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Total number of records: 6

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culture6
energy industries6
occupations6
english language - dialects4
community life3
language and languages3
buildings2
communication2
cooking2
food2

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Orton, Harold (1898-1975)4
Hodgson, Herbert Raymond1
Upton, Clive S1

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The Dwelling House: Rooms, Fittings, Utilities, Etc.

1969-1979

This file contains items on various aspects of the dwelling house, with a focus on fittings and equipment and domestic utilities. This includes an article by Marie Hartley and Joan Ingilby on farm kit...

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Mines, Mining, and Mining Communities

[1955-1979]

This file largely consists of photocopied articles and magazine and newspaper extracts and cuttings, including G. Bernard Wood's article, 'Relics of Rural Coal Mines', on mining remains in Yorkshire, ...

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SED Word Map: Ashes
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SED Word Map: Ashes

Orton, Harold (1898-1975)

[Mid-1960s-mid-1970s]

Experimental printed word map, completed in ms., for SED question V.4.5, Ashes, mapping responses Ass, Ess, Ashes, Eshes and Ash. The map was compiled by Harold Orton and J. M., is dated January 1964 ...

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SED Word Map: Ashes
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SED Word Map: Ashes

Orton, Harold (1898-1975)

[1960s-mid-1970s]

Experimental printed word map, completed in ms., for SED question V.4.5, Ashes, mapping responses Ass, Ess, Ashes, Eshes and Ash. The map is labelled as a draft.

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SED Phonological Map: Coal
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SED Phonological Map: Coal

Orton, Harold (1898-1975)

[Mid-1960s-mid-1970s]

Experimental printed phonological map of the Northern Counties, completed in ms., for SED question IV.4.5, Coal, mapping the various vowel types. The map is headed Survey of English Dialects: Northern...

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Sound Recording, County Durham

Upton, Clive S; Orton, Harold (1898-1975)

5 June 1974

[Announcement: Clive Upton]; Herbert Hodgson, recorded at home in Bishop Middleham; discusses with Harold Orton playing football for Bowburn ; attending Byers Green school from the age of five; discus...

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