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Sound Recording, North Yorkshire
Sullivan, Keith Frederick
27 November 1976
[Collector announcement]; Phil Hales, recorded at home in Ugthorpe; talks about singing at the Quoits Supper; song repertoire; audience; barn dances and songs; musicals; learning songs; favourite song...
The Effect of Tourism on a Highland Culture: A Study of Kilchoan, Ardnamurchan
Fisher, Nora M M
1976
A dissertation comprising five chapters. The first presents a brief history and description of the village of Kilchoan on the Ardnamurchan Peninsula. The second describes the old culture of the villag...
Staithes
Day, Angela M
1967
A study of Staithes in North Yorkshire, in two sections. The first considers the community, and contains an introduction to the village and its history, and sections on the social pattern (dress, educ...
Sound Recording, North Yorkshire
Sullivan, Keith Frederick
27 November 1976
[Collector announcement]; Phil Hales, recorded at home in Ugthorpe; talks about the village of Ugthorpe, and acceptance of him as an outsider; Ugthorpe youth club, and attitude towards young people in...
Fifty Years of Wragby Life
Sutton, Diane
1980
A dissertation which looks at life in the Lincolnshire village of Wragby during the first fifty years of the twentieth century. The information it presents is based on the memories and printed ephemer...
Sound Recording, North Yorkshire
Sullivan, Keith Frederick
28 November 1976
[Collector announcement]; Walt Spensley, Mrs. Spensley and their son Colin Spensley, recorded in their home in Ugthorpe; talk about playing quoits; the Quoits Supper; young quoit players; the singing ...
Sound Recordings, Gloucestershire and Oxfordshire
Baldwin, John R
1969
George Dawes [Dusty Dawes], recorded at home in Meysey Hampton; discusses the chorus to the songs 'Treat My Daughter Kindly' and 'Down in the Fields Where the Buttercups Do Grow'; talks about [?step/?...
Village Hall Stage
[1970s]
The stage in a village or church hall at an unidentified location. A piano sits on the stage at the left hand side.
Your Village
Walton, James
1939
This volume contains articles written by James Walton for the 'Your Village' series of articles published in the 'Halifax Courier and Guardian' (March-June 1939). The series consists of historical acc...
Sound Recording, Staffordshire
Higgs, Judith
July 1972
Miss Speirs, recorded in Stonnall, talks about the local area (principally buildings and rights of way). Reference to Lichfield and Shenstone, local legends and customs and beliefs.
The Decline of the Pit Village: A Study of Burradon, Northumberland
Thompson, Elizabeth Jane
1975
A study of one pit village, Burradon, in Northumberland, its colliery and community. Sections describe working life underground, attitudes to pit life, the role of the pitman's wife, community spirit ...