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Survey of English Dialects recording in Ronague, Isle of Man
Barry, Michael V (1935-)
Nov 1958
[Side 1] Amanda talks about local farms and farmhouses, recalls open fireplace in childhood home, remembers trips by horse and cart to collect ling for fire, describes apparatus for cooking and baking...
Couple Reading
[1970s]
Copy of a photograph dating to the early-20th century, of a man and woman sitting on wooden chairs in a dwelling house at an unidentified location. The woman has her back to the camera and is reading ...
Domestic Life in Rural Suffolk
Niccolls, Sharon
1982
A dissertation which analyses continuity and change in domestic customs and traditions in rural Suffolk, in the fifty years to 1982. The first of four chapters focusses on the housewife, and contains ...
Headwear and Accessories
1960-1972
This file contains items relating to types of headwear and accessories, and includes a photocopy of Shelagh Weir's paper on a bridal headdress from Southern Palestine, from an unidentified issue of th...
Sound Recording, Isle of Man
Barry, Michael V (1935-)
November 1958
[Collector announcement]; Amanda Crellin, recorded in Ronague; talks about cancer; prevalent diseases in her youth; smoking; hospital; food and drink in her father's time; going to school barefoot; ma...
Sound Recording, West Yorkshire
Morris, Patricia M
[September 1981]
Olive Metcalf, recorded at home in the Kirkstall area of Leeds; gives biographical details (born in the Bramley area of Leeds); recollections of baptism as a child; family; other Bramley families; Bra...
Sound Recordings, Suffolk
Pasanen, Leena
12 August 1971
[Collector announcement]; Sam Friend, a retired horseman, recorded in his home in Framsden. George Ewart Evans is also present, and prompts occasionally. Mr. Friend talks about working as a farm lad f...
Sound Recordings, South Yorkshire
Russell, Ian
1971-1973
Ken White in conversation in his home in Sheffield , 24 October 1971. Talk of family and childhood, and four songs. [Tr. 1] Albert Broadhead and Bernard Broadhead recorded in one of their homes, in ...
Sound Recordings, Yorkshire
Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)
[1960s]
Mr. Fisher of Thornhill, recorded in 1962; talks about working in a coal mine - hours of work, wages, scale picking (as a youngster); pushing tubs underground; describes the layout underground and the...