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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; ...
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...
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...
Blagdon (Somerset)
Voitl, Herbert
[1960s]
View looking across playing fields towards the village of Blagdon (Somerset). Survey of English Dialects (SED) locality 31/2.
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 ...
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...
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...
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/?...
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, 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...
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,...
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...