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British Broadcasting Corporation1
Czerkawska, Catherine Lucy1
Dunn, Ginette1
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Metcalf, Olive1
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Panheinen, Ossi1
Pickering, Michael J1
Easter Witch
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Easter Witch

April 1965

Young boy dressed up as an Easter Witch, Vastra Bon (Varmlands Lan, Sweden). His costume consists of a head scarf, brightly patterned apron, and boots. Many Swedish children dress up as witches on E...

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Easter Witch
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Easter Witch

April 1965

Young girl dressed up as an Easter Witch, Hög (Varmlands Lan, Sweden). Her costume consists of a head scarf, skirt and apron, boots, yellow embroidered shawl, and a basket. Many Swedish children dr...

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Sound Recordings, Oxfordshire

Pickering, Michael J

September/October 1973

Wilf Walton [daughter also present], recorded in Adderbury; recites texts of a number of unidentified poems/monologues and songs; daughter talks about her father acting in local productions of 'The Mi...

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Sound Recording, North Yorkshire

[Mid-1960s]

Male, recorded in Filey in April 1962 [continued from tape LAVC/SRE/A559r]. [Date when this copy tape made not known.]. Talks about language and dialect; anecdotes re. old local people; the herring fl...

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Sound Recording, Suffolk

Dunn, Ginette

12 September 1974

Horace White, recorded at home in Spexhall; talks about the village pub; the Suffolk feudal system; World War One; working life, including fishing in Fraserburgh (Aberdeenshire), local council in Suff...

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Sound Recording, West Yorkshire

Morris, Patricia M

[September 1981]

Olive Metcalf, recorded at home in the Kirkstall area of Leeds; gives biographical details (born in the Bramley area of Leeds); recollections of baptism as a child; family; other Bramley families; Bra...

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Sound Recordings, Devon

Panheinen, Ossi

[1970]

Mr. Woollacott [location not known] describes the process of making cider - equipment, barrelling and fermenting; strength of cider; the barrels used; difference between beer and ale; provision of cid...

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Sound Recordings, Oxfordshire

Harrop, Peter K

29 May 1978

Bampton Morris Dancersdancing outside in Bampton, with musical accompaniment on an accordion and fiddle. ?Recorded at a gala/fete event - crowd noise and public address announcement is audible. [Tr. 9...

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Sound Recording

British Broadcasting Corporation

[1960s/1970s]

George Ewart Evans presents a radio programme entitled 'Horsepower and Magic' [BBC Home Service 1964-09-17 20:30], which includes horsemen from East Anglia and Scotland talking about the folklore and ...

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Sound Recording, South Ayrshire

Czerkawska, Catherine Lucy

23 December 1973

Rob Gibson, recorded at home in Dunure, talks about his fishing career and the changes observed in the fishing industry; mussel beds; mussel baits and baiting of fishing lines, tools used; fishing boa...

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