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Survey of English Dialects Contact Prints
Sanderson, Stewart (1924-)
1967
Strip of six contact prints, including two photographs of thatched corn stacks in a field near Foulden (including LAVC/PHO/P1037); and four photographs of Harold Orton in the Survey of English Dialect...
Sound Recording, Devon
Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)
April 1963
[Collector announcement]; Thomas Rippen, recorded in Chawleigh; talks about his age; his homes; working with his father, tying corn, at the age of eight; horse-drawn reaping machine; recollections of ...
Sound Recordings, Lincolnshire and Suffolk
Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)
1959-1960
William Brothwell and Florence Greenwood, recorded in Wragby in April 1960; talk about foxes and shooting them; Mr. Brothwell's farming career; setting a field for ploughing; livestock; thatching and ...
The Living Dialect of the Village of Wheathampstead, Hertfordshire
Haslam, Marie
1954
A study of the dialect spoken in the Hertfordshire village of Wheathampstead. An introduction to the village is followed by chapters which present information on the informants, a descriptive accoun...
Photographs of Traditional Work Techniques and Implements
[1960s]
The photographs in this file show farming scenes (hay gathering, PC1022, PC1053, PC1060), stone barn and cow shed constructions (PC0268, PC0269, PC0275, PC0277), cheesemaking (PC1519), buttermaking (P...
Horses, Cattle and Draft Animals
1960-1973
This file contains items on livestock, in particular cattle and horses. The focus is largely on the general care and management of cattle and horses, folklore relating to their care, medicine, dialect...
Sound Recordings, Suffolk
Dunn, Ginette
1974
Percy Webb, recorded at home in Tunstall Commonon the 31 October 1974 ; talks about making clay ovens [learned during World War One]; farm work; church choir; family; engagement; being gassed during W...
Sound Recordings, North Yorkshire
Sullivan, Keith Frederick
2 April 1976
Frank Raw, recorded at home in Danby with his wife, talks about the village; the decline of the young population and job opportunities in the Yorkshire Dales; changes in farming methods (mechanisation...
Sound Recordings, North Yorkshire
[Mid-1960s]
Male, recorded in Filey in 1962 [date when this copy tape made not known]; talks about being employed as a veterinary's groom; talks about working hours, and relates a number of anecdotes; talks about...
Sound Recordings, Kent
Barry, Michael V (1935-)
1958
[Collector announcement]; Frank Osbourne, recorded in Goudhurst in November 1958; talks about his working hours on the farm/land with horses; his agricultural labourer's wage of fourteen shillings a w...
Exhibition Photographs and Related Papers
[1960s-1970s]
The photographs in this file have been mounted in groups according to particular subjects. Thus, there are two sheets of eight prints showing the construction and use of a hay creel (including duplica...
Sound Recordings, North Yorkshire and East Riding of Yorkshire
Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)
[1960-1980]
Compilation of Survey of English Dialects fieldwork recordings (copies) for Yorkshire locations 6Y9, 11, 13-17, 19-20. The original recordings were made by Stanley Ellis in 1952, 1953 and 1955. The da...