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Sound Recording, North Yorkshire
Sullivan, Keith Frederick
29 November 1976
[Collector announcement]; Jacky Gallon, recorded at home in Ugthorpe; talks about farm work; relations in the village; the Black Bull pub; previous Friday's quoits club social - singing and songs, rep...
Sound Recording, North Yorkshire
Sullivan, Keith Frederick
9 September 1976
[Collector announcement]; Jacky Gallon, recorded at home in Ugthorpe; talks about his retirement; farm work from the age of fourteen; changes in farming methods, mechanisation; Hiring Fairs; pay; Mart...
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 Recordings, Berkshire
Barry, Michael V (1935-)
March 1959
[Collector announcement]; Mr. Stiff, recorded in Swallowfield; makes reference to working at the residence of the Duke of Wellington, at Farley Hill; talks of his interest in the kitchen there and its...
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...
Sound Recordings, Devon
Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009); Wakelin, Martyn F
1 April 1963
[Collector announcement]; Thomas Wright, recorded at home in South Zeal; talks about ploughing with horses from the age of twelve; transporting people and other loads by horse and cart; wages; wrestli...
Sound Recording, [West Yorkshire]
Bryon, Fiona
14 January 1981
Leslie Rosen talks about the 1970 textile strike in Leeds, and his involvement; describes background to the strike (high rate of work for low pay, disparity in male/female pay rises) and knock-on effe...
Sound Recording, North Yorkshire
Sullivan, Keith Frederick
18 March 1976
[Collector announcement]; Thomas Simpson, recorded at home in Lebberston; sings 'Since I've Had a Row with the Wife', and 'My Grandfather's Clock' [parody]; singing in pubs as a teenager; sings [unide...
Sound Recording, North Yorkshire
Sullivan, Keith Frederick
8 September 1976
[Collector announcement]; Will White, recorded at home in Ugthorpe; talks about singing; living at the Black Bull pub; pub singing; biographical details; running the pub with his wife; also mixed farm...
Sound Recordings, Wiltshire
Wright, John T
August 1957
Ernest Kent, recorded in Netheravon; talks about driving hay waggons in the summer; Michaelmas ploughing with oxen; his father; hoeing and rates of pay; threshing with a flail; rates of pay; gleaned c...
Sound Recording, British Columbia (Canada)
Smith, Peter
7 January 1977
Lindsay Carter, recorded in New Denver [continued from tape LAVC/SRE/A865]; talks about working in a silver mine in Sandon, 4000 feet below ground; describes the mine, mining machinery, the placing of...
Sound Recordings, Yorkshire
Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)
[1960s]
Mr. Fisher of Thornhill, recorded in 1962; talks about working in a coal mine - hours of work, wages, scale picking (as a youngster); pushing tubs underground; describes the layout underground and the...