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Total number of records: 59

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food59
food crops59
community life58
occupations58
agriculture57
nature49
animals42
education33
culture32
manners and customs31

Top 10: People and organisations

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Barry, Michael V (1935-)15
Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)14
Tammivaara, Irmeli6
Tilling, Philip M (1938-)5
Dunn, Ginette4
Panheinen, Ossi4
Stigell, Ossi4
Wakelin, Martyn F4
Wright, John T4
Shaw, David H3

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Sound Recording, North Yorkshire

Sullivan, Keith Frederick

11 September 1976

[Collector announcement]; Mrs. Weatherill and daughter Linda, recorded at home in Ainthorpe. Mrs. W. sings 'My Grandfather's Clock', 'Farmer's Boy' and one verse of 'Springtime in the Rockies'; talks ...

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Sound Recordings, North Yorkshire

Sullivan, Keith Frederick

2 April 1976

Frank Raw, recorded at home in Danby with his wife, talks about the village; the decline of the young population and job opportunities in the Yorkshire Dales; changes in farming methods (mechanisation...

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Sound Recordings, Cambridgeshire and Essex

Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)

[1961]

Male informant, recorded in Comberton; talks about working on a farm from the age of eleven; his father and his farming; thatchers in the family; informant learning to thatch; describes a day's work; ...

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Sound Recording, West Yorkshire

Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009); Outhwaite, Paul N

October 1963

Benjamin Harrison, recorded in Farnley; talks about his working life, including work in a coal yard, coal deliveries, working with horses; harvest time; farm labourers' food; work during the summer ti...

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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, Somerset and Gloucestershire

Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)

[1950s]

Compilation of extracts from field recordings made as part of the Survey of English Dialects. Informant from Stogumber talks about cidermaking - factories and modern changes, the price of apples, c...

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Sound Recording, Suffolk

Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)

[1950s]

Male informant, recorded in Kedington; talks about his home, and its previous use as a (cobbler's) shop; changes in the village; increase in population; informant's family; first jobs - stone picking,...

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Sound Recordings, Dorset

Panheinen, Ossi

[1970]

Mr. Spiller of Broadwindsor talks about farming; milking cows; hedging and the decline in the numbers of hedgers; farm horses and ploughing; weeding corn; haymaking; women labourers; informant's famil...

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Sound Recordings, Essex and West Yorkshire

Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)

[1960s]

Martin Baynes, recorded in Henham (Essex); talks about his working life; jobs on leaving school, scaring birds, riding the chain horse at harvest time; working with horses from the age of 14/15; worki...

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Sound Recording, Hampshire

Wakelin, Martyn F

1964

Charles Sheppard, recorded in Bishop's Sutton; talks about working with pigs; rook starving [scaring] after the corn sown; scarecrows; service in the Rifle Brigade during World War One, in France; ret...

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Sound Recordings, Somerset and Devon

Wakelin, Martyn F

1964

Mr. H. Evett , recorded in Brompton Regis; talks about farm work; time started each day; working with horses; hours of work and wages; tools for hedging; also present is a Mr. A. Gibbs, who talks abou...

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Sound Recording, Essex

Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)

[June 1958]

Stacey George Dyer, recorded in Great Chesterford; talks about his grandfather and his work as a farm labourer; names for men mowing, depending on their position in the team; harvesting machinery; bin...

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