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Archive Item: LAVC/SRE/D/2/D161 Contains digital media

Survey of English Dialects recording in Clun, Shropshire

Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009); Sykes, Donald Richard

Jan 1955

[Side 1] George recalls almost drowning in local pool, remembers anglers frequently coming from Birmingham in past, comments pool now drained, reflects on favourite jobs on farm, incl. 'a-striking out...

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Archive Item: LAVC/SRE/D/2/D087 Contains digital media

Dialect recording in Newbiggin-by-the-Sea, Northumberland. Dialect recording in Wooler, Northumberland

Orton, Harold (1898-1975); Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)

17 Sep 1952

Side 1 recording in Newbiggin-by-the-Sea. Side 2 recording in Wooler.[Side 1] Eleanor, Hunter and Rose talk about about fishing locally, discussion about father leading strike. [Side 2] John tells amu...

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Archive Item: LAVC/SRE/A665r

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...

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Archive Print Item: Cookery A/COM

The complete family-piece: and, country gentleman, and farmer's best guide. In three parts. Part I. containing a... collection of above one thousand well-experienced practical family-receipts ... Part II. containing, I. Full instructions to be observed in hunting, coursing, setting and shooting ... II. Cautions, rules, and directions to be taken and observed in fishing; with the manner of making and preserving of rods, lines, floats, artificial flies, &c. and for chusing and preserving several sorts of curious baits. III. A full ... kalendar of all work necessary to be done in the fruit, flower, and kitchen gardens ... Part III. containing, practical rules, and methods, for the improving of land, and managing a farm in all its branches ... [etc.]

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Archive Print Item: Cookery A/COM

The complete family-piece: and, country gentleman, and farmer's best guide. In three parts. Part I. containing a... collection of above one thousand well-experienced practical family-receipts ... Part II. containing, I. Full instructions to be observed in hunting, coursing, setting and shooting ... II. Cautions, rules, and directions to be taken and observed in fishing; with the manner of making and preserving of rods, lines, floats, artificial flies, &c. and for chusing and preserving several sorts of curious baits. III. A full ... kalendar of all work necessary to be done in the fruit, flower, and kitchen gardens ... Part III. containing, practical rules, and methods, for the improving of land, and managing a farm in all its branches ... [etc.]

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Includes indexes.

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Archive Print Item: Cookery A/COM

The complete family-piece: and, country gentleman, and farmer's best guide. In three parts. Part I. containing a... collection of above one thousand well-experienced practical family-receipts ... Part II. containing, I. Full instructions to be observed in hunting, coursing, setting and shooting ... II. Cautions, rules, and directions to be taken and observed in fishing; with the manner of making and preserving of rods, lines, floats, artificial flies, &c. and for chusing and preserving several sorts of curious baits. III. A full ... kalendar of all work necessary to be done in the fruit, flower, and kitchen gardens ... Part III. containing, practical rules, and methods, for the improving of land, and managing a farm in all its branches ... [etc.]

1737

Includes indexes.

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Archive Print Item: Cookery A/COM

The complete family-piece: and, country gentleman, and farmer's best guide. In three parts. Part I. containing a... collection of above one thousand well-experienced practical family-receipts ... Part II. containing, I. Full instructions to be observed in hunting, coursing, setting and shooting ... II. Cautions, rules, and directions to be taken and observed in fishing; with the manner of making and preserving of rods, lines, floats, artificial flies, &c. and for chusing and preserving several sorts of curious baits. III. A full ... kalendar of all work necessary to be done in the fruit, flower, and kitchen gardens ... Part III. containing, practical rules, and methods, for the improving of land, and managing a farm in all its branches ... [etc.]

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Archive Item: LAVC/SRE/A398r

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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Archive Item: LAVC/SRE/A366r

Sound Recordings, Suffolk

Dunn, Ginette

1974

Ruby Ling, recorded at home in Snape on the 11 September 1974; talks about her father working as a tenant farmer on the Wentworth Estate at Aldeburgh; Sunday School treat (tea at the mansion on the es...

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Archive Item: LAVC/SRE/A344r

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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Archive File: LAVC/FLF/3/7/10

Wooden Industries

1959-1974

This file contains extracts and cuttings on boat-building, hurdle-making and other industries centred on wood, including D. Phillips Birt's article, 'Last Days of the Wooden Boat', extracted from 'Cou...

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Archive Item: LAVC/SRE/A284r

Sound Recordings, South Ayrshire

Czerkawska, Catherine Lucy

December 1973

[Collector announcement]; Mungo Munro , recorded at home in Dunure, talks about his fishing career, 1926-1971; deep sea fishing for herring; line fishing; women baiting lines (with mussels, also sand ...

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