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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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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 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...
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...
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...
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...
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, 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;...