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Total number of records: 38

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travel38
home37
community life29
occupations23
culture21
nature21
play19
animals18
buildings16
manners and customs15

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Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)6
Orton, Harold (1898-1975)5
Lenihan, J M A4
Brunk, Wille3
Cordwent, Mr2
Hull, Wally2
Netherway, Mr2
Stigell, Ossi2
Tammivaara, Irmeli2
Armstrong, Hunter (1912-)1

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The Dialect of Golcar

Jacobson, Joanne

1974

M.A. project on one dialect speaker from Golcar, West Yorkshire . Analysis is made of material contained within a 34-minute tape recorded interview with Mr. Gledhill, made by Stanley Ellis in 1963. ...

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Annual Festivals: General

1962-1972

This file contains Mats Rehnberg's pamphlet on holidays and annual festivals in Sweden (Stockholm: Svenska Institutet, 1964), [24] pp.; a photocopy of the guide to the Stone Collection at Birmingham R...

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Walking Day: A Study of Church and Sunday School Processions in the North West

Baguley, Glynis Mary

1975

A study of the traditions associated with the Walking Day custom observed in Lancashire, Cheshire and parts of Yorkshire. This generally takes the form of a procession of Sunday School children and ch...

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The Effect of Tourism on a Highland Culture: A Study of Kilchoan, Ardnamurchan

Fisher, Nora M M

1976

A dissertation comprising five chapters. The first presents a brief history and description of the village of Kilchoan on the Ardnamurchan Peninsula. The second describes the old culture of the villag...

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Traditional Farm Buildings Excursion

Sanderson, Stewart (1924-)

1967

This file contains papers produced as a guide to an excursion organised for the British Association for the Advancement of Science's Leeds Meeting in September 1967. The excursion took place on 3 Sept...

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Sound Recordings, Stockton-on-Tees

Schrut, Judith Lynne

23 January 1977

Margaret Postgate, Trevor Postgate and George Robinson (all of Thornaby) discuss domestic crafts - dressmaking, sewing, knitting, quilt-making, embroidery, enamelling, horticulture, bee-keeping. [Tr. ...

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Mounting Stone
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Mounting Stone

Brunk, Wille

February 1967

Mounting stone outside the Bay Horse Inn, Great Broughton (North Yorkshire). Mounted on Photo File card with LAVC/PHO/P0342 and LAVC/PHO/P0343. Ms. catalogue details in the hand of Wille Brunk.

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Mounting Stone
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Mounting Stone

Brunk, Wille

February 1967

Mounting stone outside the Bay Horse Inn, Great Broughton (North Yorkshire). Mounted on Photo File card with LAVC/PHO/P0341 and LAVC/PHO/P0343. Ms. catalogue details in the hand of Wille Brunk.

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Mounting Stone
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Mounting Stone

Brunk, Wille

February 1967

Mounting stone outside the Bay Horse Inn, Great Broughton (North Yorkshire). Mounted on Photo File card with LAVC/PHO/P0341 and LAVC/PHO/P0342. Ms. catalogue details in the hand of Wille Brunk.

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Dialect recording in Newbiggin-by-the-Sea, Northumberland

Orton, Harold (1898-1975); Lenihan, J M A

23 Feb 1939

[Side 1] Mr and Mrs. Brown discuss holidays; George Brown and Mrs. Roe talk about recent day trips. [Side 2] rs. Brown, Mr Brown, George, Mrs. Roe, Hunter, Mrs. Cooper and Maggie demonstrate pronuncia...

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Dialect recording in Belford, Northumberland

Orton, Harold (1898-1975); Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)

18 Sep 1952

[Side 1] Fred tells anecdote about journey with grandfather to Newbiggin and Newcastle, remembers sitting on back of bus to avoid embarrassment as grandfather had habit of striking up conversation wit...

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Sound Recording, County Durham

Hargreaves, Lesley

December 1980

David Bennett and Olive Bennett, of Shotton Colliery, discuss foodways, domestic and occupational customs: Sunday dinner, Saturday mealtimes, Sunday tea, Christmas food, Easter food; food for special ...

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