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Steeple Ashton (Wiltshire)
Voitl, Herbert
[1960s]
View of the main street in Steeple Ashton (Wiltshire), showing dwelling houses (including timber-framed houses) and a public house. Survey of English Dialects (SED) locality 32/5.
Wakeman's House, Ripon
[1960s]
Board-mounted photograph of the upstairs room of the Wakeman's House in Ripon (North Yorkshire). The building is timber-framed, and is believed to have been built during the 16th century. The photogra...
Couple Reading
[1970s]
Copy of a photograph dating to the early-20th century, of a man and woman sitting on wooden chairs in a dwelling house at an unidentified location. The woman has her back to the camera and is reading ...
Sound Recording, Oxfordshire
Pickering, Michael J
25 March 1978
Fanny Hitchman, recorded in Adderbury; sings two songs. The first is a May song, the second is titled 'Dame Crump'. [Tr. 1] Male informant, recorded at home, remembers inhabitants of Adderbury; waln...
Sound Recording, Suffolk
Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)
[1950s]
Male informant, recorded in Kedington; talks about his home, and its previous use as a (cobbler's) shop; changes in the village; increase in population; informant's family; first jobs - stone picking,...
Sound Recordings, Bedfordshire
Shaw, David H
1955-1956
Harry Scott [continued from tape LAVC/SRE/A746r], recorded in Billington; sings 'I Wish I was Single Again'; talks about Fred Henley. [Tr. 1] Fred Henley and his wife, Mrs. Fred Henley, recorded in ...
Sound Recording, Oxfordshire
Pickering, Michael J
September/October 1973
Winnie Wyatt, recorded at home in Adderbury, talks about Janet Blunt's folk song collecting, and people's perceptions of her in Adderbury; musical afternoons/evenings at her house; singing in the loca...
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...