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Total number of records: 31
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Sound Recording, Dorset
Panheinen, Ossi
[1970]
Bill Lewis, recorded in Netherbury; talks about farm work; horse husbandry; haymaking; recollections of the village of his childhood; roads; traffic (horses and carts); describes rock breaking with ex...
Sound Recordings, Suffolk
Dunn, Ginette
1974
Margaret Howell, recorded at home in Snape on the 3 October 1974. General conversation covering song sheets, her sons, Christmas carols, remembering a particular song and her health; sings 'On the Ban...
Sound Recordings, [Devon]
Panheinen, Ossi
[1970]
Mr. Collins [location not given] talks about flour milling; flour mill and working conditions; milling machinery and processes; cider; wages and working conditions; wages on leaving school; Christmas;...
Sound Recordings, Dorset
Panheinen, Ossi
[1970]
Mr. Studley of Broadwindsor talks about the history of his family's farm; type of farming; livestock; recollections of farm work when a child; harvest time and the custom of making sweet hay; haymakin...
Sound Recordings, Cambridgeshire
Tammivaara, Irmeli
June 1974
Miriam Cross, recorded at home in Prickwillow on 10 June 1974; talks about her childhood home in the village; parents (farmers); baking using a brick oven; jam making; pig killing; describes the Fen r...
Sound Recordings, Cambridgeshire
Tammivaara, Irmeli
July 1975
[Collector announcement]; Alice Baker, recorded at Pymore on the 17 July 1975 [continued from tape LAVC/SRE/A673r]; talks about March dust storms; floods of 1912 and 1950s; the condition of local (dro...
Sound Recordings, Essex
Berntsen, Howard N
1959-1961
Arthur Wapling, recorded in East Mersea; talks about farming methods; ploughing with horses - describes a stetch, dividing the field, (water) furrows and drainage; modern day farming - compares workin...
Sound Recording, North Yorkshire
Sullivan, Keith Frederick
2 April 1976
[Collector announcement]; Raymond Hayes, recorded at home in Hutton-le-Hole; talks about songwriting, singing and playing at dances in the local school hall; playing the banjo and ukulele; sings and p...
Sound Recordings, Dorset
Panheinen, Ossi
[1970]
Mr. Spiller of Broadwindsor talks about farming; milking cows; hedging and the decline in the numbers of hedgers; farm horses and ploughing; weeding corn; haymaking; women labourers; informant's famil...
Sound Recordings, Cheshire and Derbyshire
Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009); Barry, Michael V (1935-); Siporin, Rae Lee
[1966-1980]
Compilation of Survey of English Dialects fieldwork recordings (copies) for Cheshire locations 7Ch3-6 and Derbyshire 8Db1-2. The original recordings were made in 1955, 1957, 1965 and 1966. The date wh...
Sound Recordings, Cambridgeshire and Essex
Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)
[1961]
Male informant, recorded in Comberton; talks about working on a farm from the age of eleven; his father and his farming; thatchers in the family; informant learning to thatch; describes a day's work; ...
Sound Recordings, Devon
Stigell, Ossi
1976
Mr. Webber of Craze Lowman [continued from tape LAVC/SRE/A691r] talks about travelling to school by horse and trap; road menders and stone breakers; Christmas; ashen faggots (fuel); Harvest Festival; ...