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Jokes, Anecdotes, Etc.
1979-1980
This file contains an ms. collection of jokes made by Institute of Dialect and Folk Life Studies (IDFLS) undergraduate student Kathryn Dearden at Christmas, 1979; and mounted newspaper cuttings from t...
West Midlands Responses: Book VI, Part 13
[1960s]
Collated responses from the West Midland counties for Survey of English Dialects (SED) questions from Book VI, Part 13. Includes questions VI.13.11 Drunk/Drunken - VI.13.20 Naked.
Ropemaking: Winding Warp onto the Loom
Kissling, Werner (1895-1988)
June 1962
Ropemaker, Mr. T. G. Outhwaite , winding cotton warp onto the beam of a loom and threading it through the eals and reed, at his workshop in Hawes ( Wensleydale). Mounted on Photo File card with LAVC/P...
Ropemaking: Winding Warp onto the Loom
Kissling, Werner (1895-1988)
June 1962
Ropemaker, Mr. T. G. Outhwaite , winding cotton warp onto the beam of a loom and threading it through the eals and reed, at his workshop in Hawes ( Wensleydale). Mounted on Photo File card with LAVC/P...
Ropemaking: Winding Warp onto the Loom
Kissling, Werner (1895-1988)
June 1962
Ropemaker, Mr. T. G. Outhwaite , winding cotton warp onto the beam of a loom and threading it through the eals and reed, at his workshop, Hawes ( Wensleydale). Mounted on Photo File card with LAVC/PHO...
Sports and Athletic Games
1961-1974
This file contains items relating to sports and games of athletic ability, skill, strength and endurance. This includes a copy of 'The Ancient Haxey Hood Game (An Ancestor of Football?)', by J. W. ff....
Sound Recordings, [West Yorkshire]
Green, Anthony E (1943-)
1964-1966
Unedited Field Master tape. Male sings [4 unidentified, one a fragment]. [Tr. 6] Female sings [2 unidentified]. [Tr. 7] Singers [?recorded in a pub]. Male sings 'Don't Go Down the Mine Dad' [par...
Sound Recordings, Yorkshire
Green, Anthony E (1943-)
[1975]
Compilation of field recordings (copy extracts) made by Tony Green and others (including students of the Institute of Dialect and Folk Life Studies), and possibly used by him in a session, Interviewin...
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, Lancashire
Taylor, Monica
[1970-1972]
Female informant [possibly the collector's mother], recorded in Haslingden ; talks about and recites a poem with the first line, At number one Bolton yard; sings 'Where oh where is my Norah?' [first l...