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gardening3
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animals2
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Crook, Rosemary1
Gilbert, Richard1
Joyce, Andrew1
Joyce, Horace1
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Orton, Harold (1898-1975)1
Smythe, Ernest Arthur1
Thomas, Ceridwen1
Turnbull, Jimmy1
Wright, John T1

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Dialect recording in Belford, Northumberland

Orton, Harold (1898-1975)

18 Jul 1939

[Side 1] Jimmy and John discuss plans for Whit Monday outing, picnic of beer and sandwiches at 'Cuddy's Cove' [= St Cuthbert's Cave], express hopes of sighting black-headed gulls. [Side 2] Andrew, Les...

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Sound Recording, Glamorgan

Crook, Rosemary

22 February 1980

Ceridwen Thomas offers recollections of her childhood in early twentieth century Treorchy - World War One, housework, gardening; also, childbirth; parental discipline; miners' strikes; Rhondda cake; S...

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Sound Recordings, Devon

Wright, John T

October 1958

[Announcement, ?by Tony Green]; Ernest Smythe, recorded in Parracombe; talks about working life on the railway (as office boy, timekeeper); gangs working on the line, and the difficulty of building it...

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