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Total number of records: 7

Top 10: Subject

SubjectCount
culture7
oral traditions7
persons6
english language - dialects4
folk music3
community life3
play2
holidays2
humor2
occupations2

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Powell, George1
Sanderson, Joe1
Pearson, John1
Palmer, Harry1
Morris, Patricia M1
Spensely?1
Spensley, Walt1
White, John1
Widdowson, John D A (1935-)1
White, Edmund1

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Sound Recordings, Lancashire and North Yorkshire

Cook, Catherine

1970-1971

Mr. Exley, recorded in Colne (Lancashire), talks about his hobby collecting country stories; dialect in country humour; relates stories concerning a vicar and a villager, a farmer and a late farmworke...

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Sound Recording, Leicester

Edge, Christine

1965

Various informants talk of Cat Anna ( Leicester woman regarded as a witch), a secret tunnel used by Lady Jane Grey, Leicester Castle, witch burnings, divination (future husband, sex of unborn baby); C...

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Sound Recordings, West Yorkshire

McCosh, Sandra

[1973-1974]

Eight/nine year old girls and boys, recorded at Our Lady's Primary School in Leeds, talk about learning songs and jokes (sources include the television, comics, family and friends); the appeal of the ...

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Sound Recording, North Yorkshire

Sullivan, Keith Frederick

11 November 1977

Ugthorpe quoits team Quoits Supper, recorded at the Black Bull pub in Ugthorpe; Keith Sullivan sings 'The Dalesman's Litany' [4 of 6 verses]; [unidentified] sings 'Mother Macree'; John Pearson sings '...

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Sound Recording, West Yorkshire

Morris, Patricia M

[September 1981]

Olive Metcalf, recorded at home in the Kirkstall area of Leeds; talks about food shopping for a large family; gardening and vegetable growing; breakfast; dinners (week's menu); offal/meat products; le...

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Sound Recordings, Oxfordshire and Gloucestershire

Baldwin, John R

1966-1967

George Powell, recorded in his home in Wigginton. Conclusion of session which starts on tape LAVC/SRE/A476r. Sings 'Jim the Carter's Lad', 'Beer Beer Glorious Beer' [fragment] and 'Joan's Ale'. Mr. ...

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Sound Recordings, North Yorkshire

Widdowson, John D A (1935-)

[Mid-1960s]

Male, recorded in Filey in 1962 [date when this copy tape made not known]; talks about an incident at sea, and trying to launch a boat; going to sea at thirteen; wages; boat lamps, hand pump on board;...

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