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fishing22
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manners and customs11
nature11
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english language - dialects10

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Tammivaara, Irmeli4
Czerkawska, Catherine Lucy3
Barry, Michael V (1935-)2
Cross, Miriam2
Powell, Herbert Thomas2
Annet, Mrs F. E.1
Balls, Ronnie1
Barker, Maud1
Bbc1
Berntsen, Howard N1

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Sound Recordings, North Yorkshire

[Mid-1960s]

Two males, recorded in Filey in 1962 [continued from tape LAVC/SRE/A563r. Date when this copy tape made not known]; in conversation about Filey - changes in transport provisions, local preacher, coble...

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Sound Recordings, [Devon]

Panheinen, Ossi

[1970]

Mr. Collins [location not given] talks about flour milling; flour mill and working conditions; milling machinery and processes; cider; wages and working conditions; wages on leaving school; Christmas;...

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Sound Recordings, North Yorkshire

[Mid-1960s]

Two males in conversation, recorded in Filey in April 1962. [Date when this copy tape made not known.] Reference to local people; fish and chip shops; singing in local pubs; fishing related - nets/lin...

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Phonology of the Dialect of Fleetwood, Lancashire

Wright, Peter

1949

A study of the dialect spoken in Fleetwood in Lancashire. A number of leaves have been removed from this piece of work, and as a consequence the current item starts at Chapter Three, on the developmen...

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Sound Recordings, Cornwall

Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009); Wakelin, Martyn F; Wright, John T

1958-1963

[Collector announcement]; William Willey, recorded by Stanley Ellis in Mullion on the 30 March 1963; answers a selection of questions from the Dieth-Orton dialect survey Questionnaire [various Books];...

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Sound Recordings, Essex

Berntsen, Howard N

1959-1961

Arthur Wapling, recorded in East Mersea; talks about farming methods; ploughing with horses - describes a stetch, dividing the field, (water) furrows and drainage; modern day farming - compares workin...

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The Phonology of the Dialect of Hoylake, Cheshire

Walters, Gillian S

1955

A study of the dialect spoken in Hoylake, Cheshire. An introduction to the town is followed by five chapters which which give a descriptive account of the sounds of the dialect recorded in 1955, des...

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The Phonology of the Living Dialect of Neston in Cheshire

Barry, Michael V (1935-)

1958

A study of the dialect spoken in Neston, Cheshire. An introduction to the town and the collector's informants is followed by six chapters which present a descriptive account of the sounds of the dia...

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Sound Recordings, East Anglia and Scotland

BBC; Parker, Charles (1919-1980)

[1950s]

'Singing the Fishing', the third of eight radio ballads transmitted by the BBC Home Service between July 1958 and April 1964. This programme was produced by Charles Parker, written by Ewan MacColl and...

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An Account of the Dialect of Staithes in the North Riding of Yorkshire

Lawson, Mabel Stockwell

1949

M.A. thesis examining the dialect of Staithes (North Yorkshire), based on fieldwork data collected in 1947 from six informants, using Joseph Wright's 'English Dialect Grammar', and the Dieth-Orton Que...

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Sound Recording, Suffolk

Dunn, Ginette

5 October 1974

Bob Hart, recorded at home in Snape, talks about village concerts, the singer Jack Davy, speeches re. the village and songs sung, village organisations, other singers, (step) dancing, village dances, ...

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Sound Recording, South Ayrshire

Czerkawska, Catherine Lucy

23 December 1973

Rob Gibson, recorded at home in Dunure, talks about his fishing career and the changes observed in the fishing industry; mussel beds; mussel baits and baiting of fishing lines, tools used; fishing boa...

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