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nature2
play2
sports2
manners and customs2
holidays2
animals2
community life2
entertainment events2
social life and customs1
gardening1

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Turnbull, Jimmy4
Young, John4
Orton, Harold (1898-1975)3
Joyce, Leslie2
Joyce, Andrew2
Pringle, Andy1
Johnson, John (1884-)1
Johnson, Willie1
Lenihan, J M A1
Joyce, Horace1

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Dialect recording in Belford, Northumberland

Lenihan, J M A

19 Jul 1939

[Side 1] John and Willie recall John's prowess as an athlete, description of winning 220 yard sprint at Powderhall. [Side 2] Leslie and Jimmy review local football team's prospects for forthcoming sea...

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Dialect recording in Belford, Northumberland

Orton, Harold (1898-1975)

17 Jul 1938

[Side 1] Discussion of recent horticultural show, express disappointment at judging of vegetable competition, comment that entries should be restricted to produce of own garden; discussion of forthcom...

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Dialect recording in Belford, Northumberland

Orton, Harold (1898-1975)

18 Jul 1939

[Side 1] Jimmy and John discuss plans for Whit Monday outing, picnic of beer and sandwiches at 'Cuddy's Cove' [= St Cuthbert's Cave], express hopes of sighting black-headed gulls. [Side 2] Andrew, Les...

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Dialect recording in Belford, Northumberland

Orton, Harold (1898-1975)

20 Jul 1939

[Side 1] John Johnson, John Young and Jimmy talk about cuckoos, discuss nesting habits, describe hatching of young ones, recall recent visit to cuckoo's nest and seeing petrels nesting on ledges in ol...

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