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Total number of records: 29

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agriculture29
occupations29
culture28
folk music28
community life23
english language - dialects19
manners and customs15
play13
public buildings10
sports10

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Sullivan, Keith Frederick29
Simpson, Thomas7
Hart, William3
Gallon, Jacky2
Gallon, Luke2
Gallon, Mrs2
Bennett, Mrs1
Bennett, Ray1
Brown, Ralph1
Cornfirth, Sid1

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Sound Recording, North Yorkshire

Sullivan, Keith Frederick

2 April 1975

[Collector announcement]; George Ellerby, recorded outside his home, Forest Lodge Farm, in Castleton; talks about the songs he knows, and the problems of writing them down in Yorkshire dialect; his so...

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Sound Recording, North Yorkshire

Sullivan, Keith Frederick

11 February 1975

[Collector announcement]; Thomas Simpson, recorded at home in Lebberston; sings [unidentified]; sings 'Since I've Had a Row with the Wife'; talks about and sings his version of 'My Grandfather's Clock...

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Sound Recording, North Yorkshire

Sullivan, Keith Frederick

18 March 1976

[Collector announcement]; Thomas Simpson, recorded at home in Lebberston; sings 'Since I've Had a Row with the Wife', and 'My Grandfather's Clock' [parody]; singing in pubs as a teenager; sings [unide...

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Sound Recording, North Yorkshire

Sullivan, Keith Frederick

18 March 1976

[Collector announcement]; Thomas Simpson, recorded at home in Lebberston; sings 'It's a Long Way to Tipperary'; talks about personal changes in employment after World War Two, and his move away from f...

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Sound Recording, North Yorkshire

Sullivan, Keith Frederick

19 March 1976

Thomas Simpson, recorded at home in Lebberston; sings 'All Jolly Fellows that Follow the Plough', [first line: 'When I was a jolly young ploughboy'], 'Farmer's Boy' and [first line: 'Come with me to t...

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Sound Recording, North Yorkshire

Sullivan, Keith Frederick

11 December 1976

[Collector announcement]; Thomas Simpson, recorded at home in Lebberston; talks about his singing; sings 'All Jolly Fellows that Follow the Plough', and talks about the subject of the song (ploughman'...

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Sound Recording, North Yorkshire

Sullivan, Keith Frederick

11 December 1976

[Collector announcement]; Thomas Simpson, recorded at home in Lebberston; talks about singing at the Plough pub [?in Lebberston], changes to the pub, the importance of holiday camps to pub custom, the...

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Sound Recording, North Yorkshire

Sullivan, Keith Frederick

12 December 1976

[Collector announcement]; Thomas Simpson, recorded at home in Lebberston; talks about singing in the village pub, including on Christmas Eve; the disallowing of singing in pubs, especially in Scarboro...

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Sound Recording, Redcar and Cleveland

Sullivan, Keith Frederick; Green, Anthony E (1943-)

29 November 1975

William Hart, recorded at home in Wiltonby Tony Green [?daughter and son-in-law, Ray Bennett and Mrs. Ray Bennett, also present]. WH sings 'Guisborough Fair' and 'I'd Never Tell a Lie This Day', lea...

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Sound Recording, Redcar and Cleveland

Sullivan, Keith Frederick

8 February 1976

[Collector announcement]; William Hart, recorded at home in Wilton; sings [ 'Mary Ann Malone']; talks about his song repertoire; sings 'The Day I Left Old Ireland', 'Patsy Fagan' and 'Where Did You Ge...

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Sound Recording, Redcar and Cleveland

Sullivan, Keith Frederick

1 December 1976

[Collector announcement]; William Hart, recorded at home in Wilton; talks about a folk club, the Half Moon pub in Lazenby - singing there before and after marriage; song repertoire; sings 'All Jolly F...

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Sound Recording, North Yorkshire

Sullivan, Keith Frederick

29 March 1976

[Collector announcement]; David Hartley, recorded at home in Castleton[wife also present]; gives biographical details; talks about his wife; father's tenant farm; exemption from service during World W...

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