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Sound Recordings, Suffolk
Pasanen, Leena
August 1971
[Collector announcement]; Stanley Applett, a retired butcher, recorded in his home in Framsdenon the 3 August 1971; talks about his working life as a butcher; his apprenticeship and wages; joining the...
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,...
Walking Day: A Study of Church and Sunday School Processions in the North West
Baguley, Glynis Mary
1975
A study of the traditions associated with the Walking Day custom observed in Lancashire, Cheshire and parts of Yorkshire. This generally takes the form of a procession of Sunday School children and ch...
Sound Recording, Isle of Man
Barry, Michael V (1935-)
November 1958
[Collector announcement]; Amanda Crellin, recorded in Ronague; talks about cancer; prevalent diseases in her youth; smoking; hospital; food and drink in her father's time; going to school barefoot; ma...
Sound Recordings, Glamorgan and Monmouthshire
Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009); Parry, David (1937-)
1965
Mrs. Forward, recorded in Cwmavon; talks about her son; the dole and Depression in the late 1920s/early 1930s; family; life in the valley; working at a furnace shovelling coal during World War One; hu...
Sound Recordings, Suffolk
Dunn, Ginette
1974
Percy Webb, recorded at home in Tunstall Commonon the 31 October 1974 ; talks about making clay ovens [learned during World War One]; farm work; church choir; family; engagement; being gassed during W...
Sound Recordings, Kent
Barry, Michael V (1935-)
1958-1959
[Collector announcement]; Charles Joiner, recorded in Staple in December 1958; talks about storing apples in earth; first thatching job, aged fifteen/sixteen; describes thatch sewn onto barn roofs; hi...
Sound Recording, East Sussex
Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)
[1964]
Mr. W. Glapson, recorded in Horam; talks about his smallholding and retirement from farming; farm work - mowing corn with a scythe, binding and stooking, stacking; modern farming; first jobs, aged fou...
Sound Recording, Suffolk
Dunn, Ginette
19 July 1974
Percy Webb, recorded at home in Tunstall Common; talks about Army life (pay, food) whilst in India; experiences of World War One (where stationed, being shelled/gassed, trenches, leave, Armistice, inj...
Sound Recordings, Wiltshire
Wright, John T
August 1957
Ernest Kent, recorded in Netheravon; talks about driving hay waggons in the summer; Michaelmas ploughing with oxen; his father; hoeing and rates of pay; threshing with a flail; rates of pay; gleaned c...
Sound Recordings, Powys
Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009); Parry, David (1937-)
[1960s]
Bert Williams, recorded in Builth Wells [undated]; talks about the town as it was in his youth; describes various buildings, including a gatehouse, temperance houses, cattle market, brewery, Masonic H...
Sound Recordings, Suffolk
Pasanen, Leena
July-August 1971
[Collector announcement]; George Creasy, recorded at home in Framsdenon the 30 July 1971; recites the monologues 'Bill and Bob' and 'Harvest Carting in Suffolk'; talks about his working life on local ...