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Brook, Ann1
Buglar, Mr1
Bushell, Mr William1
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Archive File

Roads and Tracks

1963-1973

This file contains mounted magazine cuttings from 'John Peel Jottings' and 'Country Life', on bridges, cobble-laying, an ancient causeway in Wiltshire, an old tidal cart track at South Foreland (Kent)...

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Track and Dry Stone Walls
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Track and Dry Stone Walls

Kissling, Werner (1895-1988)

May 1965

Farm track running between 2 dry stone walls at Thorpe ( Wharfedale).

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Communications

1963-1973

This subseries contains items relating to modes of travel and communications. The subject matter broadly includes roads and tracks, the bicycle and its use in modern society, horse-drawn vehicles and ...

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Tape Index Card

n.d.

Small ms. note with information on the contents of a tape recorded by Maxine Baker of singing in Northumberland and Durham. Notes singers, songs and track order. Headed with the title 'badly edited ta...

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Sound Recording, North Lincolnshire

Haldenby, Cynthia

1958

George Codd [continued from tape LAVC/SRE/A557r], recorded in Barton-upon-Humber; talks about the extent of his commercial sailing experience; preference for river over canal work; racing to deliver c...

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Sound Recording, West Yorkshire

Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)

1958

George Moorhouse and Annie Moorhouse, recorded in Windhill; talk about houses and housing; animal keeping; upbringings; [textile] mill work; vandalism and modern children; anecdotes about various loca...

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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 Recordings, West Yorkshire

Houck, Charles L

[Mid 1960s-1970s]

Male and female informant responses to a questionnaire used by the collector as part of his sociolinguistic inquiry in Leeds. For the purposes of data collection, the city was divided into a number of...

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Sound Recordings, North East England

Bird, Elizabeth

November 1973

[Collector announcement]; Evelyn Johnston talks about the Black Watch Jazz Band of Bedlington (Northumberland) during the period 1927-1928; boy and girl members; uniform; instruments; batons; mascot; ...

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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 Recording, North Yorkshire

Sullivan, Keith Frederick

1 December 1976

[Collector announcement]; Raymond Hayes, recorded at home in Hutton-le-Hole; sings and plays [ 'All the Darkies are A-Weeping'] on the ukulele, followed by [ 'She's My Sweetheart'], [ 'Wait 'Til the C...

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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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