Skip to main content

Search Special Collections

Suggestions

Did you mean: miners or mimes or monreal or minerva or miners

Results

1 to 3 of 3 records

Total number of records: 3

Top 10: Subject

SubjectCount
community life3
mines and mineral resources3
occupations3
agriculture2
animals2
land use2
manners and customs2
nature2
play2
vehicles2

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Tilling, Philip M (1938-)3
Wakelin, Martyn F2
Barry, Michael V (1935-)1
Bragbrook, Walter1
Braybrook1
Burnett, Bill1
Cox, N.1
Knowles, Renfred1
Lampshire, W.H.1
Orton, Mr Edward Bertram1

Archive Item

Sound Recording, Cornwall

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

July 1963

Renfred Knowles, recorded in St Day ; describes a working day in a [?tin] mine, including charging holes and blasting; being a miner for thirty years; working with boring machines; occupational diseas...

More details


Archive Item

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...

More details


Archive Item

Sound Recordings, Leicestershire, Lincolnshire and Cambridgeshire

Tilling, Philip M (1938-); Barry, Michael V (1935-)

1967

Edward Orton, recorded in Packington (Leicestershire); talks about building a haystack, and thatching it with wheat straw; farmhouses; curing bacon; livestock; selling land for housing; modern farming...

More details