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Monmouthshire Response Books
Sykes, Donald Richard; Parry, David (1937-)
1955-1960
Response books, completed in ms. phonetic script, recording the answers of informants from Survey of English Dialects (SED) localities in Monmouthshire to the Dieth-Orton Questionnaire. Responses were...
Sound Recordings, Glamorgan and Monmouthshire
Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009); Parry, David (1937-)
1965
Mrs. Forward, recorded in Cwmavon; talks about her son; the dole and Depression in the late 1920s/early 1930s; family; life in the valley; working at a furnace shovelling coal during World War One; hu...
Sound Recording, Monmouthshire
Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009); Parry, David (1937-)
[1960s]
Mr. Padfield, recorded in Crosskeys [undated]; talks about the local landscape and afforestation; boom time for coal mines during World War One; economic slumps and unemployment, dole and soup kitchen...