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SED Word Map (Yorkshire): Daddy Long Legs
[Mid 1950s-1960s]
Experimental printed word map of Yorkshire, completed in ms. and with SED localities numbered, for SED question IV.8.9, Daddy Long Legs. The map shows the distribution of responses Daddy Long Legs, To...
Sound Recordings, South Yorkshire
Russell, Ian
23 Apr 1970 - 30 Apr 1970
Frank Hinchliffe and Grace Walton recorded singing and talking at home in the Lodge Moor area of Sheffield. Discussion includes reference to a local legend, and the Sheffield Flood. Second recording c...
Survey of English Dialects recording in Skelton, Yorkshire
Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)
16 Apr 1955
[Side 1] Ronald talks about first jobs on farm, hired by foreman father and worked on several local farms, describes technique for breaking horses in, recalls accidents and injuries incl. occasion whe...
SED Word Map: (Keep) Hens
Orton, Harold (1898-1975)
[Mid 1960s-mid 1970s]
Experimental printed word map for SED question IV.6.2, (Keep) Hens, mapping the responses Chicken, Chickens, and Fowl. The map was compiled by Harold Orton, is dated February 1964, and is labelled as ...
Trade - General
1964-1976
This file contains items relating to aspects of trading, including a typed paper by Ted Spiegel on Handslag, or striking a bargain, by farmers ([2] leaves); a typed extract listing bad luck beliefs in...
Basket, Straw and Rope-Work
1960-1973
This file includes a photocopy of typed notes made by Rodney Cousins on basket-making, collected from H. Summers, basketmaker, Sutton-on-Trent (November 1969) and from Herbert Lloyd Johnes' 'The Baske...