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Sound Recordings, North Yorkshire
Cook, Catherine
[1970-1971]
George Rispin and Miss Brown relate various anecdotes concerning unidentified noises, the Devil, Bouthwaite Hall, haunting at High Lofthouse, local preachers; also talk of a witch's chimney seat, glas...
Sound Recordings, West Yorkshire
Latham-Thorpe, Jane Elizabeth
1976
Five adults (3 men, 2 women), recorded in Leeds, relate their versions of the same narratives: a shaggy-dog story, a contemporary legend concerning the building of the Rotunda in Birmingham, a local s...
Sound Recordings, West Yorkshire
Latham-Thorpe, Jane Elizabeth
1976
Child and adult groups, recorded in Leeds. First session Children's Group: 5 schoolchildren relate their versions of the same (humorous, supernatural) narratives. Second session Children's Group: sa...
Ghost Stories of Salford and District
Gardiner, Margaret Alison
1979
An examination of supernatural legends about people associated with locations within the Metropolitan District of Salford.
Sound Recordings, Somerset
Palmer, Kingsley
1969
Female informant relates stories regarding local old women; the arrival of the Methodists; and a young man riding a horse. Miss Pavey of Walford, recorded 2 April 1969, talks about tunnels to caves ...
Visions and Sounds
1967-1971
This file contains mounted magazine cuttings from 'Country Life', including 1 photocopy, on ghostly apparitions and sounds. The subject matter includes phantom horse-drawn coaches, ghostly music, phan...
Sound Recordings, Somerset and Dorset
Palmer, Kingsley; Reid, M
[1968-1969]
Female informant [possibly conclusion of interview with Mrs. Brown from the end of tape LAVC/SRE/A234r] talks about a grey dog ghost at The Grange; and the Churchills' house. Mr. J. Hodges of Blandf...
Sound Recordings, North Yorkshire
Cook, Catherine
[1970-1971]
George Metcalfe of Middlesmoor talks about Dead Mans Hill and the legend of a couple who robbed and murdered people on the pack trail, and buried them in the peat moorland where the bodies are preserv...
Folk Medicine
Wood, Richard
1965
An examination of some of the medical beliefs and practices of the past in North Yorkshire, based on printed sources (including the writing of Eliza Gutch and Richard Blakeborough), and interviews wit...
Sound Recordings, Somerset
Palmer, Kingsley
[1968-1969]
Mr. E. Hallet relates the Dick Turpin legend; and the origin of the place name Allowenshay. Conclusion of interview which starts on tape LAVC/SRE/A233r. Mrs. Collings of Dowlish Wake talks about a w...
Lore and Legend of the Western Fen Borderland
Toffler, Lenora Clare
1967
A study of the folklore of eleven informants living in villages to the north of Peterborough ( Crowland, Helpston, Whittlesey, Glinton and Maxey). The study comprises five chapters, with the first pre...
Sound Recording, North Yorkshire
Cook, Catherine
November 1970
John Swales [JS], recorded in Merryfield Glen, sings I've got a father in the better land [first line]; Poor ?Jeffrey's gone to rest[first line], and other song fragments, including 'See Amid the Wint...