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Survey of English Dialects recording in Skelmanthorpe, Yorkshire
Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)
07 Nov 1952
[Side 1] Wilsey talks about religion in past, recalls going to Denby Dale Primitive Methodist Chapel to 'take pledge' [= to conform to rules of temperance movement], describes passionate singing and p...
Sound Recording, Northumberland
Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)
April 1961
[Announcement: probably recorded by Stanley Ellis in 1961 when he returned to check certain responses.]; Willie Pitt, retired farmworker and waggoner recorded in Embleton; talks about a recent shipwre...
Sound Recordings, Devon
Wright, John T
October 1958
[Announcement, ?by Tony Green]; Ernest Smythe, recorded in Parracombe; talks about working life on the railway (as office boy, timekeeper); gangs working on the line, and the difficulty of building it...