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Total number of records: 25

Top 10: Subject

SubjectCount
food25
food industry and trade25
meat25
occupations25
culture22
english language - dialects22
folklore12
clothing and dress11
persons11
textile industry11

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Upton, Clive S25
Hartshorne, Brian3
Brown, Charles2
Clifton, Gerald2
Lindley, Mrs2
Lindley, Raymond2
Morgan, Wilf2
Simmons, Ivy2
Simmons, Mr2
Mason, Frederick1

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Sound Recording, Herefordshire

Upton, Clive S

[Mid-1970s]

Duplicate of tape LAVC/SRE/A713r.

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Sound Recording, [Location not given]

Upton, Clive S

[Mid-1970s]

Male informant [continued from tape LAVC/SRE/A542r] relates terminology associated with meat curing, the contamination of meat and the types of pest, vehicles used by butchers/meat traders, the names ...

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Sound Recording, [Location not given]

Upton, Clive S

[Mid-1970s]

Collector's father talks about the names given to people involved in the butchering and meat trade; and explains the butchers' use of back slang (a form of communication between butchers and their sta...

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Sound Recording, Greater Manchester

Upton, Clive S

[Mid-1970s]

Wilf Morgan, butcher, recorded in Mossley[continued from tape LAVC/SRE/A707r]; talks about a delivery pony and trotting races (the Pelican Mile); delivery vehicles - traps for orders/deliveries, drop-...

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Sound Recording, [Location not given]

Upton, Clive S

[Mid-1970s]

Collector's father gives answers to the collector's questionnaire concerning language and terminology associated with the butchering trade. Questions relate to beef, lamb, pork and poultry, and the an...

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Sound Recording, Staffordshire

Upton, Clive S

[Mid-1970s]

Ivy Simmons/? Ivy Simmonds, recorded with her husband [?at home in Tamworth]. Conclusion of interview which starts on tape LAVC/SRE/A545r, concerning the language of the meat trade. Informant gives th...

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Sound Recording, [Location not given]

Upton, Clive S

[Mid-1970s]

Male informant gives answers to the collector's questionnaire concerning language and terminology associated with the butchering trade. Questions relate to beef, lamb, pork and poultry, and the answer...

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Sound Recording, West Midlands

Upton, Clive S

[Mid-1970s]

Brian Hartshorne, a butcher recorded in Wolverhampton [continued from tape LAVC/SRE/A716r]; talks about slaughtering animals; pests and damaged meat; offal, blood and meat products; pickling; butcheri...

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Butchering Questionnaire

Upton, Clive S

1974

This file contains a fieldwork questionnaire designed to elicit information about the working practices and terminology used by people connected with the meat trade. The responses collected provided d...

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Sound Recording, [Location not given]

Upton, Clive S

[Mid-1970s]

Male informant talks about working in the meat trade since the age of thirty, having previously worked with his father selling fish and poultry/fruit and vegetables [in the ? West Midlands]; wartime a...

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Sound Recording, Staffordshire

Upton, Clive S

[Mid-1970s]

Charles Brown [continued from tape LAVC/SRE/A709r], recorded in Stoke-on-Trent; talks about his work as a butcher; meat processing equipment/implements; meat display; butcher's shop fixtures and fitti...

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Sound Recording, Warwickshire

Upton, Clive S

[Mid-1970s]

Mr. D. T. Wharton, recorded in Rugby; gives answers to the collector's questionnaire concerning language and terminology associated with the butchering trade. The answers relate to the beef and pork s...

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