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SAILORS - SEA

SANDING -- T WADDELL rec by Seamus Ennis, Knutsford, Cheshire 13/6/51: Sanding floors for weddings, May Day: RPL 18446/ FTX-451 Dialect

SAWING - Caribbean - rec by AL, Dominica June 1962: ROUNDER CD 1724 1999

SCHOOL - England: - Cotswold Characters SAYSDISC SDL-222 1972 - Fred WEDLOCK "Exam Rag" (by Keith Christmas) VTS-2056 1972 - Ray & Archie FISHER TOPIC 12-T-137 1966 (Mc Coll song) - OLDHAM TINKERS: TOPIC 12-TS-206 1971 "In our town" - Johnny HANDLE 12-TS- 270 1975 "Schooldays" - Bernard WRIGLEY: TRANSATLANTIC TRA-327 "The Schoolmaster" (by John Cleese) - Ireland: - Sheila GALLAGHER travelling schoolmasters, Co Donegal: RPL 20150 - Scotland: - Jimmy McBEATH rec by Alan Lomax, Banffsh 1951: FTX-060 - Talk about truancy by Jeannie ROBERTSON: FTX-187 "camping meant freedom from school"

SEA - England: - Harry COX, Yarmouth, Norfolk: FTX-033 - Stan HUGILL: FTX-035 - Bob ROBERTS, bargeman, Ipswich, Suffolk: FTX-047 - Folk in the Fifties: FTX-093 - Suffolk singers: FTX-099 - Sam LARNER, Winterton, Norfolk: FTX-139 - Shanties rec by James M Carpenter 1928: FTX-141-142 - Cmdr HALLIDAY & RASMUSSEN: FTX-205 - Paddy WALSH, Devon: FTX-206 - Stanley SLADE, Bristol: FTX-207 - Bob ROBERTS: FTX-208 - Graeme MILES (comp): FTX-223 - Steve BENBOW: FTX-292 - Orkney: FTX-389 - "Storm at Sea": FTX-512 - Sussex & Kent: FTX-428 - "Warlike Seamen": FTX-513 - Sailors & Sweethearts: FTX-514 - Offshore Fisherman: 515 - Bill WESTAWAY sings "All for the grog": FF-1103 - "Ballads & Blues" Sea Music radio prog prod by Denis Mitchell 1956: CASS 0376 - ALLEGRO ALL-879 1968 - Cyril TAWNEY (comp only): ARGO ZFB-28 "In Port"/ DTS LFX-1 1963 "Between Decks"/ EMI 7-EG-738 1962 (45 EP) "Baby Lie Easy" "Songs of The West Country"- THE YETTIES: ARGO ZFB-86 "All at Sea" - CRITICS GROUP: ARGO ZDA-137-8 - Merdydd EVANS (in Welsh): RPL REC- 111 1971 - Bob ROBERTS rec by PK, Suffolk 22/5/54: RPL 19985-7 - rec at sea: RPL 21153 - Sam LARNER rec by Philip Donnellan Norfolk 1958: RPL LP 26075-6 - Paddy WALSH rec by Cyril Tawney Devonport 1960: RPL LP 26310 - Skipper BALL at Sea 1958: RPL LP 26954 - Louis KILLEN & Warners: COLLECTOR (USA)-1928 1977 "Steady as she goes"- EMI CLP-1362 1960 "A Pinch of Salt" - THE LIVERPOOL SPINNERS rec by PK: EMI CLP-1500 1962 - Stan HUGILL rec by PK with ch & acc: EMI CLP-1542 1962 - Steve BENBOW: EMI CLP-1603 1963 - Louis Killen "Sea Chanteys" ESP-1085 - Sam LARNER rec by Peggy Seeger & Ewan McColl: FOLKWAYS FG-3507 - Tony HALL & Nic JONES: FREE REED FRR-012 1976 - SWAN ARCADE LEADER LER-2032 - THE SHANTYMEN with orch incl instrum medley PICKWICK ALL-879 - The BUCCANEERS SAGA FDY-2090 - John ROBERTS & Tony BARRAND SWALLOWTAIL 4 1973 - Bob ROBERTS (voc/mel) TALKING BOOK 2/150/26 (33 ep) 1960 - Various singers TOPIC 12-T-110 1964 - A L LLOYD "Whaling" 12-T-174 1967 - "Nelson's Navy" 212-TS-232 1973 - "Shanties" 12-TS-234 1974 - Sea songs & shanties Sampler 12-TPS-205 1958/66 - "Sailormen & Servingmaids" 12-T-194 1969 (Caedmon) - Bernard WRIGLEY 12-TS-211 1971 & 12-TS-241 1974 - Sam LARNER 12-T-244 1974 (from RPL) - Jumbo BRIGHTWELL 12-TS-261 1975 - LING Family Suffolk 12-TS-292 1977 - Bob ROBERTS 12-TS-361 1978 - NOTTS ALLIANCE: TRADITION TSR-011 1972 - TOPIC TSCD-651 1998- Ireland -- Aran Islands: 421 - Wales: - William HOWELL rec by Seamus Ennis, Fishguard 1953: RPL 22883 - Canada & USA -- Yankee John GALUSH: FTX-921 - North Carolina: FTX-926 - FOLKWAYS FM-4006 Canada - Sailorman JACK CASS-1229 & 1230 - Elsewhere -- Joseph SPENCE BahamasARHOOLIE 1061 - Solomon Is panpipes & sound of sea OCORA OCR-74

SEAWEED - Ireland: Dialect speaker from Newtonards, Co Down, N.Ireland talking about a farmer collecting edible Rock Dallus and putting it on his fields: FTX-450

SENILITY - AGE

SERVANTS - England: - Mrs Waddell, rec by PK, Knutsford, Chesh 1951: FTX-451 - Richard BROWN rec by PK, Barrow-on-Humber 1953: FTX-452 (Talk about ran-tanning & using stocks for people who haven't been good to their servants)

SHEEP-SHEARING - Jimmy WHITE: Talk while shearing & parts of song "Cannie Shepherd Laddies of the Hills" rec by PK, Rothbury, Northumb 23/6/54: RPL 20771 - FTX-451 Dialect

SHEPHERDS -- RPL 18445 Albert PEACHEY rec by PK, Swinbrooke, Burford, Oxfordsh Oct 1952 (Dialect talk about shepherding) - Jimmy WHITE: RPL 20606 - Adam JACKSON Northumb: RPL 20608-9 - Jimmy WHITE (shearing & singing) & George SNAITH (talk about "stick-dressing) 23/6/54: RPL 20771 - Mr & Mrs WHEATLAND rec by PK , Hove, Sussex 1963: FTX-428 - Dialect Samples: FTX-451-3 - Christopher RIDLEY HURLER HURLS-008 1972 (45 EP) "Searching for lambs" with sheep & bells - Cotswold Craftsmen: SAYDISC CSDL-247 (cass) - Bob BLAKE: TOPIC 12-T-254 1975 - WATERSONS: TOPIC 12-TS-265 1975 & 12-TS-415 1981 - Manx Gaelic: FTX-007 - Welsh - John THOMAS, Bala Merionethsh: FTX-051 - Elsewhere - France: COLUMBIA SL-207 A11 shepherd & shepherdess song - Roumania: ELECTRECORD EPD 1016/ DAT-90-633 #8 #13 & #16 - Peru: OCORA OCR-30 B1 flute - Burundi: OCORA OCR-40 A5 song with musical bow - Armenia: OCORA OCR-50 B3 reed solo - duduk solo: OCR-67 A4 - Bali: flute OCR-72 (buffalo-herder) - Rajasthan: OCR-81 one man & 2 flutes - Ancient Pastoral Music incl shepherds pipes etc rec by Matt Arnberg 1941-63: SWEDISH RADIO RELP-5017

SHOEMAKERS - COBBLERS

SMUGGLING - Channel Islands Walter Brehard, Guernsey: FTX-243 - Jack PEREE (of St Ouens) rec by PK, Clair Val, St Saviours, Jersey, 1960: RPL LP 26236 (talk about local smugglers and "Spring Jack"): FTX-244

SOLDIERS -- England: "General Wolfe" & other songs rec "The Ship Inn", Blaxhall, Suffolk: FTX-036 "Swansea Barracks" Phil TANNER, Gower, S.Wales: FTX-057 - Seven Suffolk singers: FTX-099 - The Bold Dragoon" COPPER Family, Sussex: FTX-239 - "William Taylor" "Pop" MAYNARD, Surrey: FTX-279 - - Fighting Sailor: FTX-513 - "The Deadly Wars": FTX-516 - Napoleonic Battlefield: FTX-517 - Soldiers Sweethearts: FTX-518 - THE YETTIES "Up in Arms": ARGO ZDA-100 1974 - 147 1971 "Songs & Music of the Redcoats (1642-1902)" - Walter HAYNE rec by PK, Abbotsbury, Dorset: RPL 22437 - Ireland: - "No Surrender" Robert CINNAMOND, Belfast: FTX-157 - "Higher Germanie" Beth CRONIN, Co Cork: FTX-160 - "Soldier will you marry me?" Seamus ENNIS: FTX-169 - "The Squaddies Dream" Graeme Miles: FTX-224 - CLANCY Brothers incl D-day Dodgers: CBS 63249 - Ewan McCOLL Bundook Ballads: TOPIC 12-T-130 1958 - John KIRKPATRICK: TOPIC 12-TS-247 1974 Valiant Soldier - Jumbo BRIGHTWELL Suffolk: TOPIC 12-TS-261 1975 - Roy Palmer on Radio 2: 21/11/90 CASS- 60-1032 --- USA - Jean JENKINS (with banjo): FTX-914 - "Whisky in the Jar" Lena Bourne FISH: FTX-922 - "The Cruel Wars are raging": FTX-923 - Elsewhere -- Hungary QUALITON 4 B2 (a) incl lament

SPINNING - Irish Gaelic -- Colm KEANE rec by Alan Lomax, Carna Co Galway 1951 in cante-fable "The Old Hag " 7"RTR-0566 - Scots Gaelic -- Calum JOHNSTON rec by Alan Lomax, Barra 1951: COLUMBIA SL-209 1952/ ROUNDER CD-1743 - Mary MORRISON rec by AL, Barra, Hebrides 1951: FTX-191 - Mary GILLIES rec by AL, Barra 1951: FTX-463 (both actuality with sound of wheel)

STONE - QUARRYING

STORYTELLING - England: - Luke STANLEY: RPL 19032 "Old Mother Shipton" - Norfolk 1955 Cumulative Rhyme: "Stick, stick, beat the dog" RPL 22157 - Channel Islands 1957: RPL LP 23840 - Isle of Man: FTX-444 & 445 - Emma VICKERS rec by Fred Hamer: VWML-003 1969 "Cure for the Mare" & "The Egg Timer" - Fred ROOKE: FTX-046 - Bob ROBERTS (Suffolk): FTX-047 - Charlie JOSE & Freddy JEWEL, Boscastle, Cornwall: 096 - Ben BAXTER, Southrepps, Norfolk 1955: FTX-234 "Stick stick" - "Odyseus, Beowolf & others told by Hugh LUPTON: FTX-304/ 305/ 306 - Devon Dialect: FTX-403 - Miners (Tyneside & Clydeside): FTX-409 - Folklore (Devon Dorset & Somerset): FTX-412 - Jan Stewer (Devon dialect): 413 - Somerset farmer: FTX-414 - SONGWAINERS: ARGO ZFB-31 1971 "Old Jonas" coffin story coll by Gardiner, Evesham, Worcestersh - Sam LARNER rec Winterton, Norfolk: FOLKWAYS FG 3507 - ELLIOTS of Birtley Durham: FOLKWAYS FG 3565 - Jack ELLIOTT Birtley Co Durham: LEADER LEA-4001 1969 - Seamus ENNIS (U-pipes & whistle) with stories: LEADER LEA-2003 - Eddie BUTCHER: LEADER LED- 2070 "Man, woman & mouse" - Geoffrey WOODRUFF Bristol dialect: SAYDISC 335D-245 1973 - Songs & humour of the Cotswolds SDL-300 - Fireside Tales rec Flamborough Yorksh by Jim Eldon: STICK SD-005 - Jasper SMITH (gypsy) rec by Mike Yates: TOPIC 12-TS-395 1982 "Pepper and Salt" Waxey Candles" - Bob LEWIS/ Bob BLAKE & George SPICER , Lewes, Sussex: TRANSATLANTIC XTRS- 1150 1975 - Alf TUCKER Totnes, Devon 2/6/71: RTR-0797 local Dartington stories - Billy BENNINGTON rec by Jim COUZA, Barford, Norfolk 20/7/82 CASS-0871 - Paul SMITH (folklorist) Modern Myths & Contemporary Legends Radio 4: 19/9/84: CASS-0444 - Robert LENG & Jossy "Pop" MANPRIZE, E Yorks fisherman & Ben JARVIS, Pocklington cobbler, rec by Jim Eldon 1982-8 SD-005 1988 CASS-0992- Wales - John THOMAS, (blind shepherd bard), Bala (N Wales): FTX-051 - Coalminers of the Rhondda, S Wales: FTX-055 - Ireland -- Michael DOHERTY rec by Alan Lomax, Co Donegal: RPL 16657-8/ St Colmkille parables 1951: RPL 21900-01/ Johnny DOHERTY rec by PK 1953: FTX-073/ 074/ 075/ RPL 19578 "Yankee Farmer" & "St Columbkille & the boy with the rope" - Paddy GALVIN: AS I ROVED OUT "Collector's" Radio prog 1956: FTX-257 about German collector paying 5/- per story - Seamus ENNIS (Dublin): FTX-302/ CLADDAGH CC-19/ CASS-0948 "King of Ireland's son"- (with whistle) rec Pat Sky: "Don Niperi Septo" FREE REED FFR-001-2 1975 - Jack Tales told by Frank McPEAKE of Belfast, 1961: FTX-303 - Pat MULLEN rec Aran Islands Galway 5/9/62 RPL LP 27625 (4 stories) & rec 21/10/62/ FTX-421 - Terence McSHANE, 1953: RPL 20029 "The Last of the Fairiesof Lough Guile" - Sean HAUGHEY Donegal 1954: RPL 21900-01 "The Fairy Piper" - Packie BYRNE: EFDSS LP-109 - Mikeen McCARTHY Irish traveller rec in London VWML-001 1986 CASS-1243 "Early in the month of Spring" incl a story "Go for the water" - Radio 2 10/5/95: CASS-1310 Colm Sands introduces John Campbell, Armagh with story: "Hitler sends plane to Ireland to meet John Murphy" - Scotland -- Jimmy McBEATH, Scots "supertramp": FTX-058/ 059/ 060 - John STRACHAN, Fyvie: FTX-065/ 066 - Jeannie ROBERTSON (Aberdeen tinker): FTX-067 - Jeannie ROBERTSON: FTX-187 - Blind Alec STEWART: Scots "Ossianic" Tales told in Gaelic & English: FTX-259 - "Jack Tales" from Henry McGregor, Perthshire 1955: FTX-303 - Davie STEWART: FTX-461/ 462 - Annie JOHNSTON: FTX-463 - Andy IRVINE Shetland Folk Tale: RPL 17007 - "..and that's my story: tales, yarns & legends from Britain & Ireland" rec by Ewan McColl & Peggy Seeger, Charles Parker, Jim Carroll, Pat McKenzie, Bob Patten, John Howson and Denis Turner: EFDSS VWML-005 1991 CASS-1244 - William WALLACE rec by Seamus Ennis, Galloway 1953: RPL 21866 Dog anecdotes 1950 - "Blind" Alec STEWART travelling with adopted son & daughter rec by PK & Hamish Henderson, 3/7/55 Ossian Stories in Gaelic with transl RTR-0629-41 & 5" 0642/ CASS-1003-C60 Story of "Ossian" & talk about heroes (see TOCHER 4 & 29) - Robin WILLIAMSON: PIGS WHISKERS MUSIC PWM-001 1981/ CASS 60-1007 Stories with harp: "Fisherman's Son" & "Gruagach of Tricks" - PWM-003 1982/ CASS-60-1006 "Rory Mor & the Guagach Gaire" - PWM-004 1984/ CASS- 60-1008 Five Humorous tales of Scotland & Ireland - Europe -- Italia: ALBATROS 8088 #2 sung "Cantastoria" (unrhymed) one with acc, drum by man & woman "The Tragedy of Mattmark, Pavia Lombardia" rec by Roberto Leydi/ "Story of Petru Taurmina" Catania Sicily (picture on cover) - Improvisation by two men contrasting Armenia & Russia rec by Arezzo Toscana - Romania: ELECTRECORD A5 B3 & 4 Narration over pipes 6A4 part spoken & part sung - Africa - Cameroon: OCORA OCR-25 - Gabon: OCR-41 A5 spoken with harp & ch - Volta: OCR-51 B5 solo ch with percussion - Zaire: OCR-53 Mongo with ch & sansa - Nigeria: OCR-82 B3 Male singer with accomp - Caribbean - Manuel CHARLES rec by AL, Dominica June 1962: ROUNDER CD 1724 1999 Story with song (African style) - USA -- Albert STODDARD: LIB OF CONGRESS AAFS L44 "Brer Rabbit" Stories/ CASS-0209 - Frank WARNER: "Brer Rabbit" CASS - Maud LONG Hot Springs, NC: LIB OF CONGRESS AAFS L-47-8/ CASS-0253 Tales: "Jack & the Drill", "Sop Doll, Bull" - Burl HAMMONS Family: LIB OF CONGRESS AAFS L-65-6 - Roby, Buna & Ray HICKS, their son, rec by Frank & Anne Warner, Beech Mountain 1951: FTX-928/ Ray HICKS Jack Tales: FOLK LEGACY FTA-1 Jack Tales / CASS-0205 & TRADITION TLP-1011 1957/ FTA-14/"Jack and the King", "Jack, Will & Tom & the heifer's hide", "Jack & the robbers" (Three Steers) & Jack & the Unicorn & Wild Hog" - Richard CHASE (USA): FOLK LEGACY - Hattie PRESNELL, rec Mike Yates, Beech Creek, Watauga Co NC 24/8/80 "Jack & the King's Chest" VWML-007 d/CASS 1026 1992 - Jim COUZA rec Bewdley Festival: Radio 2: 26/10/88: CASS-30-0737 "Hedgehog & the Rabbit crossing the road"- Frank Warner cass Roy Edward THOMAS old people in Appalachia & Ozarks - Elsewhere -- Korea: COLUMBIA SL-214 "Changuk" ballad opera "Rabbit Story" with drum - Iceland: ODEON MOAK 17 Rimour Epic Poems - Solomon Islands: OCORA OCR-74 A5 Two soloists., ch & rattles - Venezuela: OCR-78 B4 spoken & sung with gtr & mandolin - Rajasthan: OCR-81 B3 & 4: 2 men with "sarangi" fiddles

STRIKES -- Miners Talking rec by PK & Alan Lomax, Treorchy S Wales 1953: FTX-055 - STAVERTON BRIDGE: SAYDISC SDL-266 1975 - TOPIC 12-T-122 1965 - 189 1962 - 188 & 12-TS-206 & 210 "Nailmakers" - Tom GILFELLON with THE HIGH LEVEL RANTERS incl Colin ROSS, Johnny HANDLE, Harry BOARDMAN, Dick GAUGHAN & Alister ANDERSON: TOPIC TSCD-486 1997

SUPERNATURAL -- Dave & Toni ARTHUR LEADER 2017 1970 - MUCKRAM WAKES "Old Joe Biggin" LEADER 2093 - Pete & Chris COE: LEADER 2098

SUPERSTITIONS - FOLKLORE

SWEEPS -- Dicky LASHBROOK (travelling chimney sweep) rec by PK, Kelly, Devon 27/5/52: RPL 18443 Talk about his early life as a sweep

SWORD DANCES - see under MUSIC-TYPES

TALES - STORIES

TALK- England - Harry COX (Norfolk): FTX-034 - Bob Roberts (Suffolk): FTX-047 - Treorchy Miners (S Wales): FTX-055 - FINDLATERS Orkney: FTX-063 - Billy WELLS (Oxfordsh): FTX-384 - Boscastle (Cornwall): FTX-096 - Charlie WILLS (Dorset): FTX-097 -Suffolk: FTX-099 -Phoebe SMITH (gypsies): FTX-100 -Mummers (Dorset): FTX-103 - (Wiltsh): FTX-104 - (Lincolnsh): FTX-105 - (Cheshire): FTX-107 - (Cumberland): FTX-108 -(Yorksh): FTX-109 - Horn Dancers (Staffordsh): FTX-110 - Lake District : FTX-120 - Lucky LUCKHURST (London): FTX-332 - Tom BROWN (Norfolk): FTX-133-134 -Sam LARNER (Norfolk): FTX-139 - Sam LARNER rec by Philip Donnellan Winterton Norfolk 7/3/58: RPL LP 26075 talk about learning songs - Tim "Paddy" WALSH rec by Cyril Tawney, Devonport 4/5/60: RPL LP 26311 / FTX-206 talk about shanty-singing etc - Cumb Dialect: RPL LP 26582 - Portland (Dorset): FTX-203 - Rowland KELLETT (Leeds): FTX-209 -North Yorksh: FTX-211 - Sheffield: FTX-212 -Padstow Hobby Horse (Cornwall): FTX-215 - Minehead Hobby Horse (Somerset): FTX-216 - Devon WI: FTX-401-FTX-404 - Miners (Durham & Clydeside): FTX-409 - Lake District: FTX-410 -Thatchers (Dorset & Somerset): FTX-411 -West Country Folklore: FTX-412 -Gloucestersh: FTX-415 - Regional Selections: FTX-451-FTX-453 -- Skipper WOODHOUSE Norfolk 2/1/53: RPL 18443 Lifeboat Story - Conversation in farm kitchen between father & son: W & S SPILLER (father & son) rec by PK, Sidmouth, Devon June 1952: RPL 18083 - Jim GUNTER & Malcolm WATKINS rec by PK, Forest of Dean 1952: RPL 18444 - Mr ABLE rec Peover Chesh 14/6/51: RPL 18446 - T WADDELL Knutsford 13/6/51 Sanding for weddings & May day/ 50 years of domestic service - Billy DICKESON rec by PK, Morston, Norfolk 1952: RPL 20134 Ploughing/ Stephen BALDWIN rec PK, Upton Bishop, Herdfordsh 1952: local anecdotes - Sexton (83) Alton, farmer Edingale Tamworth Staffs & farmer Ellenhall rec Stanley Ellis 1955: RPL 22302 - Ted SKINNER rec by Bob Copper, Wisborough Green, Fittleworth, Sussex 11/10/54: RPL 22734 - Village Cricket & life as a greengrocer - Mr & Mrs CARNWELL rec by PK, Hammerwich, Staffs 25/11/55: RPL LP 23930 - Edgar ALLINGTON rec by PK, Brandon, Suffolk July 1956 - Jimmy JONES rec by Sasha Morsom Liverpool 19/12/57: RPL LP 25617 his life & gaol story & song "My name is Mr Bootle" - Truro Wassaaillers interviewed by PK 1957: RPL LP 25653 - Talking about Alfred Williams: Mrs Laura PILL (nee Williams) rec Swindon 4/12/59 & Mrs Torne (nee Ada Mary Williams) rec South Marston Wilts 25/7/59 - "Larn yersel' Geordie" MAWSON MWM 1001 - Nobby Clark rec Michael Feist, Swimbridge, Devon 1974 (see letter file) CASS 0330 Harvest, farmwork, 14-18 War & apprenticeship - "Cotswold Characters: Stories & reminiscences of Country Life" SAYDISC SDL 222 1972 CASS-1197 rec by Peter Duddridge incl songs "Joe Buggins" & "Village Pump" - "Cotswold Craftsmen" interviewed by June Turner SAYDISC SDL 247 CASS-1196 - "Steam & Harness: Recollections of Power & Transport" SAYDISC SDL-284 CASS-1182 - SDL-300 (cass) Songs & Humour - CSDL-300 "While I work I whistle SAYDISC CSDL-300 CASS-1179 - SD-245 1973 Geoffrey WOODRUFF: Bristol dialect & stories - Ireland -- talk about local customs - South Armagh: FTX-165 - Margaret Barry: life story: FTX-270 - Jack Stories (Scotland & Ireland): FTX-303 - Sheila GALLAGHER rec by PK, Middle Dore Donegal 24/8/53: RPL 01502 Old Days & travelling schoolmaster - Isle of Aran, Co Galway: FTX-421 - Talk about her employment in Co Tyrone: RPL 21902 - Robert CINNAMOND rec by PK & Sean O Boyle, Belfast July 1955: RPL LP 24837 - Dominic BEHAN about songs DOBELL F-LEUT/4 1962 - Scotland -- Jack Stories: FTX-303 - Barra Hebrides: FTX-463 - Neil GILLIES (talk about sea birds) rec by Seamus Ennis, Barra, Hebrides June 1955: RPL LP 23995 - John STRACHAN of Fyvie rec Aberdeen 15/11/56: RPL LP 23220 Stories of old days - Channel Islands French: Mr & Mrs Adolphus Le RUEZ rec by PK, Bonne Nuit, St Ouens, Jersey, CI 24/4/57 C I: RPL LP 23841 expl in English aft: FTX-213-214 - Mr & Mrs Jack Le FEUVRE rec by PK, Sark, CI 3/5/57: RPL LP 23842 - Morrison TORODE, rec by PK, St Peters, Guernsey CI: RPL LP 23844 6/5/57 Talk about Guernsey French - Bill THOUME rec by PK, St Martin, Guernsey CI 1/5/57: RPL LP 23845 Scots Tinkers: FTX-461-462 - USA -- Frank WARNER Story of Folksong USA: FTX-901 - Belo COZAD, American Indian rec by Willard Rhodes, Andarko, Oklahoma, Summer 1941: ROUNDER CD 1500 1997 - Elsewhere -- Turkey: Anatolian Wedding customs from Ankara Radio 1979

THATCHING -- ALBERT CHURCH (dialect talk) rec by PK, Biddenham, Bedfordsh 22/10/52: 7"RTR-0551/ RPL 19339/ FTX-453 - Dorset & Somerset speakers: FTX-411 - Cotswolds both roofs & ricks: SAYDISC SDL-247 (c)

THEATRE - England: - Peggy SEEGER & Ewan Mc COLL: "The Paper Stage" Broadside Ballads of plays by Elizabethan dramatists ARGO ZDA-98 1960 - Freedom Songs Martin Luther King play rec London 1969 TOPIC IMP-S-102 - Brighouse (Yorks) Theatre Group: Pace Egg Play with interviews rec March 1963: CASS-0390 -Seeger & McColl - Ballads in Elizabethan plays: ARGO ZDA-98 1969 - Ireland: - "FAMINE" Play by Sean O Neil with music by BETWEEN THE ACTS with Phil RUSH (fid) rec Gloucester May-June 1989 CASS-0931 - USA - Martin Luther-King Freedom Songs: TOPIC IMP-S-102 1969 - Elsewhere -- Nigeria, Ife Univ (Yoruba) Theatre: ARC 1062 -- Malaysia: Wayang Kulit (Shadow Puppets): BARENREITER BM-30-L2026 - Malagasi 1965 Declamation instrum & choir OCORA OCR-24 - Bali, Wayang Kulit: OCR-60 1971

TINKERS -- see also GYPSIES - Gypsies & Tinkers in Britain & Ireland: FTX-031 - Scotland: Jimmy McBEATH (Scots super-tramp): FTX-058/ 059/ 060 - Davie STEWART (songs with acc rec Dundee, Angus): FTX-180 - Berrypickers, Blairgowrie (Perthsh): FTX-182/ 183/ 184/ 185 - Jeannie ROBERTSON: FTX-186/ 187 - Scots Tales in Gaelic & English told by Blind Alec STEWART: FTX-259 - A-ROVING radio prog: FTX-309 - "Button buskers" Scots Border accordion player: FTX-363/ Charlie LINDSAY (acc): SAYDISC SDL-407 - Jeannie ROBERTSON (Aberdeen): FTX-067 - Davie STEWART (stories & talk about tinkers): FTX-461/ 462 - Jeannie ROBERTSON (with gtr) RIVERSIDE 633 "The Scots Tinker Lady" - Stewarts of Blairgowrie: TOPIC 12-T-138 / 179 Travelling Stewarts/ 181 Festival at Blair 1968- ISLAND FOLK 1001 1975 (boxed) - Alewn McWeeney coll: LYRICHORD LL-178 - Ireland: - Margaret BARRY rec by PK, Dundalk, Co Louth 26/7/52: RPL 18295-8/ COLUMBIA SL-204 1952 "She moved through the Fair": FTX-070 - DOHERTYS (fids) of Donegal John & Michael: FTX-073/ 074/ 075- Irish Tinkers rec by PK, Belfast 24/7/52: RPL 18301-6/ 18550-4 & 18577-90/ FTX-166/ 167/ 168 - Felix DORAN (U-pipes): FTX-172 - Margaret BARRY accompanying reels played by Michael GORMAN (fid) of Sligo rec by PK, London: 174 - John REILLY songs (Roscommon): FTX-175 - Irish Traveller's Cant ("Gammon") expl by Paddy RYAN & Christy PURCELL & Romany by Billy SMITH rec by PK, Belfast 24/7/52: RPL 18299-300/ FTX-441 - Margaret BARRY: RIVERSIDE RLP-12-602 1955 "The Irish Tinker Lady"/ - Margaret BARRY TOP RANK 25/020 1960 solo album with Gorman (fid) / TOPIC 10-T-6 1958 Songs & fid tunes (+ others) / with Gorman (fid), Tommy Maguire (mel), Paddy Breen (vert flute) & Patsy Goolden (piano): TOPIC 12-T-123 1965 - "Early in the month of Spring" Songs & a story ("Go for the water") from Irish travellers rec in London from 1973 by Jim Carroll, Pat Mackenzie & Denis Turner: VWML-001 1986 CASS-1243/ Radio 2: 1/4/87: CASS-90-0567

TRADES - (Books) - TYAS: "Heads of the People" - MORTON: "Our Fellow Men" - see also under - BAKERS - BEGGARS - BLACKSMITHS - BUILDERS - BUTCHERS - COBBLERS - CLOGMAKERS - COMBERS - DUSTMEN - GLOVEMAKERS - GROCERS - HURDLEMAKERS - KNOCKER-UPPERS - LABOURERS - LACEMAKERS - MILLERS - MINERS - NAILMAKERS - PUBLICANS - SAILORS - SOLDIERS - SWEEPS - TAILORS - THATCHERS - TILERS - WEAVERS - WHEELWRIGHTS

TRADES - A-MINING WE WILL GO - AWA WI MA LADDIE - BALLAD OF THE TRADES - BLEACHER LASSIE - BUY BROOM BESOMS - CARTERS - CHAPTER OF CHEATS - DYER'S APPRENTICE - GARDENER AND THE PLOUGHMAN - GERMAN MUSICIANER - HARD TIMES OF OLD ENGLAND - HARVEST SONG - HOW FIVE AND TWENTY SHILLINGS WERE EXPENDED IN ONE WEEK - I AM A COACHMAN - JACK OF ALL TRADES - LABOURING BAKER - LONDON ADULTERATIONS - MAID OF BALLADOO - MARE AND THE FOAL - MASON'S APRON - MILLY MULLIGAN - Mr BLACKSMITH - RAMBLING COMBER - RIGS OF THE TIME - SHOEMAKER - SOLDIER AND THE SAILOR - SOUTHERN ENGLISH LABOURER (Wilson) - TAILOR TO MY TRADE - TARRY WOOL - TUMBA BLOODY RUMBA - WARK OF THE WEAVERS - WE POOR LABOURING MEN - WEE WEAVER -- "Talking with gypsies" radio prog introduced by John Seymour: FTX-282 - Gus ELEN: TOPIC 12-T-396 1985 incl Publicans, Dustmen, Costers etc

TRADES - (Kids) - DUKES A-RIDING (Dearham)

TRANSPORT -- Local Talk rec by Peter Duddridge, Gloucestershire 1960's "Steam & Harness: Recollections of Power & Transport" SAYDISC SDL-284 CASS-1182

TREES - (AXE-FELLING) - USA -- Unknown group (voc) rec by John & Alan Lomax, State Penitentiary, Huntsville, Texas 1934: ROUNDER CD-11661-1821-2 1999 "Pick a bale of cotton" - Film by Pete Seeger, State Penintentiary, Huntsville, Texas: Tree-felling by prisoners - Caribbean -- rec by AL, Dominica, June 1962: ROUNDER CD 1724 1999 - Elsewhere - OCORA OCR-20 Niger solo & ch response - OCR-43 Cent Afr 1962 Tree felling with axe solo & ch

 
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