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Sound Recordings, London and Kent
Wetton, Anne Lindsey
July-August 1973
Compilation of field recordings made in Abbey Wood, Charlton, Plumstead and Swanley. Six informants sing a selection of popular love songs, including 'Dolly Gray', 'The Old Rustic Bridge', 'The Rose o...
A Popular Singing Tradition of an Area of South-East London
Wetton, Anne Lindsey
1974
A collection of popular songs recorded in 1973/1974 from informants living in and around the Bexleyheath area of London. Text and (some) tune transcriptions are presented, with comments from the colle...
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...
Sound Recordings, West Yorkshire
Lewis, Cathy Laura
May 1973
The Irish singer, Darach Ó Catháin [DOC], recorded on 7 May 1973 in Leeds; talks about coming to Leeds in 1960; reference to Brendan Behan and Seán Ó Riada [SOR]; singing and first meeting with th...
The Worst Printer Ever. A Study of the Brereton Broadside Ballads Contained in W10 of the Bigger Collection, held by the Central Reference Library, Belfast
Neilands, Colin W
1983
M.A. study of a collection of sixty-six ballads collected by F. J. Bigger, forming part of the F. J. Bigger Collection at Belfast Central Reference Library. Fifty-five of these were printed by Peter B...
Sound Recordings, Ireland
Taylor, Barry Roy
July 1975
Irish dance music and song recordings, featuring fiddle and uillean pipe playing. Compilation of the collector's field recordings, made in Miltown Malbay (County Clare). The fiddle and pipe playing ar...
Sound Recording, West Yorkshire
Lewis, Cathy Laura
20 May 1973
Darach Ó Catháin, recorded in Leeds; talks about his date of birth, the date of the Irish music festival (October 1971) referred to in a previous interview; his acting and play performed in County M...
Sound Recordings, Suffolk
Dunn, Ginette
1975
Percy Webb, recorded at home in Tunstall Common on the 27 June 1975; sings 'The Boy Truly Regrets'; [gap]; 'I Wonder Who's Kissing You Now (Because I Love You)'; [ 'Fiddler's Green']; 'Flanagan's Band...
Sound Recording, North Yorkshire
Sullivan, Keith Frederick
12 December 1976
[Collector announcement] informant, recorded at home in Tranmire; talks about his song repertoire and song sources; sings the chorus of 'Two Little Girls in Blue'; sings 'All Through the Night'; thoug...
Sound Recording, West Yorkshire
Green, Anthony E (1943-)
23 November 1971
Loreto Todd, recorded at the University of Leeds; talks about the organisation of singing and storytelling in Ireland [informant born in Coalisland, ?studying in the School of English at Leeds at the ...