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The Leeds Wash-Houses: A Study of Urban Folk Life
Wilson, Janet Elizabeth
1976
A study of wash-houses in Leeds, based on information gathered from official handbooks and annual reports, newspaper articles and interviews with women using wash-houses (some also conducted in their ...
Survey of English Dialects recording in Melsonby, Yorkshire
Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)
01 Nov 1952
[Side 1] Jack tells amusing anecdote about winning sweepstake to guess size of two prize turnips: wet Friday afternoon at quarry so headed 'hame' [= home], changed into night 'claes' [= clothes] and s...
Dialect recording in Belford, Northumberland
Orton, Harold (1898-1975)
21 Jul 1938
[Side 1] John and Dod reflect on changes at Post Office since starting work in 1904; anecdote about collecting Bamburgh Post, dark and 'teeming' [= raining heavily], lost oil lamp and cycled into 'muc...
Sound Recording, West Yorkshire
Morris, Patricia M
October 1981
Dorothy Ibbotson, recorded at home in the Kirkstall area of Leeds; sings 'The Warrior's Little Boy' (learned from her grandmother), and talks about her attempts to trace the song's origins; gives biog...
Sound Recordings, Derbyshire
Massarella, Mr
[1960s]
Unidentified female informant, recorded in Charlesworth [by male collector, from Canterbury]; talks about cotton mills and rope works in the area; changes in the village, including new housing and tra...
Stone Building (Bay Horse Inn)
Brunk, Wille
[1967]
Gable end of an old stone building/dwelling house. A note on the sleeve in which this photograph was originally enclosed suggests that it may be the Bay Horse Inn at Great Broughton (North Yorkshire),...
Sound Recordings, West Yorkshire and Essex
Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009); Berntsen, Howard N
[1950s-1960s]
Irvine Brooksbank, recorded in Thornton in May 1957; talks about Thornton village; anecdotes re. local people; quarryworkers (including his father); family's connection with the village; family nickna...
Sound Recordings, Cambridgeshire
Tammivaara, Irmeli
July 1975
[Collector announcement]; George Green, recorded in Haddenham on the 28 July 1975. A second male is also present, who asks some questions and provides general information. Talk of a local tale teller;...
Sound Recordings, Cambridgeshire
Tammivaara, Irmeli
July 1975
[Collector announcement]; Christopher Haddock [ Albert Haddock's brother] and Elsie Haddock, recorded at Sutton Gault on the 22 July 1975; talk about wild mushrooms and mushroom picking; mushroom ketc...
Sound Recordings, Isle of Wight, Wiltshire and Berkshire
Kylstra, Henk E; Barry, Michael V (1935-)
1959-1960
[Collector announcement]; Mr. M. Sheath, recorded in Whitwell (Isle of Wight) in April 1959, by Henk Kylstra; talks about the uses for farm waggons and carts; the decline in the use of horses; ploughi...