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Brown, George8
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Dialect recording in Newbiggin-by-the-Sea, Northumberland

Orton, Harold (1898-1975); Lenihan, J M A

23 Feb 1939

[Side 1] Mr and Mrs. Brown discuss holidays; George Brown and Mrs. Roe talk about recent day trips. [Side 2] rs. Brown, Mr Brown, George, Mrs. Roe, Hunter, Mrs. Cooper and Maggie demonstrate pronuncia...

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The new Green mountain songster : traditional folk songs of Vermont

Flanders, Helen Hartness (1890-1972); Ballard, Elizabeth Flanders; Brown, George (1901-); Barry, Phillips (1880-1937)

1966

Most of the songs with music (unaccompanied melodies) With facsimiles of t.-p., preface and early verses of the first song in the original Green mountain songster, 1823, from which the editors have ...

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Ebchester Response Book - 3Du2
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Ebchester Response Book - 3Du2

Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)

2 Oct 1953 - 10 Oct 1953

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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Sound Recordings, North Lincolnshire

Haldenby, Cynthia

August 1958

George Caley, recorded in Winterton; talks about his working life and various jobs, including crow man, work in stables, driving a carrier waggon, work with horses on a farm at Searby; his own farm at...

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Sound Recordings, County Durham

Upton, Clive S

May 1974

[Collector announcement]; William Dodds, recorded at home in Ebchester on the 14 May 1974; examines and describes archaeological artefacts, excavated by him during the previous six years from the site...

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Notes [Ebchester Response Book]

Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)

2 Oct 1953 - 10 Oct 1953

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

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Book III: Animals [Ebchester Response Book]

Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)

2 Oct 1953 - 10 Oct 1953

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

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Book IV: Nature [Ebchester Response Book]

Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)

2 Oct 1953 - 10 Oct 1953

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

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