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Total number of records: 62

Count of Collection group

Collection groupCount
Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture60
Maurice de Sausmarez Archive2

Top 10: Subject

SubjectCount
holidays62
manners and customs60
community life59
education55
culture51
occupations44
food39
social life and customs37
agriculture32
nature31

Count of Place

PlaceCount
Bedford, United Kingdom1
Croagnes, France1
Fowey, United Kingdom1
Makerere, Africa1
Perpignon, France1

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Pasanen, Leena6
Tammivaara, Irmeli6
Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)5
Crook, Rosemary4
Siporin, Rae Lee4
Carter, Sid2
Cooke, Jane A2
Dunn, Ginette2
Evans, George Ewart (1909-1988)2
Ludlam, Thomas2

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Sound Recordings, Yorkshire

Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)

[1960s]

Mr. Fisher of Thornhill, recorded in 1962; talks about working in a coal mine - hours of work, wages, scale picking (as a youngster); pushing tubs underground; describes the layout underground and the...

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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, North Yorkshire

Sullivan, Keith Frederick

11 September 1976

[Collector announcement]; Mrs. Weatherill and daughter Linda, recorded at home in Ainthorpe. Mrs. W. sings 'My Grandfather's Clock', 'Farmer's Boy' and one verse of 'Springtime in the Rockies'; talks ...

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Sound Recordings, Derbyshire and Staffordshire

Siporin, Rae Lee

1965

[Collector announcement]; Jim Driver, recorded in Charlesworth in May 1965; talks about his working life, including ropemaking; starting work at the age of 22/23; cotton rope and its use; his family; ...

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Sound Recordings, Devon

Panheinen, Ossi

[1970]

Mrs. Reed [location not given] talks about the Mothers' Union; her husband's involvement with the local Church Council [Mr. Reed, recorded on tape LAVC/SRE/A699r]; the village fete; skittles; activiti...

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The Courtney Manuscript and Related Papers

1973-1974

This file contains papers relating to the republication of Margaret Courtney's 'Cornish Feasts and Folklore' (originally published Penzance: Beare, 1890). Tony Green, lecturer at the Institute of Dial...

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Sound Recordings, Cambridgeshire

Tammivaara, Irmeli

July 1974

[Collector announcement]; Bertram Bridgement, recorded in Manea on the 3 July 1974; talks about farming and farm jobs pre-mechanisation; dyke/drain digging tools; job as a horseman; showing horses (Sh...

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Sound Recording, West Yorkshire

Morris, Patricia M

October 1981

Dorothy Ibbotson, recorded at home in the Kirkstall area of Leeds; sings 'The Warrior's Little Boy' (learned from her grandmother), and talks about her attempts to trace the song's origins; gives biog...

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Sound Recording, West Yorkshire

Hermansson, Nana

November 1969

Harry Hudson, recorded at home in Leeds on the 20th and 27th of November; talks about Leeds City Market; his first stall; work at a wholesale fruit firm; the Armyand World War One; buying his own busi...

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Sound Recording, West Yorkshire

Green, Anthony E (1943-)

23 November 1971

Mary Judge, recorded in Leeds; talks about her upbringing in the Lancashire village of Overton (1900-1914); community life; scrambling for hot pennies at weddings; wedding parties and the food eaten; ...

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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 ...

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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...

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