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Total number of records: 21

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buildings21
dwellings21
community life18
culture16
manners and customs16
occupations13
social life and customs13
food12
agriculture11
education11

Top 10: People and organisations

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Pickering, Michael J4
Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)3
Morris, Patricia M3
Metcalf, Olive2
Parry, David (1937-)2
Tammivaara, Irmeli2
Thomson, Sydney2
Austin, Harry1
Baker, Alice1
Baker, Charles Albert1

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Sound Recording, West Yorkshire

Houck, Charles L

[Mid 1960s-1970s]

Interview with male informant in his home in Leeds, recorded as part of the collector's sociolinguistic inquiry in the city. The recording was made using a radio transmitter in the informant's house, ...

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Sound Recording, West Yorkshire

Morris, Patricia M

[September 1981]

Olive Metcalf, recorded at home in the Kirkstall area of Leeds; talks about food shopping for a large family; gardening and vegetable growing; breakfast; dinners (week's menu); offal/meat products; le...

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Sound Recording, Oxfordshire

Pickering, Michael J

25 March 1978

Fanny Hitchman, recorded in Adderbury; sings two songs. The first is a May song, the second is titled 'Dame Crump'. [Tr. 1] Male informant, recorded at home, remembers inhabitants of Adderbury; waln...

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Sound Recording, North Yorkshire

Liman, Ingemar (1938-)

October 1967

[Collector announcement]; Charles Horner, recorded at home in Conistone; talks about cow barns; hay and haymaking; livestock; milking and the use of back cans; skimming cream; butter and cheese; restr...

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Sound Recordings, West Yorkshire

Thomson, Sydney

November 1972

Children of Armley Park School, recorded in Leeds on the 17 November 1972; talk about joke and story telling; stories about local women thought to be witches; collector talks about trick or treating; ...

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Sound Recordings, West Yorkshire

Thomson, Sydney

November 1972

The children of Royal Park Primary School, Headingley, Leeds, recorded on the 21 November 1972; talk about poems and writing stories; Christmas presents, trees, decorations; collector talks about Chri...

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Sound Recording, Durham

Pickering, Michael J

5 April 1974

Professor Thomas Thacker, recorded at home in Durham; gives his recollections of Janet Bluntin the late 1920s/early 1930s; attitudes of villagers to her and vice versa; her family, folk song collectin...

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Sound Recording, West Yorkshire

Morris, Patricia M

17 September 1981

[Collector announcement]; Olive Metcalf, recorded at home in the Kirkstall area of Leeds; talks about living in back-to-back housing, Greenhow Walk; housework, including cleaning, gas lamps, cooking, ...

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Sound Recording, West Yorkshire

Morris, Patricia M

October 1981

Dorothy Ibbotson, recorded at home in the Kirkstall area of Leeds; sings 'The Warrior's Little Boy' (learned from her grandmother), and talks about her attempts to trace the song's origins; gives biog...

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Sound Recordings, Powys

Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009); Parry, David (1937-)

[1960s]

[Collector announcement (Ellis)]; Mr. ?Richards, recorded outside in Llanafan-fawr [undated]; talks about the electricity supply to the area; fire grates in local houses; peat burning; local dwellings...

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Sound Recording, Oxfordshire

Pickering, Michael J

September 1973

Harry Austin, recorded at home in Adderbury, talks about local people listed on an unidentified manuscript; comments on a number of local families, including the Welsh family, the Walton family, Marth...

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Sound Recording, Oxfordshire

Pickering, Michael J

September/October 1973

Winnie Wyatt, recorded at home in Adderbury, talks about Janet Blunt's folk song collecting, and people's perceptions of her in Adderbury; musical afternoons/evenings at her house; singing in the loca...

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