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Total number of records: 18

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community life18
play18
sports18
culture15
occupations14
manners and customs11
wealth10
buildings8
english language - dialects8
nature8

Top 10: People and organisations

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Houck, Charles L3
Wakelin, Martyn F3
Pickering, Michael J2
Tammivaara, Irmeli2
Tilling, Philip M (1938-)2
Wright, John T2
Austin, Harry1
Bartle, Billy1
Bergal, Nancy Ann1
Bonham-Carter, Victor1

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Sound Recording, Hampshire

Wakelin, Martyn F

1964

Charles Sheppard, recorded in Bishop's Sutton; talks about working with pigs; rook starving [scaring] after the corn sown; scarecrows; service in the Rifle Brigade during World War One, in France; ret...

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Sound Recording, Cornwall

Wakelin, Martyn F; Tilling, Philip M (1938-)

July 1963

Harry Welshman, recorded in Duloe; talks about his time in the village; agricultural work and wages; leaving school aged fourteen; father's work as a gamekeeper; Army service during World War One; tak...

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Sound Recording, North Yorkshire

Whitney, Norman F

[1961/1962]

Male and female [?students] interview an unidentified blacksmith in Glaisdale; who describes making horseshoes and fitting a new shoe to a horse (shoeing); describes a horseshoe, and compares shoeing ...

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Sound Recording, West Yorkshire

Bergal, Nancy Ann

15 February 1980

Geoff Wood and Bob Spray, recorded at the Grove Folk Club in Leeds. Talk of folk clubs in Leeds and the role of Brian Senior; also clubs at the Coach and Horses, [?Seven Hills] and the Union Tavern; t...

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Sound Recording, Cornwall

Wakelin, Martyn F; Tilling, Philip M (1938-)

July 1963

Renfred Knowles, recorded in St Day ; describes a working day in a [?tin] mine, including charging holes and blasting; being a miner for thirty years; working with boring machines; occupational diseas...

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Sound Recording, Monmouthshire

Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)

[1970]

Frank Corton, recorded in Newport [niece and wife also present]; talks about his work as a crane operator in Newport Docks; emptying/banking iron ore from ships; lists jobs on leaving school; describe...

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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

Cheichel, Edna

1970

Various informants recorded at Donisthorpe Hall Old People's Home in Leeds. Leizer Gold sings unidentified song; male sings unidentified song; male ( Rabbi Safer) relates an incident, and other inform...

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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 Recordings, Devon

Wright, John T

October 1958

[Announcement, ?by Tony Green]; Ernest Smythe, recorded in Parracombe; talks about working life on the railway (as office boy, timekeeper); gangs working on the line, and the difficulty of building it...

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Sound Recordings, Cambridgeshire

Tammivaara, Irmeli

July 1975

[Collector announcement]; Harry Lowe, recorded in Stretham on the 24 July 1975; talks about food and the cost of living; working on a carrier's cart to Cambridge; farm labourers' wages; being an appre...

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Sound Recordings, West Yorkshire

Houck, Charles L

[Mid 1960s-1970s]

Male and female informant responses to a questionnaire used by the collector as part of his sociolinguistic inquiry in Leeds. For the purposes of data collection, the city was divided into a number of...

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