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A Phonology of the Dialect of Rainow in the County Palatine of Chester
Dwerryhouse, Florence
1956
A study of the dialect spoken in Rainow, Cheshire, based on the written fieldwork recordings made by Peter Wright in 1951, for the Survey of English Dialects.
SED Phonological Map: Thursday
Orton, Harold (1898-1975); North, David J
[Mid-1960s-mid-1970s]
Experimental printed phonological map, completed in ms., for SED question VII.4.3, Thursday, mapping responses with an unstressed vowel. The map is labelled as a draft.
Cumberland Response Books
Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)
1953-1955
Response books, completed in ms. phonetic script, recording the answers of informants from Survey of English Dialects (SED) localities in Cumberland to the Dieth-Orton Questionnaire. Responses were re...
Places and Districts
1961-1978
The items in this sub-subseries relate to the study of particular localities, in particular placenames and their origins. The focus is on specific places in England and Wales.
Sound Recordings, Kent and London
Kemp, P K
September 1969
Bill Selsdon, recorded in Maidstone, describes hop picking in Headcorn (Kent) as a child with his family; accommodation in Hopper Huts; travelling from London (on the Hopping Train); hop picking seaso...
Animals and Birds
1949-1981
This file contains items on folklore and terminology associated with animals and birds. This includes a photocopy of Tom Hey's article on Yorkshire names for wild birds, from the 'Dalesman', volume 40...