Dore (SK3081), Yorkshire


I.T.Jones Collection (1981, D.Wood - a)

Mrs. Dixie Wood (Inf.)
Dore, Yorks: Questionnaire from Mrs Dixie Wood 27/1/81
I.T.Jones Collection, Com. 27th Jan.1981, Ref.K15-1

Questionnaire from Mrs Dixie Wood, aged 36, from Elston. She remembers "T'Owd Horse" about 15 years previously being performed in the pubs in the village of Dore near Sheffield every new Year. She remembered 3 or 4 men coming round singing the life story of the old horse.

I.T.Jones Collection (1981, D.Wood - b)

Mrs. Dixie Wood (Inf.)
Dore, Yorks: Letter to Mrs Wood 4/3/81
I.T.Jones Collection, Com. 4th Mar.1981, Ref.K15-2

Transcript of letter to Mrs Wood thanking her for her letter and enclosing a copy of an article in Lore and Language, July 1973 which describes the tradition in Dore.