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Roads and Tracks
1963-1973
This file contains mounted magazine cuttings from 'John Peel Jottings' and 'Country Life', on bridges, cobble-laying, an ancient causeway in Wiltshire, an old tidal cart track at South Foreland (Kent)...
Track and Dry Stone Walls
Kissling, Werner (1895-1988)
May 1965
Farm track running between 2 dry stone walls at Thorpe ( Wharfedale).
Hikers
[1970s]
View from behind of two men with rucksacks walking along a dirt track across open moorland at an unidentified location.
SED Word Map: Path
[Mid 1950s-1960s]
Experimental printed word map for SED question IV.III.11, Path, mapping responses Path, Pad, Trod, Gate and Track.
Level Entrance: Old Gang Mine
Kissling, Werner (1895-1988)
1966
View of the area around the entrance to the Hard Level, Old Gang Mines ( Swaledale). Shows tracks for metal tubs (for removal of ore from the mine), stone bridge and barren landscape. Mounted on Photo...
Sound Recording, North Lincolnshire
Haldenby, Cynthia
1958
George Codd [continued from tape LAVC/SRE/A557r], recorded in Barton-upon-Humber; talks about the extent of his commercial sailing experience; preference for river over canal work; racing to deliver c...
Survey of English Dialects recording in Skelmanthorpe, Yorkshire
Orton, Harold (1898-1975)
04 Feb 1952
[Side 1] Wilsey provides responses to survey questionnaire Book IV NATURE, Book IV.1 (WATER, GROUND) incl. demonstration of local pronunciation of e.g. 'dike' [= stream], 'brig' [= 'bridge'], 'flooded...
Sound Recordings, Dorset
Panheinen, Ossi
[1970]
Mr. Studley of Broadwindsor talks about the history of his family's farm; type of farming; livestock; recollections of farm work when a child; harvest time and the custom of making sweet hay; haymakin...
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...