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community life7
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play5
wealth5
culture5
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Wakelin, Martyn F7
Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)5
Lobb, Francis James2
Lobb, Mrs.2
Weare, James Henry1
Bowhay, Ernest William1
Strick, William Thomas1
Were1
Willey, William Henry1
Wright, Thomas1

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Sound Recordings, Somerset and Devon

Wakelin, Martyn F

1964

Mr. H. Evett , recorded in Brompton Regis; talks about farm work; time started each day; working with horses; hours of work and wages; tools for hedging; also present is a Mr. A. Gibbs, who talks abou...

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Sound Recordings, Cornwall

Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009); Wakelin, Martyn F

29 March 1963

Thomas Stephens, recorded at home in Altarnun; answers a selection of questions, put by Martyn Wakelin, from the Dieth-Orton dialect survey questionnaire; talks with Stanley Ellis about his first job;...

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Sound Recordings, Cornwall

Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009); Wakelin, Martyn F

March 1963

[Collector announcement]; Francis Lobb, recorded in St Ewe on the 29 March 1963; answers a selection of questions from the Dieth-Orton dialect survey Questionnaire [various Books]; discussion of left-...

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Sound Recordings, Cornwall

Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009); Wakelin, Martyn F

March 1963

[Collector announcement]; John Galsworthy, recorded at home in Gwinear on the 28 March 1963; answers a selection of questions from the Dieth-Orton dialect survey Questionnaire [various Books]; talks o...

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Sound Recordings, Devon

Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009); Wakelin, Martyn F

1 April 1963

[Collector announcement]; Thomas Wright, recorded at home in South Zeal; talks about ploughing with horses from the age of twelve; transporting people and other loads by horse and cart; wages; wrestli...

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Sound Recording, Hampshire

Wakelin, Martyn F

1964

Charles Sheppard, recorded in Bishop's Sutton; talks about working with pigs; rook starving [scaring] after the corn sown; scarecrows; service in the Rifle Brigade during World War One, in France; ret...

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Sound Recordings, Cornwall

Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009); Wakelin, Martyn F; Wright, John T

1958-1963

[Collector announcement]; Francis Lobb, recorded by Stanley Ellis in St Ewe on the 29 March 1963; answers a selection of questions from the Dieth-Orton dialect survey Questionnaire [various Books]; di...

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