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Total number of records: 87

Top 10: Subject

SubjectCount
culture87
folk music87
english language - dialects73
community life49
occupations49
agriculture37
manners and customs34
persons32
play30
food21

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Dunn, Ginette24
Sullivan, Keith Frederick22
Baldwin, John R11
Hart, Bob (1892-1978)10
Ling, Percy (1906-1982)8
Webb, Percy8
Cooke, Jane A5
Green, Anthony E (1943-)5
Hart, William4
Poacher, Cyril (1910-1999)4

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The Farmer Cider-Maker in North and Central Somerset

Coleman, D N

1966

A thesis concerned with those Somerset cider-makers who combine cider-making with farming activities. The core of the study is the description of processes and equipment based on fieldwork carried out...

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Sound Recordings, Greater Manchester

Waller, Vivien M

1961-1962

Schoolgirls recite/chant/sing skipping rhymes; also ball bouncing and counting-out rhymes, song (some parodies), explanations of (chasing) games (including 'Farmer Farmer') and the circle game 'Sally ...

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Sound Recording, North Yorkshire

Sullivan, Keith Frederick

9 September 1976

[Collector announcement]; Oswald Welford, recorded at home in Roxby; recites some of the words to the song 'Farmer Giles', and sings a fragment; talks about singing and dances; mother's musical abilit...

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Yorkshire Broadsheet

Daniel, Tom

1966

This file contains two copies of a collection of folk songs collected, revised, or rewritten by Tom (Tommy) Daniel of York. The collection includes song texts and notes on the songs. The songs include...

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Sound Recording, West Yorkshire

Cooke, Jane A

23 Nov 1979 - 14 Dec 1979

Schoolgirls recorded at Birdsedge First School, Birdsedge, on the 23 November 1979; discussing the games they have learned from their teacher, and the clapping rhyme 'My Mother Told Me'. [Tr. 5] Chi...

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Sound Recording, North Lincolnshire

Harrop, Peter K

6 January 1978

Pub singing, recorded in the village of Haxey, before the playing of the Haxey Hood game, an inter-village contest held annually between Haxey and Westwoodside, and involving the players' attempt to m...

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Sound Recording, West Yorkshire

Cooke, Jane A

[1979]

Mrs. Jordan, recorded in Birdsedge, talks about her childhood games, played in Crawley, West Sussex. Describes ball games, 'Battle of Waterloo', French skipping (elastics), counting-out rhymes; song; ...

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Sound Recording, North Yorkshire

Attebery, Louie W (1927-); Green, Anthony E (1943-)

26 April 1972

[Tony Green announcement]; Jackie Beresford, recorded at home in Buckden; talk of JB's fiddle; JB tunes up and discusses Bob Pegg and Carol Pegg; plays part of unidentified tune; plays dance tunes 'Bu...

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Survey of English Dialects recording in Eccleston, Lancashire

Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)

Apr 1954

[Side 1] Tom talks about decline of local coal mining industry, comments mechanical coal-cutters too expensive and unsuitable for local pits as roofs too low and 'bracklesome' [= brittle], outlines va...

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Sound Recording, North Yorkshire

Sullivan, Keith Frederick

19 March 1976

Thomas Simpson, recorded at home in Lebberston; sings 'All Jolly Fellows that Follow the Plough', [first line: 'When I was a jolly young ploughboy'], 'Farmer's Boy' and [first line: 'Come with me to t...

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Sound Recording, North Yorkshire

Sullivan, Keith Frederick

8 September 1976

[Collector announcement]; Will White, recorded at home in Ugthorpe; talks about singing; living at the Black Bull pub; pub singing; biographical details; running the pub with his wife; also mixed farm...

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Sound Recording, Berkshire

Baldwin, John R

1967

Dave Blagrove, recorded in Reading; sings [with ?banjo/?ukulele accompaniment] 'Sandy Lane', the Oxford boatmen's songs 'The Ballad of Tom Beechey' and 'Les Morton's Navy'; 'Maggie May', 'Farmer's Boy...

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