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Survey of English Dialects recording in Swettenham, Cheshire
Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)
Oct 1957
[Side 1] Wilf tells anecdote about stonemason visiting mill and breaking chisel trying to carve initials in millstone, recalls millstream flooding in 1954, describes difference between milling oats an...
Scutching Mill
September 1966
Scutching mill (flax mill) at the Ulster Folk Museum (now Ulster Folk and Transport Museum), Cultra (County Down). The mill is stone-built with a thatched roof.
Abbeydale Works, Sheffield
[1960s]
Board-mounted photograph of the yard and buildings at Abbeydale Works, Sheffield (South Yorkshire), an scythe-works dating from the 18th century.
Scutching Mill Cottage
September 1966
Scutching mill (flax mill) at the Ulster Folk Museum (now Ulster Folk and Transport Museum), Cultra (County Down). The mill is stone-built with a thatched roof. The mill's waterwheel can be seen in th...
Sound Recordings, Suffolk
Pasanen, Leena
August 1971
[Collector announcement]; Stanley Applett, a retired butcher, recorded in his home in Framsdenon the 3 August 1971; talks about his working life as a butcher; his apprenticeship and wages; joining the...
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;...
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 ...