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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)...
Track and Dry Stone Walls
Kissling, Werner (1895-1988)
May 1965
Farm track running between 2 dry stone walls at Thorpe ( Wharfedale).
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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; ...
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 [...
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...
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...