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Sound Recordings, Suffolk
Mackay, Donald
July-August 1970
Percy Webb, singing and talking at his home in Tunstall; talk of Suffolk Country Bands; learning songs from his father; pub singing. Recorded 30 July 1970. [Tr. 2] Chris Morley playing the melodeon ...
Loughborough Market
Holt, Rachel A
1971
A study of Loughborough Market, comprising ten chapters and nine appendices. The chapters offer general comments on markets, the population of Leicestershire, descriptions of Loughborough Market from ...
Farming
1964-1970
Includes typed reminiscences ([6] leaves) of Councillor Edmund of Driffield, as told to John Berger and noted by E. Dawson (Agricultural Economics Section, University of Leeds), on life on a Wolds far...
Farm Buildings
1954-1979
This file contains items on farmhouses and other buildings traditionally found on working farms. The larger part of the file includes items from the period 1965-1979; cuttings and articles extracted f...
The Greenwood Manuscript
Greenwood, Harry
[1970s]
This file contains a photocopy of a manuscript compiled by Harry Greenwood of Heptonstall, West Yorkshire, being memoirs of local life and traditions prior to World War Two. The manuscript appears to ...
Migrant Hop-Pickers in Kent
Kemp, P K
1970
A dissertation in seven sections, covering hop-picking in Kent from the end of the nineteenth century to 1970. The first section gives a description of the hop and its distribution and uses, putting i...
Hops and Hop-Picking
[ca. late 1960s]
This file contains items collected for P. K. Kemp's undergraduate dissertation on migrant hop-pickers in Kent, submitted to the Institute of Dialect and Folk Life Studies in 1970. The includes a photo...
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...
Sheep, Geese, Bees and Dogs
1957-1973
This file contains items relating largely to the care and management of sheep, but also items on geese, bees and dogs. This includes a typed copy of a letter on sheepshearing in Cumberland, from 'Will...
Agricultural Equipment, Etc.
1969-1979
This file contains items on aspects of agriculture, with a focus on the kinds of tools, equipment and machinery used in farming. This includes a printed diagram and key to the parts of the old Wolds p...
Sound Recording, South Yorkshire
Russell, Ian
8 June 1972
Frank Hinchliffe in conversation at his home in Lodge Moor, Sheffield. Talks about farming (threshing, machinery, ploughing) during the 1940s and wartime; sings and discusses fragments of a number of ...
Sheep Washing: Outgang Beck
Kissling, Werner (1895-1988)
June 1965
Sheep washing on Outgang Beck at Thornton Rust ( Wensleydale). A farmer throws a sheep from the stone fold into the washpool.