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Trade - General
1964-1976
This file contains items relating to aspects of trading, including a typed paper by Ted Spiegel on Handslag, or striking a bargain, by farmers ([2] leaves); a typed extract listing bad luck beliefs in...
The Language of the Meat Trade: A Survey of Terms Used by a Selected Sample of Butchers in the United Kingdom
Upton, Clive Stanley
1977
Ph.D. thesis containing seven chapters and three appendices, presenting the findings of an enquiry into the technical lexicon of the meat trade of the United Kingdom which was carried out between 1973...
Dialect recording in Capheaton, Northumberland
Orton, Harold (1898-1975); Lenihan, J M A
13 Jun 1939
[Side 1] Matthew and William discuss demise of miller trade, express preference for beer brewed with barley hops, discuss rise of poultry trade; anecdote about ducks. [Side 2] Conversation between W.R...
Sound Recording, [Location not given]
Upton, Clive S
[Mid-1970s]
Male informant describes his career in the Birmingham butchering trade (of forty-nine years, since the age of fourteen); talks about keeping pigs; setting up his butcher's shop; gives answers to the c...
Sound Recording, Warwickshire
Upton, Clive S
[Mid-1970s]
Mr. D. T. Wharton, recorded in Rugby; gives answers to the collector's questionnaire concerning language and terminology associated with the butchering trade. The answers relate to the beef and pork s...
Sound Recording, [Location not given]
Upton, Clive S
[Mid-1970s]
Male informant talks about working in the meat trade since the age of thirty, having previously worked with his father selling fish and poultry/fruit and vegetables [in the ? West Midlands]; wartime a...
Some Aspects of Folk Life in the West Riding Village of Westend [sic] in Washburndale
Ferguson, I D B
1964
A Study of folk life in the West Riding village of West End (also known as Thruscross, and now in North Yorkshire). An introductory section provides a history of the village and surrounding area, foll...
Butchering Questionnaire
Upton, Clive S
1974
This file contains a fieldwork questionnaire designed to elicit information about the working practices and terminology used by people connected with the meat trade. The responses collected provided d...
Sound Recording, Herefordshire
Upton, Clive S
[Mid-1970s]
Roy Preece, recorded in Hereford; gives answers to the collector's questionnaire concerning language and terminology associated with the butchering trade. Questions relate to beef, lamb, pork and poul...
Sound Recording, Derby
Upton, Clive S
[Mid-1970s]
[Collector announcement]; Raymond Lindley and his wife [possibly recorded in Spondon, on the outskirts of Derby] give answers to the collector's questionnaire concerning language and terminology assoc...
Sound Recording, Shropshire
Upton, Clive S
[Mid-1970s]
John Whittall [recorded in a butcher's shop in Shrewsbury] gives answers to the collector's questionnaire concerning language and terminology associated with the butchering trade. Questions relate to ...
Sound Recording, Staffordshire
Upton, Clive S
[Mid-1970s]
[Collector announcement]; Charles Brown, recorded in Stoke-on-Trent; gives answers to the collector's questionnaire concerning language and terminology associated with the butchering trade. Questions ...