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Wright, John T8
Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)3
Wakelin, Martyn F2
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Dudman, Charles Henry1
Edwards, William1
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Sound Recordings, Wiltshire

Wright, John T

August 1957

Ernest Kent, recorded in Netheravon; talks about driving hay waggons in the summer; Michaelmas ploughing with oxen; his father; hoeing and rates of pay; threshing with a flail; rates of pay; gleaned c...

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Sound Recordings, Wiltshire

Wright, John T; Kylstra, Henk E; Orton, Harold (1898-1975)

1960

James Shipway, recorded in Avebury; talks about thatching; the loss of tradespeople in the village; reference to the renovation of a barn in the village [by the National Trust, now the Great Barn]; tr...

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Sound Recordings, Wiltshire

Wright, John T; Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)

1957

Ernest Packer, recorded in Ashton Keynes in July 1957; talks about his first job, driving a farm waggon at the age of ten; stable work harnessing horses; wages; thoughts on modern farming methods (plo...

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Sound Recordings, Devon

Wright, John T

October 1958

[Announcement, ?by Tony Green]; Ernest Smythe, recorded in Parracombe; talks about working life on the railway (as office boy, timekeeper); gangs working on the line, and the difficulty of building it...

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Sound Recording, Devon

Wright, John T

June 1958

Frank Thorne and William Edwards, in conversation in Gittisham; Mr. Thorne talks about farm work, milking, horsemen, father a tenant farmer; [gap, 1 minute]; weeding; haymaking - Mr. Edwards describes...

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Sound Recording, Hampshire

Wright, John T

January 1958

Charles Dudman, recorded in a pub in Hatherden; talks about a shepherding job on leaving school; ?locus beans in sheep feed; work as a garden boy at Clanville Lodge; humorous anecdote re. a visit to [...

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Sound Recordings, Cornwall

Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009); Wakelin, Martyn F; Wright, John T

1958-1963

[Collector announcement]; Francis Lobb, recorded by Stanley Ellis in St Ewe on the 29 March 1963; answers a selection of questions from the Dieth-Orton dialect survey Questionnaire [various Books]; di...

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Sound Recordings, Cornwall

Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009); Wakelin, Martyn F; Wright, John T

1958-1963

[Collector announcement]; William Willey, recorded by Stanley Ellis in Mullion on the 30 March 1963; answers a selection of questions from the Dieth-Orton dialect survey Questionnaire [various Books];...

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