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Total number of records: 47

Top 10: Subject

SubjectCount
buildings47
human settlements47
play42
community life39
manners and customs36
culture35
social life and customs26
folk music22
occupations22
english language - dialects20

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Dunn, Ginette6
Liman, Ingemar (1938-)6
Cooke, Jane A4
Pickering, Michael J3
Sullivan, Keith Frederick3
Baldwin, John R2
Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)2
Hales, Phil2
Tammivaara, Irmeli2
'Dusty'1

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Sound Recording, West Yorkshire

Cooke, Jane A

[1979]

Mrs. Jordan, recorded in Birdsedge, talks about her childhood games, played in Crawley, West Sussex. Describes ball games, 'Battle of Waterloo', French skipping (elastics), counting-out rhymes; song; ...

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Accordion Player and Monkey
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Accordion Player and Monkey

[1970s]

Copy of a photograph dating from the late-19th/early-20th century, of a man playing the accordion in the street at an unidentified location. The man has a monkey, which is attached to him by a long le...

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Village Street
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Village Street

[1970s]

Copy of a photograph taken in the early-20th centuryof a village street at an unidentified location. A group of children, boys and girls, play in the street in the foreground; a group of men are gathe...

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Blagdon (Somerset)
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Blagdon (Somerset)

Voitl, Herbert

[1960s]

View looking across playing fields towards the village of Blagdon (Somerset). Survey of English Dialects (SED) locality 31/2.

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Sound Recording, North Yorkshire

Sullivan, Keith Frederick

28 November 1976

[Collector announcement]; Walt Spensley, Mrs. Spensley and their son Colin Spensley, recorded in their home in Ugthorpe; talk about playing quoits; the Quoits Supper; young quoit players; the singing ...

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Sound Recording, Suffolk

Dunn, Ginette

27 June 1975

Wicketts Richardson, recorded at home in Blaxhall; talks about visiting the Ship Inn with his father; his father's fiddle playing; Saturday nights at the Ship; being Master of Ceremonies and calling o...

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Sound Recording, Devon

Read, John (1884-1963)

8 July 1958

[John Read announcement]; John Read, recorded at the home of his friend, Victor Bonham-Carter, in East Anstey, giving his recollections of country life and the dialect in south-eastern Somerset. Talks...

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Sound Recordings, Gloucestershire and Oxfordshire

Baldwin, John R

1969

George Dawes [Dusty Dawes], recorded at home in Meysey Hampton; discusses the chorus to the songs 'Treat My Daughter Kindly' and 'Down in the Fields Where the Buttercups Do Grow'; talks about [?step/?...

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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 Recordings, Oxfordshire, Gloucestershire and Wiltshire

Baldwin, John R

1968-1969

Mrs. D. Brooks and Mr. Coombs [?brother and sister], recorded in Shipton-under-Wychwood in 1968. Mrs. Brooks describes her husband playing a horse game. [Tr. 1] Mr. Coombs sings 'The Old Leather Bri...

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Archive Sub-series

Towns

1968-1979

This subseries, comprising a single file only, contains items relating to aspects of towns and town life. This includes Stella Margetson's article on Victorian pantomime, focussing on London theatres,...

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Sound Recording, North Yorkshire

Sullivan, Keith Frederick

27 November 1976

[Collector announcement]; Phil Hales, recorded at home in Ugthorpe; talks about singing at the Quoits Supper; song repertoire; audience; barn dances and songs; musicals; learning songs; favourite song...

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