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Total number of records: 11

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culture11
folk music11
english language - dialects5
musical instruments4
play4
community life2
manners and customs2
social life and customs2
communication1
entertainment events1

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Gifford, Terry11
Russell, Ian8
Couldwell, Jack3
Dyson, Mina3
Robinson, Jack3
Dyson, Ernest2
Flannery, Martin2
James, Clifford2
Swindon, Ralph2
Dawson, John1

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Sound Recording, South Yorkshire

Gifford, Terry

5 December 1970

Assembled company and soloist singing carols in the Hare and Hounds pub, Oughtibridge, accompanied on the piano by Jack Robinson. Ralph Swindon sings 'Stannington'. [Tr. 3]. Session concludes on tape ...

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Sound Recording, South Yorkshire

Gifford, Terry

December 1970

Assembled company and soloist singing carols in the Hare and Hounds pub, Oughtibridge, accompanied on the piano by Jack Robinson. Recorded 5 December 1970. Ralph Swindon sings 'The Book'. [Tr. 3; Tr. ...

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Sound Recordings, South Yorkshire

Gifford, Terry; Russell, Ian

1970-1971

Assembled company singing carols in the Hare and Hounds pub, Oughtibridge, accompanied on the piano by Jack Robinson. Recorded 6 December 1970. [Tr. 3]. Conclusion of session which starts on tape LAVC...

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Sound Recording, South Yorkshire

Gifford, Terry

12 December 1970

Assembled company singing carols in the Traveller's Rest pub, Oughtibridge, accompanied on the piano by John Dawson. All sing 'Good News' and 'Star of Bethlehem'. Bill Needham sings 'Mistletoe Bough'.

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Sound Recordings, South Yorkshire

Gifford, Terry; Russell, Ian

1970-1971

Assembled company singing carols and popular songs in the Blue Ball pub, Wharncliffe Side , on the 12 December 1970. [Tr. 2]. Unidentified female [from Royston] singing the carol 'Good News'. The lo...

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Sound Recording, South Yorkshire

Russell, Ian; Gifford, Terry

December 1971

Jack Couldwell, interviewed in his own home in Worrallby Terry Gifford. Describes Christmas carol singing in Worrall, the route followed in Sheffield; part singing, piano accompaniment (symphonies) an...

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Sound Recording, South Yorkshire

Russell, Ian; Gifford, Terry

December 1971

Jack Couldwell, interviewed in his own home in Worrallby Terry Gifford. Talks about his grandfather and the Big Set (Christmas carol band), and describes the instruments played, route taken, houses vi...

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Sound Recording, South Yorkshire

Russell, Ian; Gifford, Terry

December 1971

Martin Flannery, interviewed in his own home in Sheffield by Terry Gifford. Describes his personal involvement in the local carolling tradition, and singing as a youngster in the Stannington area of S...

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Sound Recording, South Yorkshire

Russell, Ian; Gifford, Terry

December 1971

Ernest Dyson and his wife Mina Dyson, recorded in their home in Stannington, Sheffield. Discussion of local carols in Sheffield - names of carols and localities to which they refer; Stannington brass ...

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Sound Recording, South Yorkshire

Russell, Ian; Gifford, Terry

December 1971

Ernest Dyson and his wife Mina Dyson, recorded in their home in Stannington, Sheffield. Mina Dyson talks about composing the carols 'Stannington' (plays/sings first verse) and 'Bradfield'; names of ca...

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Sound Recording, South Yorkshire

Russell, Ian; Gifford, Terry

1971

'A People's Carol', produced by Ian Russell and Terry Gifford, and broadcast on BBC Radio Sheffield on 26 December 1971. Combines extracts from field recordings of carol singing in pubs, with spoken c...

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