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Total number of records: 9

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occupations9
textile industry9
well-being9
health8
community life7
manners and customs7
persons6
clothing and dress5
culture5
social life and customs5

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Upton, Clive S2
Aldous, Leonard1
Bryon, Fiona1
Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)1
Goddard, Mr1
Houck, Charles L1
Jay, Catharine1
Mckelvie, Donald1
Metcalf, Olive1
Moorhouse, Annie1

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Sound Recording, West Yorkshire

Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)

1958

George Moorhouse and Annie Moorhouse, recorded in Windhill; talk about houses and housing; animal keeping; upbringings; [textile] mill work; vandalism and modern children; anecdotes about various loca...

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Sound Recording, Shropshire

Upton, Clive S

[Mid-1970s]

John Whittall [recorded in a butcher's shop in Shrewsbury] gives answers to the collector's questionnaire concerning language and terminology associated with the butchering trade. Questions relate to ...

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Sound Recordings, [West Yorkshire]

McKelvie, Donald

[1960-1963]

Male informant [location not known] talks about the preparation, valuation and sale of sheepskins at a hide and skin market; the preparation of skin by fellmongers; explains the process of separating ...

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Sound Recordings, [West Yorkshire]

Bryon, Fiona

10 Jun 1980 - 15 Dec 1980

Jim Roche [continued from tape LAVC/SRE/A087] talks about his Trade Union involvement as a Shop Steward in the Leeds clothing industry: industrial and social problems of members; church involvement in...

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Sound Recordings, West Yorkshire

Houck, Charles L

[Mid 1960s-1970s]

Male and female informant responses to a questionnaire used by the collector as part of his sociolinguistic inquiry in Leeds. For the purposes of data collection, the city was divided into a number of...

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Sound Recording, West Yorkshire

Morris, Patricia M

[September 1981]

Olive Metcalf, recorded at home in the Kirkstall area of Leeds; gives biographical details (born in the Bramley area of Leeds); recollections of baptism as a child; family; other Bramley families; Bra...

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Sound Recordings, Suffolk

Pasanen, Leena

August 1971

[Collector announcement]; Mr. Goddard, recorded at home in Helmingham on the 13 August 1971; talks about his experience of World War One in France (1914-1916); joining an Indian division attached to a...

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Sound Recording, Greater Manchester

Upton, Clive S

[Mid-1970s]

[Collector announcement]; Wilf Morgan, butcher, recorded in Mossley [interview starts mid conversation]; talks about his experiences as a butcher; boning a piece of beef and cuts of beef; meat prices ...

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Current Superstitions Television Script

Jay, Catharine

[1970s]

This file contains a transcript of television recordings made for a programme on contemporary popular superstitions and beliefs. The main part of the transcript is typed, and consists of eight rolls o...

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