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occupations27
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food19
manners and customs18
persons18
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Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)5
Crook, Rosemary4
Dunn, Ginette4
Morris, Patricia M3
Parry, David (1937-)3
Barry, Michael V (1935-)2
Metcalf, Olive2
Tammivaara, Irmeli2
Arnold, Jim1
Bbc1

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Ageing, Needs and Nutrition: Pilot Questionnaire, Needs and the Individual Life History

Johnson, Malcolm

1978

This file contains a copy of a pilot questionnaire compiled for Malcolm Johnson's 'Ageing, Needs and Nutrition Study', conducted at the Nuffield Centre for Health Services Studies, University of Leeds...

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Some Aspects of Folk Life in Whitehaven

Graham, Jacqueline P

1980

A study of folk life in Whitehaven, based on information gathered from the collector's grandparents, visitors to their house and other family members, and covering roughly the seventy year period 1910...

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Sound Recording, Glamorgan

Crook, Rosemary

3 January 1980

Mary Morgan (of Ferndale) talks about her family (siblings; parents - occupations); domestic life - washing, bathing, cooking, sleeping arrangements; the General Strike; mining; mother-in-law working ...

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Sound Recordings, Glamorgan and Monmouthshire

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

1965

Mrs. Forward, recorded in Cwmavon; talks about her son; the dole and Depression in the late 1920s/early 1930s; family; life in the valley; working at a furnace shovelling coal during World War One; hu...

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Sound Recordings, Northumberland

Upton, Clive S

15 May 1974

[Collector announcement]; Mary Moffat, recorded at home in Earsdon; talks about doctors, a new Health Centre and home visits in the past; the village; Chapel; playing the organ; other musicians in the...

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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...

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Sound Recording, Suffolk

Dunn, Ginette

19 July 1974

Percy Webb, recorded at home in Tunstall Common; talks about Army life (pay, food) whilst in India; experiences of World War One (where stationed, being shelled/gassed, trenches, leave, Armistice, inj...

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Sound Recordings, Suffolk

Dunn, Ginette

1974

Margaret Howell, recorded at home in Snape on the 3 October 1974. General conversation covering song sheets, her sons, Christmas carols, remembering a particular song and her health; sings 'On the Ban...

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Sound Recordings, Powys

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

[1960s]

Bert Williams, recorded in Builth Wells [undated]; talks about the town as it was in his youth; describes various buildings, including a gatehouse, temperance houses, cattle market, brewery, Masonic H...

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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 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...

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Sound Recordings, Cambridgeshire

Tammivaara, Irmeli

July 1975

[Collector announcement]; George Green, recorded in Haddenham on the 28 July 1975. A second male is also present, who asks some questions and provides general information. Talk of a local tale teller;...

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