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Barry, Michael V (1935-)14
Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)9
Sullivan, Keith Frederick7
Pickering, Michael J6
Tilling, Philip M (1938-)4
Wright, John T4
Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019)3
Shaw, David H3
Tammivaara, Irmeli3
Wakelin, Martyn F3

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London heritage : the changing style of a city

Jenner, Michael; Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019)

1988

Maps on lining papers. Includes bibliographical references (page 249).

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Sound Recordings, Cambridgeshire and Essex

Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)

[1961]

Male informant, recorded in Comberton; talks about working on a farm from the age of eleven; his father and his farming; thatchers in the family; informant learning to thatch; describes a day's work; ...

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Sound Recording, Oxfordshire

Pickering, Michael J

September/October 1973

Winnie Wyatt, recorded at home in Adderbury, talks about Janet Blunt's folk song collecting, and people's perceptions of her in Adderbury; musical afternoons/evenings at her house; singing in the loca...

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Sound Recording, Redcar and Cleveland

Sullivan, Keith Frederick

8 February 1976

[Collector announcement]; William Hart, recorded at home in Wilton; sings [ 'Mary Ann Malone']; talks about his song repertoire; sings 'The Day I Left Old Ireland', 'Patsy Fagan' and 'Where Did You Ge...

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Sound Recording, Suffolk

Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)

[1950s]

Male informant, recorded in Kedington; talks about his home, and its previous use as a (cobbler's) shop; changes in the village; increase in population; informant's family; first jobs - stone picking,...

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Sound Recording, North Yorkshire

Sullivan, Keith Frederick

2 April 1976

Bill Stomper, recorded at home in Rosedale Abbey; talks about the village, changes and loss of community spirit; harvest suppers and singing; dialect songs; favourite songs; Fred Linley; Arthur Champi...

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Sound Recording, North Yorkshire

Sullivan, Keith Frederick

11 September 1976

[Collector announcement]; Hilda Welford, recorded at home in Tranmire; gives biographical details; talks about Ugthorpe schools; changes in the village [of ?Tranmire]; council houses; family; pub sing...

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Sound Recordings, Dorset

Panheinen, Ossi

[1970]

Mr. Spiller of Broadwindsor talks about farming; milking cows; hedging and the decline in the numbers of hedgers; farm horses and ploughing; weeding corn; haymaking; women labourers; informant's famil...

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Sound Recordings, Essex and West Yorkshire

Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)

[1960s]

Martin Baynes, recorded in Henham (Essex); talks about his working life; jobs on leaving school, scaring birds, riding the chain horse at harvest time; working with horses from the age of 14/15; worki...

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Sound Recording, Hampshire

Wakelin, Martyn F

1964

Charles Sheppard, recorded in Bishop's Sutton; talks about working with pigs; rook starving [scaring] after the corn sown; scarecrows; service in the Rifle Brigade during World War One, in France; ret...

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Sound Recording, Durham

Pickering, Michael J

5 April 1974

Professor Thomas Thacker, recorded at home in Durham; gives his recollections of Janet Bluntin the late 1920s/early 1930s; attitudes of villagers to her and vice versa; her family, folk song collectin...

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Sound Recording, Oxfordshire

Pickering, Michael J

September 1973

Harry Austin, recorded at home in Adderbury, talks about local people listed on an unidentified manuscript; comments on a number of local families, including the Welsh family, the Walton family, Marth...

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