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buildings10
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english language - dialects6
manners and customs6
social life and customs6
agriculture5
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Bonham-Carter, Victor1
Brunk, Wille1
Bryon, Fiona1
Dawson, Mary1
Dunn, Ginette1
Earnshaw, David R1
Ellington, Thomas1
Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)1
Garton, J. A.1
Hughes, Mr1

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Wood-Turning in the West Pennines

Earnshaw, David R

1966

A dissertation covering the development of three Lancashire family and village trades on the edge of the West Pennines. The three wood-turning firms studied are H. J. Berry and Sons Limited of Chippin...

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Sound Recording, Suffolk

Dunn, Ginette

12 September 1974

Horace White, recorded at home in Spexhall; talks about the village pub; the Suffolk feudal system; World War One; working life, including fishing in Fraserburgh (Aberdeenshire), local council in Suff...

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Farming Past and Present: A Study Based in the Village of Terrington St. John and the Surrounding Areas of the Fens of North West Norfolk

Pearson, Margaret Frances

1977

A study of the farming community of Terrington St. John in Norfolk, based largely on fieldwork interviews with local people. The study comprises nine chapters. The first presents a profile of the vill...

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Sound Recording, [West Yorkshire]

Bryon, Fiona

10 Dec 1980 - 15 Dec 1980

Jim Roche, recorded in his home, talks about the Leeds clothing industry in the 1920s/30s; starting work at John Baron's; describes contracting out, machinery, processes, hours of work, health (T.B. p...

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Sound Recordings, Cambridgeshire

Tammivaara, Irmeli

July 1974

[Collector announcement]; Mary Dawson, recorded in Doddington on the 8 July 1974; recollects her childhood in Doddington; marriage; children; skating matches; changes to the village; trandling for bir...

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Sheds at Cleveland House Farm
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Sheds at Cleveland House Farm

Brunk, Wille

January 1967

Brick-built sheds, including a smithy, at Cleveland House Farm, Hutton Gate (North Yorkshire). The sheds were built in the 1860s. Mounted on Photo File card. With ms. notes and catalogue details in th...

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Sussex Recipes

Lister, Sue

1967

A study of Sussex recipes, based on both printed sources and interviews with local people. The introductory section provides some historical background, descriptions of utensils, an ice house and a ba...

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Mines, Mining, and Mining Communities

[1955-1979]

This file largely consists of photocopied articles and magazine and newspaper extracts and cuttings, including G. Bernard Wood's article, 'Relics of Rural Coal Mines', on mining remains in Yorkshire, ...

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Sound Recordings, Powys

Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009); Parry, David (1937-)

[1960s]

Bert Williams, recorded in Builth Wells [undated]; talks about the town as it was in his youth; describes various buildings, including a gatehouse, temperance houses, cattle market, brewery, Masonic H...

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Sound Recording, Devon

Read, John (1884-1963)

8 July 1958

[John Read announcement]; John Read, recorded at the home of his friend, Victor Bonham-Carter, in East Anstey, giving his recollections of country life and the dialect in south-eastern Somerset. Talks...

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