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Total number of records: 123

Count of Record type

Record typeCount
Archives93
Books and printed items27
Objects1
Indexes1
People and organisations1

Top 10: Collection group

Collection groupCount
Yorkshire Archaeological and Historical Society71
Brotherton Collection15
Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture11
Liddle Collection7
Cookery Collection3
Leeds Philosophical and Literary Society2
Art and Antique Market1
English Literature1
Godfrey Bingley Photographic Archive1
John Evan Bedford Library of Furniture History1

Top 10: Subject

SubjectCount
occupations7
culture6
folk music6
quarries and quarrying6
architecture5
buildings5
persons5
world war, 1914-19185
community life4
death4

Top 10: Place

PlaceCount
Richmond (Yorkshire)2
Bolton On Swale; Catterick; Yorkshire North Riding1
Boroughbridge (England)1
Great Britain1
Grewelthorpe; Kirkby Malzeard; Yorkshire West Riding1
Myton-On-Swale (England)1
Nidd, River (England)1
Ouse, River (England)1
Swale, River (England)1
Thirsk; Yorkshire North Riding1

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Barnard, Thomas (1685-1750)7
Hastings, Elizabeth, Lady, 1682-17397
Bradley, Tom5
Kissling, Werner (1895-1988)5
Moxon, Elizabeth3
Swales, John3
Calvert, Mrs2
Cook, Catherine2
Killingbeck, John2
Speight, Harry (1855-1915)2

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From 15006
From 160042
From 170031
From 180018
From 190026

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Up to 15995
Up to 169921
Up to 179952
Up to 189917
Up to 199927

Archive Print part

The Swale

Bradley, Tom

1891

Folded map on lining paper. "Reproduced from The Yorkshire weekly post."

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SWALE, WILLIAM ERIC

1914-1918

4 Christmas cards (1914-1918); 30 postcards (1914-c 1918); 4 postcards with sketches used to illustrate a lecture (nd); 3 watercolour cartoons (nd); 50 photographs (1915-1918); Papers from the America...

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Baldersby Park, River Swale
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Baldersby Park, River Swale

Bingley, Godfrey (1842-1927)

18/May/1891

Photograph taken near Thirsk, Yorkshire

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Swale trade card (label)
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Swale trade card (label)

Swale; William Cave

c.1815

Pictorial oval 19th century engraved trade card (label) of Swale with beadwork border. Image of soldier on horseback with sword. Trader details in a variety of typefaces

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Letter to Ralph Thoresby from Awnshaw Swale

29 Jun 1693

Of Saxon coins for Camden's Britannia.

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Survey by Salomon Swale of four farms in Ilkley

1615

Gives tenants' names, field names and acreages

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Letter to Mr Swale from Francis Hildyard

3 Oct 1715

Account addressed to Mr Swale, bookseller. With note by Thoresby below.

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Sender: Bodger, John Eric Sturton

Recipient: Kirby Swales, John

Letters: 1

Date(s): 12 Jan 1915

Location: SC MS 439/185

Note: Acknowledges receipt of four copies of "Cassier's Engineering

Monthly". MS.


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Grant of authority to erect a new water mill on the River Swale at Thrintoft

10 May 1593

1 William, Lord Howard 2 William Middleton of Stockeld, esquire Allusion to the question of which of the two parties should be the chief lord of the manor of Thrintoft; and to Middleton wanting ...

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