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manners and customs1
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history1
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rites and ceremonies1
wealth1
quarries and quarrying1
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Whitwell4
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Sheath, Mr M6
Barry, Michael V (1935-)5
Sheath, Mrs4
Brading, Mr F2
Brading, Mrs2
'Titch'1
Shipway, James1
Bailey, George1
Maynard, George (1900-1900)1
Jim1
Whitwell (Isle of White) Response Book - 39Ha7
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Whitwell (Isle of White) Response Book - 39Ha7

Barry, Michael V (1935-)

11 Apr 1959 - 16 Apr 1959

Response book recording the answers given by informants during the Survey of English Dialect. It includes 9 sections that cover a range of topics relating to work, domestic and social life. Answers ar...

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Survey of English Dialects recording in Whitwell, Isle of Wight

Apr 1959

[Side 1] Mr Sheath compares ploughing and sowing now and in past, discusses reaping by hand, explains practice of setting up mown crops in 'hile' [= sheaves of corn set up in field to dry], discusses ...

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Sound Recordings, Isle of Wight, Wiltshire and Berkshire

Kylstra, Henk E; Barry, Michael V (1935-)

1959-1960

[Collector announcement]; Mr. M. Sheath, recorded in Whitwell (Isle of Wight) in April 1959, by Henk Kylstra; talks about the uses for farm waggons and carts; the decline in the use of horses; ploughi...

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Whitwell (Isle of White) Response Book - 39Ha7
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Notes [Whitwell Response Book]

Barry, Michael V (1935-)

11 Apr 1959 - 16 Apr 1959

Notes section at the rear of the response book. Includes biographical information about the informants. Includes notes on the locality.

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Whitwell (Isle of White) Response Book - 39Ha7
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Book IV: Nature [Whitwell Response Book]

Barry, Michael V (1935-)

11 Apr 1959 - 16 Apr 1959

Words and phrases that answer the questions from the Survey of English Dialect relating to nature.

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Book VI: The Human Body [Whitwell Response Book]

Barry, Michael V (1935-)

11 Apr 1959 - 16 Apr 1959

Words and phrases that answer the questions from the Survey of English Dialect relating to the human body.

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