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Total number of records: 7

Top 10: Subject

SubjectCount
clothing and dress7
persons7
manners and customs6
culture5
occupations5
textile industry5
community life4
english language - dialects4
holidays4
home3

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Bryon, Fiona2
Roche, Gertie2
Roche, Jim2
England, Alan1
England, William1
Goulburn, David1
Hanna, Sam (1903-1996)1
Harris, Susan1
Hodnett, Grey1
Isherwood, Wilfred1

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Stills from The Clogger

Hanna, Sam (1903-1996)

[1960s]

Stills from Sam Hanna's film, 'The Clogger'. Includes title; credits; images of a clogger in his workshop shaping wooden soles, cutting leather using a template, and finishing uppers; images of a comp...

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Sound Recording, Greater Manchester

Upton, Clive S

[Mid-1970s]

[Collector announcement]; Wilf Morgan, butcher, recorded in Mossley [interview starts mid conversation]; talks about his experiences as a butcher; boning a piece of beef and cuts of beef; meat prices ...

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Sound Recording, Cheshire

England, Alan

12 December 1970

William England, recorded at home in Northwich; recollects his involvement in the Cheshire [? Comberbach] soul-caking tradition; talks about soul-caking during World War One and the proceeds going tow...

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Sound Recordings, Cheshire

Pattison, Susan

1975

Wilf Isherwood [David Goulburn also present], recorded in January 1975 at home in Antrobus, talks about soul-caking and how Antrobus acquired the horse's head - taken from the Hatton gang in 1920, fol...

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Sound Recordings, [West Yorkshire]

Bryon, Fiona

10 Jun 1980 - 15 Dec 1980

Jim Roche [continued from tape LAVC/SRE/A087] talks about his Trade Union involvement as a Shop Steward in the Leeds clothing industry: industrial and social problems of members; church involvement in...

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Sound Recordings, Derbyshire

Massarella, Mr

[1960s]

Unidentified female informant, recorded in Charlesworth [by male collector, from Canterbury]; talks about cotton mills and rope works in the area; changes in the village, including new housing and tra...

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Sound Recording, [West Yorkshire]

Bryon, Fiona

10 Dec 1980 - 15 Dec 1980

Jim Roche, recorded in his home, talks about the Leeds clothing industry in the 1920s/30s; starting work at John Baron's; describes contracting out, machinery, processes, hours of work, health (T.B. p...

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