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Total number of records: 37

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handicraft37
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community life34
nature31
agriculture30
food27
animals25
food crops24
buildings22
culture22

Top 10: People and organisations

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Barry, Michael V (1935-)10
Tilling, Philip M (1938-)4
Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)3
Tammivaara, Irmeli3
Wakelin, Martyn F3
William3
Brooks, Margaret2
Johnson, Myers2
Kylstra, Henk E2
Orchard, Bill2

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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 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 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 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 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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The Living Dialect of Broughton in Furness, in the County of Lancashire

Round, Mabel G

1949

M.A. thesis examining the dialect of Broughton in Furness, based on data collected between September 1947 and April 1948. Its six chapters give a descriptive account of the sounds of the dialect recor...

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Sound Recordings, Warwickshire, Worcestershire and Oxfordshire

Barry, Michael V (1935-)

July 1966

[Collector announcement]; Harry Cook, recorded in Shipston on Stour (Warwickshire); talks about ploughing with horses and the setting up of a field in preparation; building and thatching hay/corn stac...

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Sound Recordings, Berkshire, Surrey, Essex and West Sussex

Barry, Michael V (1935-)

1959

[Collector announcement]; Charles Allen, recorded in West Ilsley; talks about ploughing with horses; ploughing with tractors; compares past and present; describes a working day on the farm; the villag...

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Sound Recordings, Devon and Cornwall

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

March 1963

[Stanley Ellis announcement]; Samuel Snell, recorded on his farm in Swimbridge; talks about the bad winter of 1962/1963; farming sheep and beef bullocks; Devon Closewool [sheep breed]; discuss sheep f...

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Sound Recordings, Derbyshire

Massarella, Mr

[1960s]

Unidentified female informant, recorded in Charlesworth [by male collector, from Canterbury]; talks about cotton mills and rope works in the area; changes in the village, including new housing and tra...

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Sound Recordings, Warwickshire

Barry, Michael V (1935-)

July 1966

[Collector announcement]; Arthur Humphries, recorded in Lighthorne on the 28 July 1966[Swiss male also present asks some questions, possibly Eduard Kolb, or Dieter Bothe]; Mr. Humphries talks about wo...

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Microfilm of Postgraduate Thesis on the Dialect of Broughton in Furness

Micro Methods Limited

[1970s]

A copy of Mabel Round's M.A. thesis (Leeds, 1949), 'The Living Dialect of Broughton in Furness, in the County of Lancashire'. The thesis is based on data collected in Broughton in Furness (Lancashire)...

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