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The Black Country Dialect: A Collection of Words, Phrases, and Stories
Starkey, H J
1953
This file comprises an ms. notebook containing a collection of words, phrases and dialect texts of the Black Country (i.e. South Staffordshire, North Worcestershire and North West Warwickshire), compi...
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...
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; ...
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...
Sound Recordings, Manchester
Mulley, Ian
1976
Collector talks with small groups/pairs of children at Greenheys Junior School, Greater Manchester, about duppies (ghosts), rasta men, the police, jumbies (ghosts), visiting the West Indies, children'...
69 + 55 Ways to Aural Stimulation and Entertainment. A Look at the Joke
Turner, Anthony J P
1973
A survey of the joke and joke telling, with sections concerning the collection, provenance and classification of the 124 jokes and shaggy dog stories recorded on accompanying 15cm x 10cm index cards. ...
Sound Recording, West Yorkshire
McCosh, Sandra
[1973/1974]
Four 12/13 year old boys, recorded at Royal Park School in Leeds, discuss television comedians; give examples of Irish and Jewish jokes; when/to whom jokes are told; dirty jokes; black jokes; Scottish...
Sound Recording, Monmouthshire
Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009); Parry, David (1937-)
[1960s]
Mr. Padfield, recorded in Crosskeys [undated]; talks about the local landscape and afforestation; boom time for coal mines during World War One; economic slumps and unemployment, dole and soup kitchen...
Sound Recording, Lancashire
Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)
1963
Male informant [two women also present, ?wife and ?daughter], recorded in White Coppice; talks about his work for the Ministry catching moles and other pests; breeding/handling ferrets; rook shooting ...
Sound Recording, [Location Unknown]
Shaw, Carol
[1973/1974]
Herbert Pelham-Jones talks about joke-telling: the jokes he tells, why, when and where; reference to the Jokers' Club and Hampshire Club; gives examples of stories, inc. tongue twisters (crude); jokes...
Sound Recordings, West Yorkshire
Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)
[1960s]
James Gledhill, recorded in Golcar; talks about working in a woollen cloth textile mill - processes, differences between spinning/producing woollen and worsted materials; leisure time, including a des...
Sound Recordings, Lancashire
Taylor, Monica
[1970-1972]
Female informant [possibly the collector's mother], recorded in Haslingden ; talks about and recites a poem with the first line, At number one Bolton yard; sings 'Where oh where is my Norah?' [first l...