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Total number of records: 106

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occupations55
implements, utensils etc41
community life35
nature35
culture34
home34
animals30
house furnishings29
agriculture25
persons24

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Kissling, Werner (1895-1988)50
Blades, Jim11
Horner, Mr M.9
Alderson, Richard5
Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)5
Hucklebridge, John5
Neddy Dick5
Hartley, Dorothy4
Hunter, Mr T.4
Horner, Will3

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Stagecoach

[1970s]

Photographic postcard from the West Yorkshire Folk Museum, Shibden Hall, Halifax. The postcard shows a stagecoach drawn by a team of four horses, which dates from around 1820. Men and women in period ...

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Shoemaker's Vice

Kissling, Werner (1895-1988)

Summer 1968

Mr. T. Hunter (retired shoemaker, saddler, cobbler and clogmaker) working leather with the aid of a shoemaker's vice, or clam, Redmire ( Wensleydale). The shoemaker's vice is an implement made of two ...

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Shoemaker's Vice

Kissling, Werner (1895-1988)

Summer 1968

Mr. T. Hunter (retired shoemaker, saddler, cobbler and clogmaker) working leather with the aid of a shoemaker's vice, or clam, Redmire ( Wensleydale). The shoemaker's vice is an implement made of two ...

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Shoemaker's Vice

Kissling, Werner (1895-1988)

Summer 1968

Mr. T. Hunter (retired shoemaker, saddler, cobbler and clogmaker) working leather with the aid of a shoemaker's vice, or clam, Redmire ( Wensleydale). The shoemaker's vice is an implement made of two ...

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Shoemaker's Vice
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Shoemaker's Vice

Kissling, Werner (1895-1988)

Summer 1968

Mr. T. Hunter (retired shoemaker, saddler, cobbler and clogmaker) working leather with the aid of a shoemaker's vice, or clam, Redmire ( Wensleydale). The shoemaker's vice is an implement made of two ...

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Sound Recordings, Staffordshire

Buckland, Theresa Jill

08/Sep/1975 - 08/Sep/1975

Douglas Fowell, accompanist to the Abbots Bromley Horn Dance, recorded in Abbots Bromley; plays tunes on the piano accordion: 'Cock of the North', 'The Girl I Left Behind Me' , 'River of Jordan', 'Off...

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Sound Recordings, Oxfordshire

Morson, I F

1966-1969

Jim Willding, recorded in the Baker's Arms pub, Oxford, on the 5 December 1967; sings [unidentified, with accordion], 'Cock of the North'; conversation; 'Banks of the Sweet Primroses', 'Daisybell', 'I...

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Norwegian Dulcimer
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Norwegian Dulcimer

March 1965

Female in traditional dress, sitting at a wooden table and playing a Norwegian dulcimer, at the Norsk Folkemuseum (Norwegian Folk Museum) in Bygdøy, Oslo. The room in which the woman sits is inside o...

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Mr. Lipson
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Mr. Lipson

Unknown

[1970]

Mr. Lipson, sitting in a chair, possibly in the lounge of an old people's home, at an unidentified location. The provenance of this photograph is unknown.

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"Gypsy Couple"

[1970s]

Copy of a photograph taken by Dorothy Hartley, ca. 1920 of a Gypsy Traveller couple, sitting on the grass under a tree with a food hamper and kettle, at an unknown (English) location.

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Shepherd and Dog
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Shepherd and Dog

[1970s]

Copy of a photograph dating from the late-19th/early-20th century, of a man [?shepherd/?farmer] sitting with his dog in a field of sheep. The location has not been identified.

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Village Hall Stage
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Village Hall Stage

[1970s]

The stage in a village or church hall at an unidentified location. A piano sits on the stage at the left hand side.

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