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Title: The ladle

Author: Prior, Matthew

Attribution: Prior, Poems, p.125

Date(s): 1703

Manuscript: Lt 61

Contents: Witty, humorous tale based on Ovid's story of Baucis and

Philemon, in which a farmer and his wife waste three wishes

granted them by two gods whom they entertain in their home

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Cheesemaking: Ladling off Whey
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Cheesemaking: Ladling off Whey
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Cheesemaking: Ladling off Whey

Kissling, Werner (1895-1988)

July 1963

Mrs. M. E. Scott ladling off whey from the curd and making sure no slip-curds (slips) are left, in her home, West Stonesdale ( Swaledale). A loose-woven cheesecloth covers the curd whilst the whey is ...

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Oatcake Making: Bowl and Ladle

Mallinson, J Mrs

March 1967

Mr. Leslie Feather preparing a riddling board with semolina for making oatcakes, in his shop, Haworth (West Yorkshire). The semolina is sprinkled liberally over the riddling board from a special semol...

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Oatcake Making: Bowl and Ladle
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Oatcake Making: Bowl and Ladle

Mallinson, J Mrs

March 1967

Mr. Leslie Feather pouring a ladle-full of fermented oatmeal and water mixture into the centre of a riddling board, in his shop, Haworth (West Yorkshire). The board has been sprinkled with semolina in...

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Mug, cup, knife, ladle

Ciricaite Wade, Egidija; AM Bruno

2016

Produced in a signed and numbered edition of 25. Produced for AMBruno Words project. "Matrixed layers of letter grids on transfer paper in a foiled sleeve." -- AMBruno Words leaflet.

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Ladle Slag, Old Hill (2)
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Ladle Slag, Old Hill (2)

Wadsworth, Edward (1889-1949)

1919

Frame Type - later; frame 24del43 for exhibition. The drawing is made up of two pieces of paper, the background and foreground on separate parts, joined in a diagonal top right to bottom left.

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Broadhead & Atkin, A. Pears, James Ward and Philip Ashberry promotional material

c.1838

Advertising Broadhead & Atkin, manufacturers of Britannia-metal, Sheffield, A. Pears, original inventor of the transparent soap and rouge and carmine manufacturer, London, James Ward, manufacturer of ...

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Cheesemaking: Straining the Curd
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Cheesemaking: Straining the Curd

Kissling, Werner (1895-1988)

July 1963

Mrs. M. E. Scott straining the curd of whey using a loose-woven cheesecloth and wooden bowl, in her home, West Stonesdale ( Swaledale). The cheesecloth covers the curd whilst the whey is manually sque...

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Survey of English Dialects recording in Sheffield, Yorkshire

Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)

21 Dec 1952

[Side 1] Sid describes process of making steel, talks about role of melter, explains terms incl. 'fracture' [= sample of metal for analysis] and need to 'slag off' [= remove e.g. sulphur and phosphoro...

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Papers relating to the antiquities and natural history of Yorkshire, etc. : read at the monthly meetings of the Society during 1925

Yorkshire Philosophical Society

1926

Reprinted from the Proceedings of the Yorkshire Philosophical Society. "Printed by order of the Council".

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