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Total number of records: 27

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Archives26
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Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture26
Cookery Collection1

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food27
meat27
food industry and trade26
occupations26
culture23
english language - dialects23
folklore13
clothing and dress11
persons11
textile industry11

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Upton, Clive S25
Hartshorne, Brian3
Brown, Charles2
Clifton, Gerald2
Lindley, Mrs2
Lindley, Raymond2
Morgan, Wilf2
Simmons, Ivy2
Simmons, Mr2
Eddy, B P1

Archive File

The Language of the Meat Trade: A Survey of Terms Used by a Selected Sample of Butchers in the United Kingdom

Upton, Clive Stanley

1977

Ph.D. thesis containing seven chapters and three appendices, presenting the findings of an enquiry into the technical lexicon of the meat trade of the United Kingdom which was carried out between 1973...

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The microbiology of fish and meat curing brines : proceedings of the Second International Symposium on Food Microbiology, held at Cambridge (United Kingdom) in April, 1957

Eddy, B P; Great Britain. Department of Scientific and Industrial Research; Low Temperature Research Station (Great Britain)

1958

Organized by the Low Temperature Research Station, University of Cambridge, and the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research.

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Sound Recording, Herefordshire

Upton, Clive S

[Mid-1970s]

Duplicate of tape LAVC/SRE/A713r.

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Sound Recording, [Location not given]

Upton, Clive S

[Mid-1970s]

Male informant [continued from tape LAVC/SRE/A542r] relates terminology associated with meat curing, the contamination of meat and the types of pest, vehicles used by butchers/meat traders, the names ...

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Sound Recording, [Location not given]

Upton, Clive S

[Mid-1970s]

Collector's father talks about the names given to people involved in the butchering and meat trade; and explains the butchers' use of back slang (a form of communication between butchers and their sta...

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Sound Recording, Greater Manchester

Upton, Clive S

[Mid-1970s]

Wilf Morgan, butcher, recorded in Mossley[continued from tape LAVC/SRE/A707r]; talks about a delivery pony and trotting races (the Pelican Mile); delivery vehicles - traps for orders/deliveries, drop-...

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Sound Recording, [Location not given]

Upton, Clive S

[Mid-1970s]

Collector's father gives answers to the collector's questionnaire concerning language and terminology associated with the butchering trade. Questions relate to beef, lamb, pork and poultry, and the an...

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Sound Recording, Staffordshire

Upton, Clive S

[Mid-1970s]

Ivy Simmons/? Ivy Simmonds, recorded with her husband [?at home in Tamworth]. Conclusion of interview which starts on tape LAVC/SRE/A545r, concerning the language of the meat trade. Informant gives th...

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Sound Recording, [Location not given]

Upton, Clive S

[Mid-1970s]

Male informant gives answers to the collector's questionnaire concerning language and terminology associated with the butchering trade. Questions relate to beef, lamb, pork and poultry, and the answer...

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Sound Recording, West Midlands

Upton, Clive S

[Mid-1970s]

Brian Hartshorne, a butcher recorded in Wolverhampton [continued from tape LAVC/SRE/A716r]; talks about slaughtering animals; pests and damaged meat; offal, blood and meat products; pickling; butcheri...

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Butchering Questionnaire

Upton, Clive S

1974

This file contains a fieldwork questionnaire designed to elicit information about the working practices and terminology used by people connected with the meat trade. The responses collected provided d...

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Sound Recording, [Location not given]

Upton, Clive S

[Mid-1970s]

Male informant talks about working in the meat trade since the age of thirty, having previously worked with his father selling fish and poultry/fruit and vegetables [in the ? West Midlands]; wartime a...

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