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Somerset Response Books
Wright, John T
1955-1956
Response books, completed in ms. phonetic script, recording the answers of informants from Survey of English Dialects (SED) localities in Somerset to the Dieth-Orton Questionnaire. Responses were reco...
Wiltshire Response Books
Wright, John T
1957
Response books, completed in ms. phonetic script, recording the answers of informants from Survey of English Dialects (SED) localities in Wiltshire to the Dieth-Orton Questionnaire. Responses were rec...
Cornwall Response Books
Wright, John T
1958
Response books, completed in ms. phonetic script, recording the answers of informants from Survey of English Dialects (SED) localities in Cornwall to the Dieth-Orton Questionnaire. Responses were reco...
Devon Response Books
Wright, John T
1958
Response books, completed in ms. phonetic script, recording the answers of informants from Survey of English Dialects (SED) localities in Devon to the Dieth-Orton Questionnaire. Responses were recorde...
Dorset Response Books
Wright, John T
1956
Response books, completed in ms. phonetic script, recording the answers of informants from Survey of English Dialects (SED) localities in Dorset to the Dieth-Orton Questionnaire. Responses were record...
Hampshire Response Books
Wright, John T; Wright, Peter; Barry, Michael V (1935-)
1952-1959
Response books, completed in ms. phonetic script, recording the answers of informants from Survey of English Dialects (SED) localities in Hampshire to the Dieth-Orton Questionnaire. Responses were rec...
Sound Recordings, Wiltshire
Wright, John T
August 1957
Ernest Kent, recorded in Netheravon; talks about driving hay waggons in the summer; Michaelmas ploughing with oxen; his father; hoeing and rates of pay; threshing with a flail; rates of pay; gleaned c...
Sound Recordings, Hampshire and Wiltshire
Kylstra, Henk E; Wright, John T
1960-1961
William Blake, recorded in Hambledon by Henk Kylstra; talks about his work as a shepherd during the years 1919-1958; the village of Hambledon past and present; schooling; work as a shepherd boy on lea...
Sound Recordings, Wiltshire and Hampshire
Wright, John T; Kylstra, Henk E
1957-1961
[Announcement by Henk Kylstra]; Ernest Packer, recorded in Ashton Keynes in July 1957, by John Wright; talks about work with horses and waggon, on leaving school aged eleven; agricultural wages; ploug...
Sound Recordings, Wiltshire
Wright, John T; Kylstra, Henk E; Orton, Harold (1898-1975)
1960
Ernest Packer, recorded in Ashton Keynes [continued from tape LAVC/SRE/A796r]; talks about hedging and ditching, related terminology and tools used; his father's speech; the price of beer/ale; a brewe...
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 ...
Sound Recordings, Devon
Wright, John T
October 1958
[Announcement, ?by Tony Green]; Ernest Smythe, recorded in Parracombe; talks about working life on the railway (as office boy, timekeeper); gangs working on the line, and the difficulty of building it...