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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...
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...
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, 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...
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...
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;...
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 ...
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 ...
Dry Stone Waller
[1970s]
Copy of a photograph of an elderly male repairing a dry stone wall, at an unidentified location.
Dry Stone Wall
Langhorne, Richard
November 1970
Dry stone wall and landscape at Alston (Cumbria). No. 4 in a series of 5.
Dry Stone Wall
Langhorne, Richard
November 1970
Dry stone wall and landscape at Alston (Cumbria). No. 5 in a series of 5.
Stone Dwelling House
Danaher, K
[1960s]
Stone dwelling house with dry stone wall in front, at High Bradley (North Yorkshire).