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Total number of records: 17

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occupations17
quarries and quarrying17
community life16
nature15
agriculture12
manners and customs12
animals11
education11
culture10
land use9

Top 10: People and organisations

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Tammivaara, Irmeli4
Brooks, Margaret2
Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)2
Haddock, Christopher2
Haddock, Elsie2
Johnson, Myers2
Massarella, Mr2
Stigell, Ossi2
Wakelin, Martyn F2
Applett, Stanley1

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Sound Recordings, Cornwall

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

March 1963

[Collector announcement]; John Galsworthy, recorded at home in Gwinear on the 28 March 1963; answers a selection of questions from the Dieth-Orton dialect survey Questionnaire [various Books]; talks o...

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Sound Recordings, Devon

Stigell, Ossi

1976

Mr. Cordwent of Whitnage [continued from tape LAVC/SRE/A688r] talks about deer hunting/culling on Exmoor; the damage done by deer; the cost of maintaining hunting packs (horses and dogs); involvement ...

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Loughborough Market

Holt, Rachel A

1971

A study of Loughborough Market, comprising ten chapters and nine appendices. The chapters offer general comments on markets, the population of Leicestershire, descriptions of Loughborough Market from ...

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Sound Recordings, Devon

Stigell, Ossi

1976

[Collector announcement]; Mr. Tarr of Holcombe Rogus talks about retirement; his working life for the County Council; slate quarrying; education; farm work as a child; pay at the quarry; working on th...

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Sound Recordings, Cambridgeshire

Tammivaara, Irmeli

July 1975

[Collector announcement]; Claude Gimbert, recorded in Sutton on the 21 July 1975 [continued from tape LAVC/SRE/A675r]; talks about bell ringing techniques, types of bells, learning to ring, methods, c...

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Sound Recordings, Derbyshire

Massarella, Mr

[1960s]

Unidentified female informant, recorded in Charlesworth [by male collector, from Canterbury]; talks about cotton mills and rope works in the area; changes in the village, including new housing and tra...

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Sound Recordings, Cambridgeshire

Tammivaara, Irmeli

July 1975

[Collector announcement]; Harry Lowe, recorded in Stretham on the 24 July 1975; talks about food and the cost of living; working on a carrier's cart to Cambridge; farm labourers' wages; being an appre...

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Sound Recordings, Cornwall

Wakelin, Martyn F; Tilling, Philip M (1938-)

July 1963

Mr. N. Cox, recorded in St Cleer; talks about animal (bullock) husbandry; winter feed; lambing time; moor cattle, allowed to roam free within certain boundaries, owned by commoners who pay for commone...

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Sound Recording, North Yorkshire

Green, Anthony E (1943-)

17 August 1973

Frank Weatherill , recorded at home in Danby; talks about a local storyteller; tall tales; storytelling as a form of amusement; local legends regarding hammer throwing (example from Lastingham); FW's ...

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Sound Recordings, West Yorkshire

Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)

[1960s]

James Gledhill, recorded in Golcar; talks about working in a woollen cloth textile mill - processes, differences between spinning/producing woollen and worsted materials; leisure time, including a des...

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Sound Recordings, Derbyshire

Siporin, Rae Lee

1965

An interview recorded in the farmhouse of William Eliot. Mr. Eliot talks about the village of Derwent before the building of the Howden, Derwent and Ladybower reservoirs; livestock; local farms; the m...

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Sound Recording, North Yorkshire

Brooks, Margaret

16 February 1973

Myers Johnson, recorded [?at home] in Kettlesing [daughter also present]; gives biographical information and talks about the Dacre parish (his birthplace); closure of local chapels; wartime recollecti...

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