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Total number of records: 17

Top 10: Subject

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community life17
education17
culture16
folk music16
occupations15
agriculture13
english language - dialects12
food10
folk dancing7
food crops7

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Dunn, Ginette17
Hart, Bob (1892-1978)4
Ling, Ruby2
Savage, Priscilla (1881-1881)2
Webb, Percy2
Belton, George (1898-1980)1
Bennett, Basil1
Durrant, Lil1
Evans, George Ewart (1909-1988)1
Holy Jim1

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Sound Recordings, Suffolk

Dunn, Ginette

July 1974

Bob Hart, recorded at home in Snape on the 16 July 1974, sings and comments on 'Great Red Dawn'; attempts 'When the Sunset Turns the Ocean Blue to Gold'; sings 'The Firemen' (song sung in school); sin...

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Sound Recording, Suffolk

Dunn, Ginette

25 June 1974

Bob Hart, recorded in Snape [?in the collector's home], talks about practising songs; the preservation of songs and the collector's tape recordings; old songs - music hall, folk; fishing - herring, gr...

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Sound Recording, Suffolk

Dunn, Ginette

September 1974

Ruby Ling, recorded at home in Snape on the 9 September 1974; sings 'Granny's Song at Twilight', 'You Forgot to Remember', 'When You Played the Organ', 'When You're Feeling Blue', 'By the Waterfall', ...

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Sound Recording, Suffolk

Dunn, Ginette

2 October 1974

Basil Bennett, recorded at home in Snape; talks about learning songs whilst in the Army and the Navy - 'I'm in Love with Two Sweethearts' and 'Farewell My Own True Love'; his and other people's repert...

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Sound Recording, Suffolk

Dunn, Ginette

9 September 1974

Bob Hart, recorded at home in Snape, sings 'Eat More Fruit'; talks about Jack Harland and learning 'Bold General Wolfe' from him; sings fragment of 'Up She Went Like a Rocket', also sung by Harland; s...

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Sound Recordings, West Sussex and London

Dunn, Ginette

21 May 1974

George Belton, recorded at home in Birdham; relates biographical details - birthplace in Surrey, schooling, farm work including land work, milking cows and working with horses; childhood memories of g...

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Sound Recording, Suffolk

Dunn, Ginette

10 September 1974

Percy Webb, recorded at home in Tunstall Common; talks about his song repertoire [lists titles]; singing as a child, in church choirs at Hasketon and Bawdsey, at school; pub singing; singing as part o...

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Sound Recording, Suffolk

Dunn, Ginette

19 July 1974

Percy Webb, recorded at home in Tunstall Common; talks about Army life (pay, food) whilst in India; experiences of World War One (where stationed, being shelled/gassed, trenches, leave, Armistice, inj...

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Sound Recordings, Suffolk

Dunn, Ginette

1974

Ruby Ling, recorded at home in Snape on the 11 September 1974; talks about her father working as a tenant farmer on the Wentworth Estate at Aldeburgh; Sunday School treat (tea at the mansion on the es...

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Sound Recording, Suffolk

Dunn, Ginette

11 September 1974

Priscilla Savage, recorded at home in Blaxhall; talks about the village Youth Hostel; her parents and siblings; food, diet and bread baking; own family and children; working in service; childhood in L...

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Sound Recording, Suffolk

Dunn, Ginette

October 1974

Dick Woolnough, recorded at home in Snape during the 30th and 31st of October [woman and small child - ?daughter and grandson - also present]. Sings 'London Apprentice Boy'; comments/conversation; sin...

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Sound Recording, Suffolk

Dunn, Ginette

21 June 1975

James Smith, recorded at home in Snape; talks about the song 'The Cobbler' and the use of props; sings the song, learned/sung in the Crown pub, Snape, around fifty years ago; singing in the Golden Key...

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