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Total number of records: 31

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SubjectCount
buildings31
community life31
human settlements31
education28
culture25
manners and customs23
social life and customs19
english language - dialects18
occupations18
play15

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Pickering, Michael J6
Green, Anthony E (1943-)3
Sullivan, Keith Frederick3
Dunn, Ginette2
Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)2
Tammivaara, Irmeli2
Walton, Wilf2
Wyatt, Winnie2
Austin, Harry1
Barnes, John1

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Sound Recording, Northumberland

Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)

April 1961

[Announcement: probably recorded by Stanley Ellis in 1961 when he returned to check certain responses.]; Willie Pitt, retired farmworker and waggoner recorded in Embleton; talks about a recent shipwre...

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Staithes

Day, Angela M

1967

A study of Staithes in North Yorkshire, in two sections. The first considers the community, and contains an introduction to the village and its history, and sections on the social pattern (dress, educ...

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John Askham of Wellingborough: The Work of a Local Working-Class Author in the Nineteenth Century

Davies, Patrick J M

1983

A study of the writings of John Askham, shoemaker and author from Wellingborough in Northamptonshire. Askham's prose is discussed in relation to street literature of the beginning of the nineteenth ...

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Sound Recordings, Powys

Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009); Parry, David (1937-)

[1960s]

[Collector announcement (Ellis)]; Mr. ?Richards, recorded outside in Llanafan-fawr [undated]; talks about the electricity supply to the area; fire grates in local houses; peat burning; local dwellings...

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Sound Recording, Suffolk

Dunn, Ginette

11 September 1974

Priscilla Savage, recorded at home in Blaxhall; talks about the village Youth Hostel; her parents and siblings; food, diet and bread baking; own family and children; working in service; childhood in L...

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Written Dialect Tradition in the West Riding of Yorkshire

Harris, Wendy

1973

An examination of song, recitation in verse and prose, and other items created for either public or private performance, appearing in dialect form and gathered from written or printed sources covering...

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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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Sound Recordings, Cambridgeshire

Tammivaara, Irmeli

July 1974

[Collector announcement]; Bertram Bridgement, recorded in Manea on the 3 July 1974; talks about farming and farm jobs pre-mechanisation; dyke/drain digging tools; job as a horseman; showing horses (Sh...

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Sound Recording, Suffolk

Dunn, Ginette

2 July 1975

Ben Ling, recorded at home in Blaxhall; talks about singing when younger, and learning to sing; singing at school, and during his time in the Army (in France, field artillery); farm work with his uncl...

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Sound Recording, West Yorkshire

Green, Anthony E (1943-)

23 November 1971

Mary Judge, recorded in Leeds; talks about her upbringing in the Lancashire village of Overton (1900-1914); community life; scrambling for hot pennies at weddings; wedding parties and the food eaten; ...

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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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School Building
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School Building

[1970s]

View of an old stone school building(?) at an unidentified village in the Yorkshire Dales.

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