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Total number of records: 10

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community life10
food10
food crops10
nature10
occupations10
textile industry10
agriculture9
implements, utensils etc8
animals7
culture6

Top 10: People and organisations

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Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)2
Lobb, Francis James2
Lobb, Mrs.2
Wakelin, Martyn F2
Wright, John T2
Barry, Michael V (1935-)1
Blake, Fred1
Blake, Mrs1
Bushby, Lawrence1
Day, Fred1

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Corn Drilling Team

[1970s]

Copy of a photograph dating from the turn of the 19th/20th century, of three farmworkers with a three-horse team harnessed to a corn drill in fields at Thixendale (North Yorkshire). The drill has shaf...

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Seed Drilling Team

[1970s]

Copy of a photograph dating from the turn of the 19th/20th century, of two farmworkers with a three-horse team harnessed to a seed drill in fields at Thixendale (North Yorkshire). The man at the back ...

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Sound Recordings, Cornwall

Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009); Wakelin, Martyn F

March 1963

[Collector announcement]; Francis Lobb, recorded in St Ewe on the 29 March 1963; answers a selection of questions from the Dieth-Orton dialect survey Questionnaire [various Books]; discussion of left-...

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Sound Recordings, Cornwall

Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009); Wakelin, Martyn F; Wright, John T

1958-1963

[Collector announcement]; Francis Lobb, recorded by Stanley Ellis in St Ewe on the 29 March 1963; answers a selection of questions from the Dieth-Orton dialect survey Questionnaire [various Books]; di...

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Sound Recordings, Bedfordshire

Shaw, David H

1950s-1975

The first two [?radio broadcast] recordings on this tape relate to working and community life in Luton. The first, with an introduction by Ron Hall and possibly recorded in the late 1950s, is entitled...

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Basket, Straw and Rope-Work

1960-1973

This file includes a photocopy of typed notes made by Rodney Cousins on basket-making, collected from H. Summers, basketmaker, Sutton-on-Trent (November 1969) and from Herbert Lloyd Johnes' 'The Baske...

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Sound Recordings, Wiltshire

Wright, John T; Kylstra, Henk E; Orton, Harold (1898-1975)

1960

James Shipway, recorded in Avebury; talks about thatching; the loss of tradespeople in the village; reference to the renovation of a barn in the village [by the National Trust, now the Great Barn]; tr...

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Sound Recording, Buckinghamshire

Tilling, Philip M (1938-); Barry, Michael V (1935-)

1967

Francis Hutt, recorded in Horton; talks about building and thatching corn stacks; clipping hedges; market gardening; milk round with pony - first job, aged eleven; carters' wages; ploughing and horse ...

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Some Warwickshire Crafts

Wharton, Colin S

1969

This file contains a copy of a typed paper by Colin Wharton, on Warwickshire crafts. The paper is in two parts: Part I includes ms. illustrations and accompanying text; Part II consists of Wharton's i...

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Sound Recordings, North Yorkshire

Pitkannen, Hannu

[1960s/early 1970s]

[Collector announcement, in which he provides background information on his fieldwork project, the locations visited and informants interviewed; he also comments on the quality of the recordings, the ...

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