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nature22
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animals18
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occupations15
food14
culture12
buildings11
manners and customs10
food crops9

Top 10: People and organisations

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Liman, Ingemar (1938-)3
Tammivaara, Irmeli3
Barry, Michael V (1935-)2
Dunn, Ginette2
Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)2
Hull, Wally2
Shaw, David H2
Allen, Charlie (1879-1879)1
Baker, Alice1
Baker, Charles Albert1

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Little Lathe

Liman, Ingemar (1938-)

October 1967

Gable end of stone-built Little Lathe, a combined shippon and barn, near Conistone ( Wharfedale). Mounted on Photo File card with LAVC/PHO/P0201.

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Little Lathe

Liman, Ingemar (1938-)

October 1967

Front of stone-built Little Lathe, a combined shippon and barn, near Conistone ( Wharfedale). Mounted on Photo File card with LAVC/PHO/P0200.

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Little Lathe
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Little Lathe

Liman, Ingemar (1938-)

October 1967

Window to hay loft with wooden shutter, at stone-built Little Lathe, a combined shippon and barn near Conistone ( Wharfedale). Mounted on Photo File card with LAVC/PHO/P0203.

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Sound Recordings, Kent

Ross-Glass, Ruth M

c.1975-1980

Recordings of children made at four Kent schools, and adults attending Further Education institutions and a Young Wives' Group. In each case, the informants discuss ten fairy tales, selected by the co...

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Dialect recording in Morebattle, Roxburghshire

Dieth, Eugen (1893-1956); Orton, Harold (1898-1975)

23 Aug 1939

[Side 1] Mr Currie tells an anecdote about a minister seeking selection for the local kirk, general discussion of local flower show, leeks, barley soups, scabious. [Side 2] Mr Currie recites the story...

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The Phonology of the Living Dialect of Hargrave

Wilson, David S

1963

A study of the dialect spoken in the village of Hargrave, Northamptonshire, based on one informant's responses to questions from the Dieth-Orton Questionnaire, and an analysis of a tape recording of t...

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Sound Recordings, England

Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009); Barry, Michael V (1935-); Francis, W Nelson (1910-2002)

[1960s]

Compilation of extracts from field recordings made between 1953 and 1959 as part of the Survey of English Dialects, dubbed and edited from gramophone disc copies by Reg Ross of the University of Leeds...

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Devils, Saints and Heroes: A Collection of Stories, Customs and Beliefs from Bute, Arran and the Cumbraes

Clark, Elizabeth S M

1969

A collection of some of the customs, beliefs and narratives from four Scottish islands, Great Cumbrae, Little Cumbrae , Arran and Bute, gathered from printed sources and interviews with selected inhab...

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Sound Recordings, Hertfordshire and Cambridgeshire

Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)

[1950s]

Male informant, recorded in Therfield; talks about ploughing with horses; the self-binder; horse-driven threshing machine; storing corn, and selling at [?Royston] Corn Exchange; taking wheat to mill f...

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Sound Recording, Suffolk

Dunn, Ginette

11 September 1974

Priscilla Savage, recorded at home in Blaxhall; talks about the village Youth Hostel; her parents and siblings; food, diet and bread baking; own family and children; working in service; childhood in L...

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Sound Recordings, Cambridgeshire

Tammivaara, Irmeli

July 1975

[Collector announcement]; Wally Hull, recorded at Little Downham on the 15 July 1975 [continued from tape LAVC/SRE/A672r]; talks about winter weather; skating and champion skaters; his work as a postm...

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Sound Recordings, Berkshire, Surrey, Essex and West Sussex

Barry, Michael V (1935-)

1959

[Collector announcement]; Charles Allen, recorded in West Ilsley; talks about ploughing with horses; ploughing with tractors; compares past and present; describes a working day on the farm; the villag...

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