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Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture398
Godfrey Bingley Photographic Archive153
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Kissling, Werner (1895-1988)160
Brunk, Wille29
Bingley, Godfrey (1842-1927)21
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Quarried Stone
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Quarried Stone

Sykes, Donald Richard

[Mid 1950s-1960s]

Quarried stone at Crosland Hill quarry (West Yorkshire). The image was created by Donald Sykes for inclusion in his dissertation on the dialect of Crosland Hill Quarries.

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Clint quarry

19th century

Small plan of Clint Rock [enlarged from White's survey of the Ribblesdale estate], with calculations

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Rosemill Quarry
Archive Item

Rosemill Quarry

Bingley, Godfrey (1842-1927)

30/Jul/1891

Photograph taken near Leoch, Angus

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Archive Print Item

The contemplative quarry

Wickham, Anna (1884-1947); Poetry Bookshop

1915

In verse.

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Archive Print Item

The quest and the quarry

Read, Sir Herbert Edward (1893-1968); Rome-New York Art Foundation

[1961]

English, Italian or French.

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Quarry Workers

[1970s]

Copy of a photograph dating from the early-20th century, of quarry workers sorting and dressing excavated stone in a work shed at a quarry at an unidentified location.

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Quarry Head
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Quarry Head

[1970s]

Copy of a photograph dating from the early-20th century, of a view looking across a body of water towards the head of a quarry shaft and work sheds at an unidentified location. Hauling machinery(?), s...

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