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Survey of English Dialects recording in Skelmanthorpe, Yorkshire

Orton, Harold (1898-1975)

04 Feb 1952

[Side 1] Wilsey provides responses to survey questionnaire Book IV NATURE, Book IV.1 (WATER, GROUND) incl. demonstration of local pronunciation of e.g. 'dike' [= stream], 'brig' [= 'bridge'], 'flooded...

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Sound Recordings, Kent

Barry, Michael V (1935-)

1958-1959

[Collector announcement]; Charles Joiner, recorded in Staple in December 1958; talks about storing apples in earth; first thatching job, aged fifteen/sixteen; describes thatch sewn onto barn roofs; hi...

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Sound Recording, Hampshire

Wright, John T

January 1958

Charles Dudman, recorded in a pub in Hatherden; talks about a shepherding job on leaving school; ?locus beans in sheep feed; work as a garden boy at Clanville Lodge; humorous anecdote re. a visit to [...

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Sound Recordings, Wiltshire and Hampshire

Wright, John T; Kylstra, Henk E

1957-1961

[Announcement by Henk Kylstra]; Ernest Packer, recorded in Ashton Keynes in July 1957, by John Wright; talks about work with horses and waggon, on leaving school aged eleven; agricultural wages; ploug...

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Sound Recordings, Dorset

Panheinen, Ossi

[1970]

Mr. Studley of Broadwindsor talks about the history of his family's farm; type of farming; livestock; recollections of farm work when a child; harvest time and the custom of making sweet hay; haymakin...

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Sound Recordings, Cambridgeshire

Tammivaara, Irmeli

June-July 1974

[Collector announcement]; George Warby and Olive Warby [continued from tape LAVC/SRE/A667r], recorded in Elm on the 27 June 1974; talk about the Charity Dole for agricultural workers from Elm and Frid...

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