Devon
Stigell, Ossi
1976
[Collector announcement]; Mr. Oldridge of Sampford Peverell talks about his work as a greenkeeper; farming and the changes brought about through mechanisation; the village's changing population; his f...
Sound Recordings, Devon
Stigell, Ossi
1976
Mr. Dallyn of Halberton [continued from tape LAVC/SRE/689r] talks about his parents and grandparents; refers to a Club Walk and fair in ?; markets in Tiverton and Tiverton Junction. [Tr. 7] [Collect...
Sound Recordings, Suffolk
Pasanen, Leena
July-August 1971
[Collector announcement]; Herbert Miles, a retired farmworker, recorded in his home in Helmingham on the 28 July 1971 ; talks about farm work (as a boy); wages; farm horses; thoughts on past and prese...
Sound Recordings, Cambridgeshire
Tammivaara, Irmeli
July 1975
[Collector announcement]; Wally Hull, recorded at Little Downham on the 15 July 1975 [continued from tape LAVC/SRE/A672r]; talks about winter weather; skating and champion skaters; his work as a postm...
Sound Recordings, Yorkshire
Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009); Wright, Peter
[1966-1980]
Compilation of Survey of English Dialects fieldwork recordings (copies) for Yorkshire locations 6Y21-24, 26-29. The majority of the original recordings were made by Stanley Ellis, in 1955, 1963, 1964 ...
Sound Recordings, Kent
Barry, Michael V (1935-)
1958
[Collector announcement]; Frank Osbourne, recorded in Goudhurst in November 1958; talks about his working hours on the farm/land with horses; his agricultural labourer's wage of fourteen shillings a w...
Sound Recordings, Bedfordshire
Shaw, David H
1955
Will Clarke, recorded in Stanbridge; talks about his daughter's move from Stanbridge to Hertfordshire [his daughters, Mrs. W. Urquhartand Mary Cooper, and sons-in-law William Cooper and Mr. W. Urquhar...
Sound Recordings, Suffolk
Pasanen, Leena
July-August 1971
[Collector announcement]; George Creasy, recorded at home in Framsdenon the 30 July 1971; recites the monologues 'Bill and Bob' and 'Harvest Carting in Suffolk'; talks about his working life on local ...