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Pregnancy and Birth
1964-1976
This file contains items relating to pregnancy and birth customs, and includes a typed paper by Mrs. A. Pennie on baby lore and luck in love (1964), 5 leaves; a photocopy of Audrey Chamberlain's artic...
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...
Sound Recording, Cornwall
Wakelin, Martyn F; Tilling, Philip M (1938-)
July 1963
Harry Welshman, recorded in Duloe; talks about his time in the village; agricultural work and wages; leaving school aged fourteen; father's work as a gamekeeper; Army service during World War One; tak...
Occasional Poetry
[1970-1973]
This file contains ms. notes on verses written following the Lofthouse Colliery disaster and their authors; a printed copy of Ephraim Mugglestone's poem, 'The Tragedy of the Lofthouse Colliery Disaste...
Sound Recording, Glamorgan
Crook, Rosemary
22 February 1980
Ceridwen Thomas offers recollections of her childhood in early twentieth century Treorchy - World War One, housework, gardening; also, childbirth; parental discipline; miners' strikes; Rhondda cake; S...
Sound Recordings, Kent
Barry, Michael V (1935-)
1958-1959
[Collector announcement]; Charles Joiner, recorded in Staple in December 1958; talks about storing apples in earth; first thatching job, aged fifteen/sixteen; describes thatch sewn onto barn roofs; hi...
Sound Recordings, Lancashire
Calvert, Valerie E; Vickers, Emma
April 1961
Emma Vickers of Burscough talks about Burscough Fair; fortune telling with tea leaves and playing cards; good/bad luck - wedding cake, bouquets; Halloween parties at home - games; New Year traditions ...
Sound Recordings, Cornwall
Wright, John T
24 November 1958
[Collector announcement]; William Rickards, recorded in Egloshayle; talks about farmwork on leaving school; wages; quarry work after World War One; working with his father in his flour mill, and then ...
Some Aspects of Folk Life in Whitehaven
Graham, Jacqueline P
1980
A study of folk life in Whitehaven, based on information gathered from the collector's grandparents, visitors to their house and other family members, and covering roughly the seventy year period 1910...
Folklore of Worsley: A Miscellaneous Collection of Tradition and Belief From the Area of Worsley, Salford Metropolitan District
Skinner, Margaret
1975
A study of the folklore of Worsley people, based on oral and printed sources. Interviews were conducted with older residents, and children at a Primary School in Walkden. The study contains a sectio...
Sound Recording, West Yorkshire,
3 February 1981
Ken Sutcliffe, recorded in his home in the Cookridge area of Leeds; talks about papers and books concerning World War Two bombers; occupied territories (Holland); photographs; [collector announcement]...
Sound Recordings, Northumberland
Upton, Clive S
15 May 1974
[Collector announcement]; Mary Moffat, recorded at home in Earsdon; talks about doctors, a new Health Centre and home visits in the past; the village; Chapel; playing the organ; other musicians in the...