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home36
culture22
english language - dialects18
manners and customs17
community life14
food10
holidays10
nature10
occupations10
house furnishings9

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Orton, Harold (1898-1975)22
Lenihan, J M A6
Tammivaara, Irmeli6
Harris, Susan5
Pattison, Susan5
Goulburn, David3
Haddock, Christopher2
Haddock, Elsie2
Herdman, Madge2
Herdman, William2

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Education - Miscellaneous

1970-1975

This file contains a photocopy of a typed paper listing details of oral history projects in Great Britain and Ireland, compiled by David Lance of the Imperial War Museum (December 1975), 17 pp.; and a...

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Sound Recordings, Cambridgeshire

Tammivaara, Irmeli

July 1975

[Collector announcement]; George Green, recorded in Haddenham on the 28 July 1975. A second male is also present, who asks some questions and provides general information. Talk of a local tale teller;...

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Sound Recordings, Cambridgeshire

Tammivaara, Irmeli

July 1975

[Collector announcement]; Etheldrida Thompson, recorded in Witchford on the 14 July 1975; gives biographical details; employment as a nurse housemaid in Cambridge; parlour maid in Peterborough; [colle...

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Sound Recordings, Cambridgeshire

Tammivaara, Irmeli

July 1975

[Collector announcement]; Wally Hull, recorded at Little Downham on the 15 July 1975 [continued from tape LAVC/SRE/A672r]; talks about winter weather; skating and champion skaters; his work as a postm...

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Sound Recordings, Cambridgeshire

Tammivaara, Irmeli

July 1975

[Collector announcement]; Claude Gimbert, recorded in Sutton on the 21 July 1975 [continued from tape LAVC/SRE/A675r]; talks about bell ringing techniques, types of bells, learning to ring, methods, c...

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Sound Recordings, Cambridgeshire

Tammivaara, Irmeli

July 1975

[Collector announcement]; Harry Lowe, recorded in Stretham on the 24 July 1975; talks about food and the cost of living; working on a carrier's cart to Cambridge; farm labourers' wages; being an appre...

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Sound Recordings, Cambridgeshire

Tammivaara, Irmeli

July 1975

[Collector announcement]; Christopher Haddock [ Albert Haddock's brother] and Elsie Haddock, recorded at Sutton Gault on the 22 July 1975; talk about wild mushrooms and mushroom picking; mushroom ketc...

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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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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, Cheshire

Pattison, Susan

1975

Bernard Hurst, recorded at home in Wincham, talks about his involvement with the Antrobus Soul-Cakers; revival of the gang c. 1947-1948, developed from Antrobus Youth Club; origins of the custom; soul...

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Dialect recording in Rothbury, Northumberland

Orton, Harold (1898-1975)

12 Oct 1938

Charlie recites the tale of a Geordie driving to London and having an accident in heavy traffic, recites description of the local hunt.

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Archive Sub-sub-series

Lists of Forms

Orton, Harold (1898-1975)

[1960s]

This sub-subseries contains papers apparently compiled by Harold Orton in the process of examining and editing Survey of English Dialects (SED) fieldwork data. The files each contain composite ms. wor...

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