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Total number of records: 17

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musical instruments17
play17
community life14
culture14
folk music13
occupations12
agriculture11
english language - dialects10
manners and customs9
social life and customs7

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Dunn, Ginette6
Sullivan, Keith Frederick4
Hart, Bob (1892-1978)3
Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)2
Hayes, Raymond (1909-2000)2
Ling, Percy (1906-1982)2
Panheinen, Ossi2
Webb, Percy2
(Rusty)1
Baldwin, John R1

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Sound Recordings, Staffordshire

Buckland, Theresa Jill

08/Sep/1975 - 08/Sep/1975

Douglas Fowell, accompanist to the Abbots Bromley Horn Dance, recorded in Abbots Bromley; plays tunes on the piano accordion: 'Cock of the North', 'The Girl I Left Behind Me' , 'River of Jordan', 'Off...

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Sound Recordings, Lincolnshire

Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009); Tilling, Philip M (1938-); Barry, Michael V (1935-)

[1967-1980]

Compilation of Survey of English Dialects fieldwork recordings (copies) for Lincolnshire locations 10L4-15. The original recordings were made in 1952, 1953, 1960 and 1967. The date when this copy tape...

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Sound Recordings, Devon

Panheinen, Ossi

[1970]

Mr. Layzell of Branscombe, recorded whilst he works in his blacksmith's smithy [machinery noise throughout]; relates the history of the building; working as a smith since 1911; father a smith in the s...

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Sound Recording, North Yorkshire

Sullivan, Keith Frederick

29 March 1976

[Collector announcement]; David Hartley, recorded at home in Castleton[wife also present]; gives biographical details; talks about his wife; father's tenant farm; exemption from service during World W...

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Sound Recordings, [Dorset]

Panheinen, Ossi

[1970]

Mr. Paull [location not given] relates his experiences of fighting in World War One; the Somme in 1917 and being wounded; convalescence in Wyke Regis; Paschendale Ridge; the Somme; working life after ...

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Sound Recordings, Essex and Suffolk

Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)

July 1959

William Sibley, recorded in Stisted; talks about his time as a bellringer; farm work as a boy, trimming thatch, stock boy; wages and working days; work with horses and steam plough; work on the farm a...

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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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Sound Recordings, Suffolk

Dunn, Ginette

8 September 1974

Bob Hart and Lenny Townsend in conversation in the Horse and Groom pub, Wrentham [tape box reads Horse and Plough]. General conversation/banter, with reference to the Ship Inn at Blaxhall, and the col...

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Sound Recording, North Yorkshire

Sullivan, Keith Frederick

1 December 1976

[Collector announcement]; Raymond Hayes, recorded at home in Hutton-le-Hole; sings and plays [ 'All the Darkies are A-Weeping'] on the ukulele, followed by [ 'She's My Sweetheart'], [ 'Wait 'Til the C...

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Sound Recording, Suffolk

Dunn, Ginette

5 October 1974

Bob Hart, recorded at home in Snape, talks about village concerts, the singer Jack Davy, speeches re. the village and songs sung, village organisations, other singers, (step) dancing, village dances, ...

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Sound Recording, Suffolk

Dunn, Ginette

20 July 1974

Bob Hart, Percy Webb, Percy Ling and members of the Norfolk Folk Club singing in the Crown Inn, Snape. Conclusion of session which starts on tape LAVC/SRE/A357r. Jane Southgate sings 'The Unquiet Grav...

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Sound Recordings, Manchester and Shropshire

Dunn, Ginette

April 1974

Fred Jordan, singing at the Bay Horse pub in Manchester on the 26 April 1974; sings 'Farmer's Boy', 'The Vacant Chair' and 'The Old Armchair'. [Tr. 1]. Conclusion of session which starts on tape LAVC/...

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