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Basketmaking: Laundry Basket
Malden, John
October 1971
View of laundry basket in the process of being woven, showing basketmaker continuing the randing of the lid, Burdekin's Baskets, Flushdyke, near Ossett (West Yorkshire). Mounted on Photo File card. Ca...
Gathering Sheep for Shearing: Apedale
Kissling, Werner (1895-1988)
August 1965
Sheep being driven from the Apedale fells towards a large stone sheep fold to await shearing, by a shepherd working with his dogs. Sheep dogs visible to the left and at back of herd rounding up the sh...
Gathering Sheep for Shearing: Apedale
Kissling, Werner (1895-1988)
August 1965
Sheep being driven from the Apedale fells towards a large stone sheep fold to await shearing, by a shepherd working with his dogs. Sheep dogs visible to the left and at back of herd rounding up the sh...
Sound Recording, [Devon]
Panheinen, Ossi
[1970]
Mr. Woodman [?recorded in the garden of his home, in Honiton] talks about the dry weather; a flood two years previously; vegetable gardening; farm work and working hours [tape runs fast to this point,...
Sound Recordings, Lancashire and North Yorkshire
Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)
[1960-1980]
Compilation of Survey of English Dialects fieldwork recordings (copies) from Lancashire locations 5La11-12 and North Yorkshire locations 6Y1-2. The original recordings were made between November 1952 ...
Sound Recordings, Salop and Staffordshire
Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009); Barry, Michael V (1935-)
[1966-1980]
Compilation of Survey of English Dialects fieldwork recordings (copies) for Salop locations 11Sa9-11, and Staffordshire 12St1-4. The original recordings were made in 1955 and 1966. The date when this ...
Sound Recordings, England
Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)
[1950s/1960s]
Compilation of extracts from field recordings made as part of the Survey of English Dialects. These extracts were copied from gramophone disc recordings, with announcements by Stanley Ellis . A spea...
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...
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...
Decorative Arts
1970-1979
This file contains items relating generally to the decorative arts, including carving and the decoration of items. The file includes a photocopy of Carson I. A. Ritchie's article, 'Art of the Northern...
Games with Special Equipment
1968-1979
This file contains items relating to games played by children using special equipment, such as a ball or skipping rope. The file includes a photocopy of Bernard A. Barton's article, 'Let's Laik at Sum...
Sound Recordings, Cambridgeshire
Tammivaara, Irmeli
July 1974
[Collector announcement]; Mary Dawson, recorded in Doddington on the 8 July 1974; recollects her childhood in Doddington; marriage; children; skating matches; changes to the village; trandling for bir...