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Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)3
Badie, Alain1
Baynes, Martin1
Deroche, V1
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Houck, Charles L1
Hudleston, Nigel A1
Karale, L1
Kellet, G R1
Parry, David (1937-)1

Archive File

The Kellet Manuscript

Kellet, G R

[1970s]

The first file contains a photocopy of a manuscript by G. R. Kellet, being a memoir of growing up in Hunslet, Leeds, in the 1920s and 1930s. Although biographical, the manuscript includes descriptions...

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Sound Recording, West Yorkshire

Houck, Charles L

[Mid 1960s-1970s]

Interview with male informant in his home in Leeds, recorded as part of the collector's sociolinguistic inquiry in the city. The recording was made using a radio transmitter in the informant's house, ...

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Photographs of Yorkshire Vernacular Architecture

[1960-1979]

These photographs show a variety of Yorkshiredomestic houses and agricultural barns, and include both general exterior views, and interior and exterior views of particular architectural features. All ...

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Photographs of Yorkshire Vernacular Architecture

[1960s-1970s]

These photographs show a variety of Yorkshirehouses, out buildings, industrial buildings and agricultural barns, and include both general exterior views, and interior and exterior views of particular ...

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Sound Recordings, Essex and West Yorkshire

Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)

[1960s]

Martin Baynes, recorded in Henham (Essex); talks about his working life; jobs on leaving school, scaring birds, riding the chain horse at harvest time; working with horses from the age of 14/15; worki...

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Sound Recordings, Powys

Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009); Parry, David (1937-)

[1960s]

[Collector announcement (Ellis)]; Mr. ?Richards, recorded outside in Llanafan-fawr [undated]; talks about the electricity supply to the area; fire grates in local houses; peat burning; local dwellings...

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Fouilles de Delphes

Déroche, V; Pétridis, Platon; Badie, Alain; Destrooper-Georgiades, Anne; Karalē, L

Unnumbered folded pages called Dépliants II-VI.

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Glossaries, Etc.

Hudleston, Nigel A

[1950s]

These files contain four undated typed papers, annotated in ms., containing dialect glossaries (mostly Yorkshire based) and data on Yorkshire folklife, and diagrams illustrating wagons and cottages. ...

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