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occupations4
community life3
agriculture2
culture2
manners and customs2
social life and customs2
associations, institutions, etc1
beverage industry1
buildings1
clothing and dress1

Top 10: People and organisations

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Brooks, Margaret1
Bryon, Fiona1
Davidson, Albert1
Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)1
Kemp, P K1
Matthewman, T. Frank1
Paine, T1
Roberts, A. J.1
Roberts, George1
Roche, Gertie1

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Sound Recordings, Kent and London

Kemp, P K

September 1969

Bill Selsdon, recorded in Maidstone, describes hop picking in Headcorn (Kent) as a child with his family; accommodation in Hopper Huts; travelling from London (on the Hopping Train); hop picking seaso...

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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 Recording, South Yorkshire

Brooks, Margaret

17 February 1973

George Roberts, dry stone waller, interviewed in Cawthorne with T. Frank Matthewman (Chairman of Cawthorne Parish Council). GR explains dry stone wall construction techniques; source of stone; tools; ...

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Survey of English Dialects recording in Hunsonby, Cumberland

Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)

14 Jan 1954

[Side 1] Albert talks about his schooldays, describes eccentric schoolmaster 'caving' about [= dancing awkwardly] betwen desks talking to himself, eventually could not cope singlehandedly with 85 chil...

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Dialect recording in Biddenden, Kent

Paine, T

Sep 1958

[Side 1] Mr Paine describes typical annual cycle on hop farm incl. setting up poles and use of dung, explains best time to prune and dress hops, recalls picking hops by hand in past and drying over wa...

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