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Total number of records: 8

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culture8
folk music8
humor8
persons8
english language - dialects7
play7
sports5
community life4
manners and customs4
entertainment events3

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Sullivan, Keith Frederick7
Foster, Jack2
Foster, Ralph2
Hales, Phil2
Palmer, Harry2
Pearson, John2
Sanderson, Joe2
Simpson, Thomas2
Spensely?2
Spensley, Walt2

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Folklore of Worsley: A Miscellaneous Collection of Tradition and Belief From the Area of Worsley, Salford Metropolitan District

Skinner, Margaret

1975

A study of the folklore of Worsley people, based on oral and printed sources. Interviews were conducted with older residents, and children at a Primary School in Walkden. The study contains a sectio...

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Sound Recording, North Yorkshire

Sullivan, Keith Frederick

26 November 1976

Singing as part of the Ugthorpe Quoits Club Quoits Supper, recorded in the Black Bull pub, Ugthorpe. Conclusion of session which starts on LAVC/SRE/A454r. Male sings 'The Rose of Tralee' and 'Will You...

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Sound Recording, North Yorkshire

Sullivan, Keith Frederick

3 April 1976

[Collector announcement]; Fryup Cricket Club Dinner, recorded in a pub [in Newton ]; general conversation; unidentified male recites Christmas rhyme (repeated) and a New Year rhyme (traditionally spok...

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Sound Recording, North Yorkshire

Sullivan, Keith Frederick

11 November 1977

Ugthorpe quoits team Quoits Supper, recorded at the Black Bull pub in Ugthorpe; Keith Sullivan sings 'The Dalesman's Litany' [4 of 6 verses]; [unidentified] sings 'Mother Macree'; John Pearson sings '...

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Sound Recording, North Yorkshire

Sullivan, Keith Frederick

18 March 1976

[Collector announcement]; Thomas Simpson, recorded at home in Lebberston; sings 'Since I've Had a Row with the Wife', and 'My Grandfather's Clock' [parody]; singing in pubs as a teenager; sings [unide...

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Sound Recording, North Yorkshire

Sullivan, Keith Frederick

19 March 1976

Thomas Simpson, recorded at home in Lebberston; sings 'All Jolly Fellows that Follow the Plough', [first line: 'When I was a jolly young ploughboy'], 'Farmer's Boy' and [first line: 'Come with me to t...

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Sound Recording, North Yorkshire

Sullivan, Keith Frederick

27 November 1976

[Collector announcement]; Phil Hales, recorded at home in Ugthorpe; talks about singing at the Quoits Supper; song repertoire; audience; barn dances and songs; musicals; learning songs; favourite song...

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Sound Recording, North Yorkshire

Sullivan, Keith Frederick

11 November 1977

Ugthorpe quoits team Quoits Supper, recorded at the Black Bull pub in Ugthorpe; includes jokes, monologues and song; anecdote re. two quoits players; the announcement of prize winners and presentation...

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