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C: Communications and Trade
1963-1976
This series contains items relating to communications by land and sea, including horse-drawn vehicles; and trading and dealing, including fairs and markets.
Trade
1964-1976
This subseries contains items relating to different aspects of trade. The subject matter largely includes trading and dealing, and fairs and markets. Alongside general items relating to trade, the sub...
Loughborough Market
Holt, Rachel A
1971
A study of Loughborough Market, comprising ten chapters and nine appendices. The chapters offer general comments on markets, the population of Leicestershire, descriptions of Loughborough Market from ...
Rochdale Market: Its History and Customs
Randle, Olivia Susan
1971
A study of Rochdale Market, comprising chapters giving historical background information, descriptions of the market and its administration in 1971, childhood in Rochdale at the turn of the twentieth ...
Smithfield Wholesale Fruit and Vegetable Market, Manchester
Sutton, Carole
1971
A study of Smithfield Market in Manchester, with sections on the production and transmission of goods to the wholesaler, imported produce, the ports and importers, the Liverpool auctions, home grown p...
Street Cries of London
Beels, Gillian Rosemary
1972
A study of the cries of London street traders, divided into two parts. The first traces the history and development of street cries, whilst the second considers the situation existing in 1972. The lat...
Trade - General
1964-1976
This file contains items relating to aspects of trading, including a typed paper by Ted Spiegel on Handslag, or striking a bargain, by farmers ([2] leaves); a typed extract listing bad luck beliefs in...
Animal Sports
1972-1973
This file contains J. N. P. Watson's article, 'Lakeland's Oldest Hunt', on the Melbreak Hunt, extracted from 'Country Life' (19 October 1972), pp. 944-945; and a photocopy of a cutting on the bull rin...
The Phonology of the Dialect of Spitalfields in the London Borough of Stepney
Goldsack, Beryl
1962
A study of the dialect spoken in the Spitalfields area of the London borough of Stepney, based on data collected from three local informants, interviewed over Easter 1961.
Leeds City Market
Hermansson, Nana
1969
This file contains items relating to Nana Hermansson's research into Leeds City Market and market traders. This includes ms. and typed transcripts of a tape recorded interview with Harry Hudson, a sta...
Auctions
1967-1972
This file contains items relating to auctions and auction houses, and includes Stella Margetson's article on old London auction rooms, extracted from 'Country Life' (16 November 1967), pp. 1267-1270; ...
The supply response of retail trading services to urban population growth, a paper by Rowena M. Lawson for [the] Conference on the Development of African trade and markets in West Africa, Abidjan, 1969
Lawson, Rowena Mary
1969
Typescript duplicated. Original foliation incomplete