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Sound Recordings, Cambridgeshire
Tammivaara, Irmeli
July 1975
[Collector announcement]; Sidney Dewsbury, recorded in Pymore on 19 July 1975; talks about his working life; local floods in 1937 and 1940; work for river authority; strengthening/building river banks...
Sound Recordings, Cornwall
Wright, John T
24 November 1958
[Collector announcement]; William Rickards, recorded in Egloshayle; talks about farmwork on leaving school; wages; quarry work after World War One; working with his father in his flour mill, and then ...
Sound Recordings, Bedfordshire
Shaw, David H
1960
Joe Brimm and his wife, Mrs. Joe Brimm, recorded in Dunton; talk about a local road to Dunton Lodge; thatching a haystack and a wheatcock, the clothing (knee pads) worn and implements used; using a te...
Sound Recording, Suffolk
Dunn, Ginette
19 July 1974
Percy Webb, recorded at home in Tunstall Common; talks about Army life (pay, food) whilst in India; experiences of World War One (where stationed, being shelled/gassed, trenches, leave, Armistice, inj...
Making and Playing the Northumbrian Small-Pipes: A Study of Joe Hutton and Archie Dagg
Harrison, Stephen
1977
A study of one branch of the Northumbrian piping tradition, showing the functional role of the small-pipes in the area where the collector's two informants, Joe Hutton and Archie Dagg live. Emphasis i...
Sound Recordings, Suffolk
Dunn, Ginette
8 September 1974
Bob Hart and Lenny Townsend in conversation in the Horse and Groom pub, Wrentham [tape box reads Horse and Plough]. General conversation/banter, with reference to the Ship Inn at Blaxhall, and the col...
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, ...
Village and Farm
1960-1973
This subseries, comprising one file only, contains items on village and farm life, and related topics. This includes W. E. Tate's paper, 'Parish Records and the English Village Community', extracted f...
Sound Recordings, Manchester and Shropshire
Dunn, Ginette
April 1974
Fred Jordan, singing at the Bay Horse pub in Manchester on the 26 April 1974; sings 'Farmer's Boy', 'The Vacant Chair' and 'The Old Armchair'. [Tr. 1]. Conclusion of session which starts on tape LAVC/...
Sound Recording, Monmouthshire
Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009); Parry, David (1937-)
[1960s]
Mr. Padfield, recorded in Crosskeys [undated]; talks about the local landscape and afforestation; boom time for coal mines during World War One; economic slumps and unemployment, dole and soup kitchen...
Sound Recording, North Yorkshire
Sullivan, Keith Frederick
2 April 1976
[Collector announcement]; Raymond Hayes, recorded at home in Hutton-le-Hole; talks about songwriting, singing and playing at dances in the local school hall; playing the banjo and ukulele; sings and p...
Sound Recordings, Oxfordshire
Baldwin, John R
1966
Harry Lay, recorded at home in Bampton; talks about playing the character Father Christmas in a mummers' play performed in Bampton each year; recites lines from the play, and goes on to talk about his...