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Total number of records: 127

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Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture123
Brotherton Collection1
Maurice de Sausmarez Archive1
Novello Cowden Clarke Collection1
Ripon Cathedral1

Top 10: Subject

SubjectCount
buildings108
culture89
community life76
occupations57
english language - dialects45
manners and customs39
architecture38
communication37
dwellings36
human settlements35

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Walton, James5
Sanderson, Stewart (1924-)4
Lloyd Weedon, Trevor2
Taylor, Alfred2
Ashton, John1
Babbidge, P A1
Battersby, Pauline1
Brunk, Wille1
Brunskill, Ronald W1
Buckland, Theresa Jill1

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From 18002
From 1900125

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Up to 1999125

Archive File

Report on library buildings in the United States and Canada made by Dr Richard Offor for the Library Association, based on a tour of North America in 1937

Offor, Richard (1882-1964)

1938

Contains: (1) Manuscript version (103 ff.); (2) Author's final copy. Carbon copy of typescript, with manuscript annotations and additions (112 ff. [numbered 1-95, but with several additional sheets in...

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Illustrations of churches in the undivided Diocese of Ripon, with an index.

c.1836-1888

Comprises illustrations of most of the ancient churches and chapels and many of the modern ones in the undivided diocese, as re-constituted in 1836. The churches and chapels in question are listed in ...

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Conistone Survey of Vernacular Architecture

1971

This file contains items relating to a survey of vernacular architecture around Conistone( Wharfedale), undertaken by students on the Museums Association Diploma Curatorial Course in Folk Life and Loc...

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Photograph of Cottages in Laughton en le Morthen

[1970s]

Group of cottages in the village of Laughton en le Morthen, near Rotherham.

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A Survey of Urban Terrace Housing in Harehills, Leeds

Shirley, Lindsey

1975

A factual survey of the external features of the houses and gardens within part of the Harehills area of north-east Leeds . In addition to collecting and documenting this survey material, further fiel...

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1956

1956

Specification of work proposed to be carried out at Maurice de Sausmarez's home, 16 Leaside Avenue, London, by Evans & Co., including the cleaning and painting of gutters and pipes, repairs to the sas...

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Recording English Vernacular Architecture

Brunskill, Ronald W

[ca. 1970]

This file contains multiple copies of recording sheets developed by R.W. Brunksill for recording the details of various types of English vernacular architecture, and found in his 'Illustrated Handbook...

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The Irish Crofter

Lloyd Weedon, Trevor

[1970s]

This file contains a photocopy of an ms. paper ([8] leaves) on the life and work of Irish crofters in Donegal. This includes descriptions of a crofter's cottage, crops and cultivation, the animals and...

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Photographs of Yorkshire Vernacular Architecture

[1960-1979]

These photographs show a variety of Yorkshiredomestic houses and agricultural barns, and include both general exterior views, and interior and exterior views of particular architectural features. All ...

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Loans Register

1977-1983

This small binder originally had the label Loans Register. For the use of Mr. Tony Green only sellotaped to its front [part has come away and is now held inside the binder]. It contains typed forms be...

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Kersey Illustration

[ca. 1938]

Colour illustration of the village of Kersey (Survey of English Dialects (SED) location 22 Sf 5), reprinted from H. Munro Cautley's 'Suffolk Churches and Their Treasures', (Ipswich: Adlard, 1937).

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Photographs of Yorkshire Vernacular Architecture

[1960s-1970s]

These photographs show a variety of Yorkshirehouses, out buildings, industrial buildings and agricultural barns, and include both general exterior views, and interior and exterior views of particular ...

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