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Total number of records: 36

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community life36
entertainment events36
home36
food27
manners and customs27
occupations27
nature25
culture23
animals20
agriculture19

Top 10: People and organisations

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Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)6
Tammivaara, Irmeli3
Barry, Michael V (1935-)2
Cordwent, Mr2
Gledhill, James2
Lyons, Bernard2
Lyons, Gillian2
Lyons, Margaret2
Netherway, Mr2
Orton, Harold (1898-1975)2

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Dialect recording in Belford, Northumberland

Orton, Harold (1898-1975)

21 Jul 1938

[Side 1] Recipe for gooseberry chutney, jams, tarts, discussion of films showing at local 'pictures' [= cinema], comparison of daily chores, plans for forthcoming carnival, including playing in ladies...

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Dialect recording in Humshaugh, Northumberland

Orton, Harold (1898-1975); Lenihan, J M A

07 Jun 1939

[Side 1] Mrs. Ritson and Madge discuss embroidery for church bazaar, compare hand sewing with machine sewing, mention range of home-baked breads and cakes available at bazaar. [Side 2] William and Mad...

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Walking Day: A Study of Church and Sunday School Processions in the North West

Baguley, Glynis Mary

1975

A study of the traditions associated with the Walking Day custom observed in Lancashire, Cheshire and parts of Yorkshire. This generally takes the form of a procession of Sunday School children and ch...

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Survey of English Dialects recording in Dolphinholme, Lancashire

Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)

24 May 1954

[Side 1] Bill describes baking oatcakes over open fire with 'spittle' [= wooden baking shovel] and 'cratch' [= drying rack], talks about owners of Wyreside Hall and working with horses, recalls runawa...

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Sound Recordings, [Cambridgeshire]

Lyons, Margaret

December 1978

[Collector announcement]; Gillian Lyons [collector's mother], recorded in the family kitchen [in Cambridgeshire], talks about Christmas food; Anne Sorrell [collector's sister] talks about family Chris...

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Sound Recording,

Holloway, Charles

30 December 1978

The collector's parents, Mr. C. R. P. Holloway and Mrs. W. J. Holloway discuss family Christmas traditions - games, children's parties, belief in Santa Claus, Christmas walks, skating on Boxing Day, h...

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Sound Recordings, [Cambridgeshire]

Lyons, Margaret

Dec 1978

[Collector announcement]; collector's grandmother [ recorded in Cambridgeshire]; offers childhood recollections of Christmas in the 1910s/1920s - presents, food and drink, supper, singsongs, games (ch...

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Sound Recordings, [Shropshire and Birmingham]

Carter, Julie

29 Dec 1978 - 4 Jan 1979

[Collector announcement - informant collector's grandmother]; Alice Payne 's recollections of Christmas in Shropshire - preparations, including collecting holly; presents; food (Christmas pudding, cak...

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Annual Festivals: General

1962-1972

This file contains Mats Rehnberg's pamphlet on holidays and annual festivals in Sweden (Stockholm: Svenska Institutet, 1964), [24] pp.; a photocopy of the guide to the Stone Collection at Birmingham R...

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Sound Recordings, Cambridgeshire

Tammivaara, Irmeli

June 1974

Miriam Cross, recorded at home in Prickwillow on 10 June 1974; talks about her childhood home in the village; parents (farmers); baking using a brick oven; jam making; pig killing; describes the Fen r...

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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 Recordings, [Derbyshire]

Wright, Fiona J

December 1978

[Collector announcement: informant's name, year and place of birth]; Linda Aldcroft talks about her childhood Christmases in Altrincham (Cheshire) - preparations, including Stir Up Sunday (cake/puddin...

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