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Total number of records: 29

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culture29
folk dancing29
folk music28
english language - dialects22
occupations20
community life17
agriculture16
play15
manners and customs14
persons14

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Dunn, Ginette22
Harrop, Peter K5
Poacher, Cyril (1910-1999)5
Hart, Bob (1892-1978)4
Webb, Percy4
Cooke, Jane A2
Holy Jim2
Jimmy2
Knights, James (1880-1880)2
Ling, Percy (1906-1982)2

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Sound Recording, Oxfordshire

Harrop, Peter K

May 1978

Bampton Morris Dancers dancing outside in Bampton; fiddle and accordion accompaniment. Possibly a continuation of the recording on tape LAVC/SRE/A497r.

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Sound Recordings, West Yorkshire and Lancashire

Harrop, Peter K

March 1978

[Collector announcement]; Brighouse Children's Theatre perform a Pace Egg Play, outside the Piece Hall in Halifax on the 25 March 1978. [Tr. 3] [Collector announcement]; the Britannia Coconut Dancer...

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Sound Recording, Oxfordshire

Harrop, Peter K

29 May 1978

Bampton Morris Dancers dancing in Bampton [followed by collector announcement - team leader, location and date]; accordion accompaniment, crowd noise, morris bells [collector announces team leader for...

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Sound Recordings, Oxfordshire

Harrop, Peter K

May 1978

[Collector announcement]; Bampton Morris Dancers' get together [?recorded in a Bampton pub]; female sings [unidentified]; male relates an anecdote regarding the meeting of the Bampton Morris Dancers; ...

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Sound Recordings, West Yorkshire

Cooke, Jane A

[1979-1980]

First part of this tape comprises a compilation of extracts from the collector's fieldwork recordings in Birdsedge (principally, clapping and skipping rhymes). [Tape labelled demonstration.] [Tr. 1] ...

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Sound Recording, Suffolk

Dunn, Ginette

10 September 1974

Cyril Poacher, recorded at home in Blaxhall; talks about his song repertoire and singers he has learned songs from; Bob Scarce; Percy Webb; old Blaxhall singers; singing at the Ship Inn, Blaxhall - al...

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Sound Recording, Suffolk

Dunn, Ginette

October 1974

Dick Woolnough, recorded at home in Snape during the 30th and 31st of October [woman and small child - ?daughter and grandson - also present]. Sings 'London Apprentice Boy'; comments/conversation; sin...

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Sound Recording, Suffolk

Dunn, Ginette

30 June 1975

Arthur Drewery, recorded at home in Blaxhall; talks about his song repertoire; sings 'The Blackboard of My Heart'; reference to the Blaxhall Ship Inn, and the Lion pub, Little Glemham; learning songs ...

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Sound Recordings, Suffolk

Dunn, Ginette

1974

Cyril Poacher, recorded at home in Blaxhall on the 3 October 1974; sings 'A Broadside', 'The Bonny Bunch of Roses', 'Whitewash' [learned from his father]; talks about farm work and wages, the song 'Th...

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Sound Recordings, Suffolk

Dunn, Ginette

July 1974

Lenny Savage, recorded at home in Snape on the 18 July 1974; talks about his childhood, work on a rabbit farm and with steam engines; singing and step dancing (including women dancers) at the Ship Inn...

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Sound Recordings, Oxfordshire

Harrop, Peter K

29 May 1978

Bampton Morris Dancersdancing outside in Bampton, with musical accompaniment on an accordion and fiddle. ?Recorded at a gala/fete event - crowd noise and public address announcement is audible. [Tr. 9...

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Sound Recording, Suffolk

Dunn, Ginette

16 April 1974

Bob Hart, recorded at home in Snape, relates biographical details, including working on the land and at sea; his experience of World War One (wounded 1916); homecoming and work at the Snape Maltings; ...

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