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Top 10: Subject

SubjectCount
baked products5
food5
occupations5
quarries and quarrying5
agriculture4
culture4
english language - dialects4
community life3
nature3
animals2

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)4
Brooksbank, Irvine2
Rickards, William Thomas Leonard2
Atkinson, Tom (1880-1880)1
Bill1
Birkett, Tom1
Bob1
Boss1
Cross, William1
Forest, Richard E.1

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Dialect recording in Thornton, Yorkshire

Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)

28 May 1957

[Side 1] Irvine recalls working aged 10 on local farm scaring birds, discusses father's work at quarry, describes how father used to 'reckon up' [= calculate] wages for fellow workers, talks about wag...

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Sound Recordings, Lancashire

Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009); Wright, Peter

[1960-1980]

Compilation of Survey of English Dialects fieldwork recordings (copies) from Lancashire locations 5La1-5 and 5La8-10. The original Stanley Ellis recordings were made March to June 1954, and Peter Wrig...

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Sound Recordings, West Yorkshire and Northumberland

Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)

[1950s]

Irvine Brooksbank, recorded in Thornton in May 1957; talks about the house in which he was born; working as a farm lad scaring birds; the farmer he worked for; local quarries and his father book keepi...

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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;...

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Sound Recordings, Cornwall

Wright, John T

24 November 1958

[Collector announcement]; William Rickards, recorded in Egloshayle; talks about farmwork on leaving school; wages; quarry work after World War One; working with his father in his flour mill, and then ...

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