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Total number of records: 148

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SubjectCount
land use148
nature148
occupations148
quarries and quarrying147
handicraft116
culture34
community life31
agriculture30
buildings30
architecture23

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Kissling, Werner (1895-1988)77
Varley, Tom12
Brooks, Margaret5
Danaher, K5
Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)5
Langhorne, Richard5
Brunk, Wille4
Liman, Ingemar (1938-)4
Orton, Harold (1898-1975)4
Tammivaara, Irmeli4

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Sound Recordings, Cornwall

Wakelin, Martyn F; Tilling, Philip M (1938-)

July 1963

Mr. N. Cox, recorded in St Cleer; talks about animal (bullock) husbandry; winter feed; lambing time; moor cattle, allowed to roam free within certain boundaries, owned by commoners who pay for commone...

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Stonework

1969-1979

This file contains items relating to stone industries and related crafts, including a photocopy of the Appendix to Horace Harman's 'Buckinghamshire Dialect' (reprinted Wakefield: S. R. Publishers, 197...

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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...

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Sound Recordings, West Yorkshire

Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)

[1960s]

James Gledhill, recorded in Golcar; talks about working in a woollen cloth textile mill - processes, differences between spinning/producing woollen and worsted materials; leisure time, including a des...

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Sound Recordings, Derbyshire

Siporin, Rae Lee

1965

An interview recorded in the farmhouse of William Eliot. Mr. Eliot talks about the village of Derwent before the building of the Howden, Derwent and Ladybower reservoirs; livestock; local farms; the m...

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Sound Recordings, Cornwall

Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009); Wakelin, Martyn F

29 March 1963

Thomas Stephens, recorded at home in Altarnun; answers a selection of questions, put by Martyn Wakelin, from the Dieth-Orton dialect survey questionnaire; talks with Stanley Ellis about his first job;...

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Sound Recordings, North Yorkshire

Pitkannen, Hannu

[1960s/early 1970s]

[Collector announcement, in which he provides background information on his fieldwork project, the locations visited and informants interviewed; he also comments on the quality of the recordings, the ...

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Sound Recordings, Derbyshire, Cheshire and Nottingamshire

Siporin, Rae Lee

1965

Charles Swindles, recorded in Bamford; introduces himself and his wife and daughters; talks about Bamford; the River Derwent and the Howden Reservoir, Derwent Reservoir and Ladybower Reservoir; local ...

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Dry Stone Waller
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Dry Stone Waller

[1970s]

Copy of a photograph of an elderly male repairing a dry stone wall, at an unidentified location.

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Dry Stone Wall

Langhorne, Richard

November 1970

Dry stone wall and landscape at Alston (Cumbria). No. 4 in a series of 5.

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Dry Stone Wall

Langhorne, Richard

November 1970

Dry stone wall and landscape at Alston (Cumbria). No. 5 in a series of 5.

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Stone Dwelling House
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Stone Dwelling House

Danaher, K

[1960s]

Stone dwelling house with dry stone wall in front, at High Bradley (North Yorkshire).

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