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Total number of records: 5

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culture5
manners and customs5
occupations5
retail trade5
social life and customs5
community life4
home4
buildings3
food3
holidays3

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People and organisationsCount
Bonham-Carter, Victor1
Cardus, Stella1
Garton, J. A.1
Metcalf, Olive1
Morris, Patricia M1
Parker, Gladys1
Parker, Mr1
Read, John (1884-1963)1
Starkey, Helen1

Archive File

Courtship and Marriage; Death and Funerals

1962-1980

This file contains items on marriage customs, death and funeral customs and beliefs, and ghosts. This includes ms. and typed correspondence between R. W. Crosland and Tony Green on the custom of biddi...

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Sound Recordings, West Yorkshire

Starkey, Helen

28 Sep 1976 - 29 Sep 1979

Foodways: informants [ Gladys Parker and her husband], recorded in Brighouse, talk about beer/wine making; Sowerby Bridge Dock Pudding; Christmas food - preparation, ingredients for Christmas meal; Ea...

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Sound Recording, West Yorkshire

Morris, Patricia M

[September 1981]

Olive Metcalf, recorded at home in the Kirkstall area of Leeds; talks about food shopping for a large family; gardening and vegetable growing; breakfast; dinners (week's menu); offal/meat products; le...

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Sound Recording, Devon

Read, John (1884-1963)

8 July 1958

[John Read announcement]; John Read, recorded at the home of his friend, Victor Bonham-Carter, in East Anstey, giving his recollections of country life and the dialect in south-eastern Somerset. Talks...

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Trade - General

1964-1976

This file contains items relating to aspects of trading, including a typed paper by Ted Spiegel on Handslag, or striking a bargain, by farmers ([2] leaves); a typed extract listing bad luck beliefs in...

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