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Total number of records: 12

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occupations12
culture10
english language - dialects7
community life5
folk music5
implements, utensils etc5
food4
play4
handicraft3
material culture3

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Langhorne, Richard3
Baldwin, John R2
'Dusty'1
Brown, I. M.1
Clarke, William1
Cotmore, Mrs1
Dawes, George1
Denning, Mr1
Dunn, Ginette1
Hamper, H Victor1

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Saddles and Horse Collars: A Study of Selected Craftsmen

Wynne, Victoria

1979

M.A. study on the manufacture of saddles and horse collars, based on fieldwork undertaken in Walsall. Firms visited include G. T. Palmer and Son and J. C. Huskisson and Son. Chapters cover the informa...

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Cheesemaking: Adding Rennet
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Cheesemaking: Adding Rennet

Kissling, Werner (1895-1988)

July 1963

Mrs. M. E. Scott adding rennet to milk in a copper cheese kettle, in her home, West Stonesdale ( Swaledale). The rennet is only added once the milk temperature is correct. Once the rennet is added, th...

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Needle Supports (Handknitting)
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Needle Supports (Handknitting)

Langhorne, Richard

18 June 1964

Seven carved wooden needle supports from villages in the Eden Vale (Cumbria), including Crosby Garrett, Penrith and Kings Meaburn. The supports form part of the Whitehead Collection at the Castle Muse...

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Needle Supports (Handknitting)

Langhorne, Richard

18 June 1964

Ten fancy carved wooden needle supports from Teesdale (Durham), from the Whitehead Collection at the Castle Museum, York. The supports include an elm bladed support with initials S.G. (Sarah Gargate),...

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Needle Supports (Handknitting)

Langhorne, Richard

18 June 1964

Seven wooden needle supports from Middleton in Teesdale, part of the Whitehead Collection at the Castle Museum, York. The supports include a hornbeam stay busk, chip-carved with motifs including heart...

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Sound Recordings, Suffolk

Dunn, Ginette

September 1974

Ruby Ling, recorded at home in Snape on the 6 September 1974; sings 'The Volunteer Organist', 'I'm the Man You Don't Meet Every Day', 'If I Were a Blackbird'; talks about singing at home; sings 'Happi...

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Sound Recordings, Oxfordshire and Gloucestershire

Baldwin, John R

1969

Mrs. I. M. Brown and Mrs. Cotmore [?sisters], recorded in Oxford in 1969. Recitation of the words to 'I had a Little Donkey', and the monologues 'Sally and Her Sweetheart', and 'Little Boy and the Err...

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Sound Recordings, Dorset

Panheinen, Ossi

[1970]

Mr. Denning, recorded in Netherbury; talks about the cider making process, including fermenting, corking and tapping barrels, quantities made, apple orchards, storage, the cider press (demonstrates/ex...

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Miscellaneous Dialect Papers 3

1960-1979

This file contains a photocopy of Vivienne Furze's paper on the Devonshire dialect, from an unidentified publication, pp. 20-21; an ms. orthographic and phonetic transcription of Purbeck marblers' dia...

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Sound Recordings, Wiltshire and Oxfordshire

Baldwin, John R

1968-1969

Session recorded at Swindon Folksingers' Club in 1968 [?possibly a regional English Folk Dance and Song Society- organised Christmas event]; accordion tune; unidentified male sings [? 'Can You Dance t...

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A Phonology of the Dialect of Merriott in Somerset

Hamper, H Victor

1959

A study of the dialect spoken in Merriott in Somerset, based on the collector's fieldwork interviews with one male informant in September 1958 and January 1959, the written field recordings made by Jo...

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Folk Song: General

1959-1981

This file contains typed song texts for 'Ah'm an O'wd Age Penshoner' (provenance unknown); a photocopy of the text and tune for 'Charley of Armor', collected from Captain Shields by Geoff Wood, from a...

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