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Total number of records: 34

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rites and ceremonies34
manners and customs33
culture30
holidays23
english language - dialects19
folk drama18
folk music13
persons13
clothing and dress10
communities8

Top 10: People and organisations

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Harrop, Peter K8
Ebot, Wilson Atem3
Tylor, Mr3
Barry, Michael V (1935-)2
Crellin, Mrs Amanda2
Ross, Mr2
Seal, Graham2
Ayers, Chris1
Calvert, Valerie E1
Clarke, William1
Midgley Pace Eggers
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Midgley Pace Eggers

[1960s]

Copy of a photograph of pace eggers performing in the open air at Midgley (West Yorkshire), around the 1940s. At the centre of the photograph, dressed in a top hat and dark suit, is the Doctor. Other ...

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Pace Eggers, West Yorkshire
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Pace Eggers, West Yorkshire

[1960s]

Copy of a photograph of a group of pace eggers performing in the open air at an unidentified location, probably in West Yorkshire. The players are all children (boys), and are all in costume. The play...

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Brighouse Pace Eggers
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Brighouse Pace Eggers

Tylor, Mr

[1960s]

Copy of a photograph taken in the 1940s, of members of the Brighouse Children's Theatre performing a pace egg play in the open air at Brighouse (West Yorkshire). The Doctor, wearing a top hat and dark...

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Pace Eggers, West Yorkshire
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Pace Eggers, West Yorkshire

[1960s]

Copy of a photograph of a group of pace eggers performing in the open air at an unidentified location, probably in West Yorkshire. The players are all children (boys), and are all in costume. The Doct...

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Pace Eggers, West Yorkshire
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Pace Eggers, West Yorkshire

[1960s]

Copy of a photograph of a group of pace eggers performing in the open air at an unidentified location, probably in West Yorkshire. The players are all children (boys), and are all in costume. The play...

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Brighouse Pace Eggers
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Brighouse Pace Eggers

Tylor, Mr

[1960s]

Copy of a photograph taken in the 1940s, of members of the Brighouse Children's Theatre performing a pace egg play in the open air at Brighouse (West Yorkshire). The Doctor, wearing a top hat and dark...

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Brighouse Pace Eggers
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Brighouse Pace Eggers

Tylor, Mr

[1960s]

Copy of a photograph taken in the 1940s, of members of the Brighouse Children's Theatre performing a pace egg play in the open air at Brighouse (West Yorkshire). The Doctor, wearing a top hat and dark...

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Survey of English Dialects recording in Ronague, Isle of Man

Barry, Michael V (1935-)

Nov 1958

[Side 1] Amanda talks about local farms and farmhouses, recalls open fireplace in childhood home, remembers trips by horse and cart to collect ling for fire, describes apparatus for cooking and baking...

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Pace Eggers, West Yorkshire
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Pace Eggers, West Yorkshire

[1960s]

Copy of a photograph of a group of pace eggers performing in the open air at an unidentified location, probably in West Yorkshire. The players are all children (boys), and are all in costume. The Doct...

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"Gypsy Wedding"

[1970s]

Copy of a photograph taken in 1910 of the wedding of Sally Penfold to Mr. Orchard at Holsworthy (Devon). The bride and groom, and their guests, stand in a field in the open. The second man from the le...

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Sound Recording, Isle of Man

Barry, Michael V (1935-)

November 1958

[Collector announcement]; Amanda Crellin, recorded in Ronague; talks about cancer; prevalent diseases in her youth; smoking; hospital; food and drink in her father's time; going to school barefoot; ma...

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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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