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Clog Factory: Finishing Room
August 1971
Clogger nailing uppers and wooden soles together, at F. Walkley's clog factory, Huddersfield. A narrow leather strip is placed over the upper and sole before they are nailed together. Stacks of comple...
Conistone Survey Contact Prints: E
July 1971
Contact prints of photographs taken during a Survey of Vernacular Architecture around Conistone ( Wharfedale), undertaken by students on the Museums Association Diploma Curatorial Course in Folk Life ...
Sound Recordings, Oxfordshire
Pickering, Michael J
September/October 1973
Wilf Walton [daughter also present], recorded in Adderbury; recites texts of a number of unidentified poems/monologues and songs; daughter talks about her father acting in local productions of 'The Mi...
Sound Recording, West Yorkshire
Morris, Patricia M
[September 1981]
Olive Metcalf, recorded at home in the Kirkstall area of Leeds; gives biographical details (born in the Bramley area of Leeds); recollections of baptism as a child; family; other Bramley families; Bra...
Sound Recordings, Derbyshire, Cheshire and Nottingamshire
Siporin, Rae Lee
1965
Charles Swindles, recorded in Bamford; introduces himself and his wife and daughters; talks about Bamford; the River Derwent and the Howden Reservoir, Derwent Reservoir and Ladybower Reservoir; local ...
Sound Recordings, Suffolk
Pasanen, Leena
August 1971
[Collector announcement]; Mr. Goddard, recorded at home in Helmingham on the 13 August 1971; talks about his experience of World War One in France (1914-1916); joining an Indian division attached to a...
Sound Recordings, Devon
Panheinen, Ossi
[1970]
Mr. Woollacott [location not known] describes the process of making cider - equipment, barrelling and fermenting; strength of cider; the barrels used; difference between beer and ale; provision of cid...
Sound Recording, Greater Manchester
Upton, Clive S
[Mid-1970s]
[Collector announcement]; Wilf Morgan, butcher, recorded in Mossley [interview starts mid conversation]; talks about his experiences as a butcher; boning a piece of beef and cuts of beef; meat prices ...
Sound Recordings, Glamorgan
Crook, Rosemary
9 January 1980
Recorded in an Old People's Home in Treorchy ; Gladys Flinn (born Ystrad, Glamorgan) talks about family background, occupation of father; describes domestic routine - clothes washing, sleeping arrange...
Sound Recordings, Yorkshire, Isle of Man and Cheshire
Dyson, B Ronald; Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009); Barry, Michael V (1935-); Siporin, Rae Lee
[1965-1980]
Compilation of Survey of English Dialects fieldwork recordings (copies) for Yorkshire locations 6Y30-31, 33-34; Isle of Man 6aMan1-2; and Cheshire 7Ch1-2. The original recordings were made between 195...
Sound Recordings, Derbyshire
Massarella, Mr
[1960s]
Unidentified female informant, recorded in Charlesworth [by male collector, from Canterbury]; talks about cotton mills and rope works in the area; changes in the village, including new housing and tra...
Sound Recordings, Derbyshire and Cheshire
Siporin, Rae Lee
May 1965
[Collector announcement]; Mr. E. Nealey, recorded in Burbage; provides biographical information; makes reference to cockfighting; an Endowed School; selling newspapers at the age of nine; aunt and unc...