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Lewis, Bill1
Lewis, Cathy Laura1
Lewis, William H1
Lyonshall Response Book - 15He7
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Lyonshall Response Book - 15He7

Wright, Peter

16 Jun 1952 - 19 Jun 1952

Response book recording the answers given by informants during the Survey of English Dialect. It includes 9 sections that cover a range of topics relating to work, domestic and social life. Answers ar...

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Sound Recordings, South Yorkshire

Russell, Ian

June 1971

Charles Green singing at home in Dungworth, near Sheffield. Recorded 10 June 1971. [Tr. 8]. This session concludes on tape LAVC/SRE/A123r (AC048, Tr. 4). Billy Perkins singing and talking at home in...

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Sound Recording, Dorset

Panheinen, Ossi

[1970]

Bill Lewis, recorded in Netherbury; talks about farm work; horse husbandry; haymaking; recollections of the village of his childhood; roads; traffic (horses and carts); describes rock breaking with ex...

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Sound Recording, Northamptonshire

Skelton, G

[1979]

Male speaker [?originally from Norfolk], recorded in Wellingborough; recites a selection of narratives (monologues and anecdotes), a poem by C. L. Lewis, and poems from a volume of Norfolk dialect ver...

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A Phonology of the Dialect of Greyabbey, County Down

McKeown, Roy

1971

A study of the dialect spoken in the village of Greyabbey in Northern Ireland, based on interviews with three local informants. An introduction to the village and its environs is followed by four ch...

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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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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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Sound Recording, Redcar and Cleveland

Sullivan, Keith Frederick

7 February 1976

[Collector announcement]; William Hart, recorded at home in Wilton ; sings 'Out in the Wild World'; talks about his father and his employment on local farms and ironstone mines, his death in 1930; WH ...

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Sound Recordings, West Yorkshire

Lewis, Cathy Laura

May 1973

The Irish singer, Darach Ó Catháin [DOC], recorded on 7 May 1973 in Leeds; talks about coming to Leeds in 1960; reference to Brendan Behan and Seán Ó Riada [SOR]; singing and first meeting with th...

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