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occupations5
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nature4
animals3
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Atkinson, Billy1
Breckons, Tommy1
Harrison, Stephen1
Hutton, Joe (1923-1995)1
Langhorne, Richard1

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Animal Sports: Correspondence

1963-1964

This file contains a typed letter [?from Stewart Sanderson] to Mrs. E. Fieldhouse acknowledging her sending audiotapes on cock-fighting to the Institute of Dialect and Folk Life Studies (IDFLS) (5 Jun...

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Historical Events

1969-1975

This file contains Theo Brown's pamphlet, 'Trojans in the West Country' (St. Peter Port: Toucan Press, 1970), 16 pp.; L. V. Grinsell's pamphlet on the folklore of Stanton Drew (St. Peter Port: Toucan ...

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Needle Supports (Handknitting)
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Needle Supports (Handknitting)

Langhorne, Richard

18 June 1964

Seven carved wooden needle supports from villages in the Eden Vale (Cumbria), including Crosby Garrett, Penrith and Kings Meaburn. The supports form part of the Whitehead Collection at the Castle Muse...

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Sound Recordings, North East England

Harrison, Stephen

1954-1976

With the exception of those made in 1954, it is unclear who made the recordings on this tape. Billy Atkinson (mouth organ) plays hornpipe tunes; Joe Hutton and Tommy Breckons play Northumbrian small-p...

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Winter and Spring Festivals

1965-1980

This file contains items relating to New Year, Valentine's Day and Shrove Tuesday customs. This includes a typed copy of a letter from Clare Elkin to Stewart Sanderson on the custom of painting New Ye...

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Basket, Straw and Rope-Work

1960-1973

This file includes a photocopy of typed notes made by Rodney Cousins on basket-making, collected from H. Summers, basketmaker, Sutton-on-Trent (November 1969) and from Herbert Lloyd Johnes' 'The Baske...

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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...

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