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Sound Recording, Suffolk
Dunn, Ginette
19 July 1974
Percy Webb, recorded at home in Tunstall Common; talks about Army life (pay, food) whilst in India; experiences of World War One (where stationed, being shelled/gassed, trenches, leave, Armistice, inj...
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...
Sound Recordings, Cambridgeshire
Tammivaara, Irmeli
July 1975
[Collector announcement]; Sidney Dewsbury, recorded in Pymore on 19 July 1975; talks about his working life; local floods in 1937 and 1940; work for river authority; strengthening/building river banks...
Exhibition Programmes and På Gång
Riksutställningar (Sweden)
1968-1985
This file contains printed items issued by the Riksutställningar (Swedish Travelling Exhibitions) organisation. These include a specially designed folder containing Swedish and English guides to the ...
Dialect recording in Rothbury, Northumberland
Orton, Harold (1898-1975)
10 Mar 1939
[Side 1] Florrie recites the story of the little mouse and the old tom cat in Rothbury dialect; Florrie, Billy and Charlie talk about fishing (first few seconds inaudible). [Side 2] Billy and Charlie ...
Miscellaneous Correspondence
Sanderson, Stewart (1924-)
1961-1976
Correspondence between Stewart Sanderson and various correspondents relating to dialect and folklife, covering the period January 1961-February 1963, November 1971, and June-August 1975. This includes...
Sound Recording, Dorset
Panheinen, Ossi
[1970]
Bill Lewis, recorded in Netherbury; talks about farm work; horse husbandry; haymaking; recollections of the village of his childhood; roads; traffic (horses and carts); describes rock breaking with ex...
Sound Recording, Derbyshire
BBC
[1970-1979]
Local BBC Radio broadcast, entitled 'Owd Loscoe' [produced by ?Radio Nottingham, or ?Radio Derby]; [Announcement]; Billy Bellfield, recorded in Holbrook; talks about life at the end of the nineteenth ...
Sound Recording, South Yorkshire
Russell, Ian
7 August 1972
George Hancock recorded in conversation at home, Sheephill Farm, in the Ringinglow area of Sheffield. Mrs. George Hancock also contributes. Talk of (dairy) farming; Penistone and Bakewell markets; alt...
Sound Recording, North Yorkshire
Sullivan, Keith Frederick
29 March 1976
[Collector announcement]; David Hartley, recorded at home in Castleton[wife also present]; gives biographical details; talks about his wife; father's tenant farm; exemption from service during World W...
Sound Recordings, Suffolk
Pasanen, Leena
12 August 1971
[Collector announcement]; Sam Friend, a retired horseman, recorded in his home in Framsden. George Ewart Evans is also present, and prompts occasionally. Mr. Friend talks about working as a farm lad f...
Sound Recordings, [Dorset]
Panheinen, Ossi
[1970]
Mr. Paull [location not given] relates his experiences of fighting in World War One; the Somme in 1917 and being wounded; convalescence in Wyke Regis; Paschendale Ridge; the Somme; working life after ...