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Farmhouse Cheshire Cheese
Boast, Christine
1967
A study of cheese-making in Cheshire, comprising chapters on cheese and English cheese-making (general introduction), cheese-making in Cheshire, folklore connected with cheese-making, Cheshire cheese-...
Sound Recording, [Location not given]
Upton, Clive S
[Mid-1970s]
Collector's father talks about the names given to people involved in the butchering and meat trade; and explains the butchers' use of back slang (a form of communication between butchers and their sta...
Sound Recording, [Location not given]
Upton, Clive S
[Mid-1970s]
Male informant [continued from tape LAVC/SRE/A542r] relates terminology associated with meat curing, the contamination of meat and the types of pest, vehicles used by butchers/meat traders, the names ...
Sound Recording, Staffordshire
Upton, Clive S
[Mid-1970s]
Ivy Simmons/? Ivy Simmonds, recorded with her husband [?at home in Tamworth]. Conclusion of interview which starts on tape LAVC/SRE/A545r, concerning the language of the meat trade. Informant gives th...
Sound Recording, West Midlands
Upton, Clive S
[Mid-1970s]
Brian Hartshorne, a butcher recorded in Wolverhampton [continued from tapes LAVC/SRE/A716r and LAVC/SRE/A717r]; talks about butchers' back slang (for animal names/meat cuts and other terms); explains ...
The Language of the Meat Trade: A Survey of Terms Used by a Selected Sample of Butchers in the United Kingdom
Upton, Clive Stanley
1977
Ph.D. thesis containing seven chapters and three appendices, presenting the findings of an enquiry into the technical lexicon of the meat trade of the United Kingdom which was carried out between 1973...
Sound Recording, Staffordshire
Upton, Clive S
[Mid-1970s]
[Collector announcement]; Charles Brown, recorded in Stoke-on-Trent; gives answers to the collector's questionnaire concerning language and terminology associated with the butchering trade. Questions ...
The Oral History and Traditions of the Lancashire Textile Workers
Taylor, Monica
1972
A study of some features of working, domestic and recreational life in the cotton town of Haslingden in Lancashire, in the early part of the twentieth century. The description of such aspects is based...
Textiles
1960-1981
This file contains items on textile industries, including a photocopy of Arthur J. Saundry's article on the tucking mill, from an issue of 'Old Cornwall' (1960); a typed letter and notes, from Fred Br...
Sound Recordings, Stockton-on-Tees
Schrut, Judith Lynne
23 January 1977
Margaret Postgate, Trevor Postgate and George Robinson (all of Thornaby) discuss domestic crafts - dressmaking, sewing, knitting, quilt-making, embroidery, enamelling, horticulture, bee-keeping. [Tr. ...
Agricultural Equipment, Etc.
1969-1979
This file contains items on aspects of agriculture, with a focus on the kinds of tools, equipment and machinery used in farming. This includes a printed diagram and key to the parts of the old Wolds p...
Sound Recording, [Location not given]
Upton, Clive S
[Mid-1970s]
Male informant describes his career in the Birmingham butchering trade (of forty-nine years, since the age of fourteen); talks about keeping pigs; setting up his butcher's shop; gives answers to the c...