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Dales Crafts and Craftsmen

Walton, James

[1930s-1940s]

Articles written by James Walton on the craftsmen of the Yorkshire Dales, for the series 'Dales Crafts and Craftsmen' in 'The Yorkshire Dalesman', extracted and pasted into a hard-backed scrapbook. Th...

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Country Crafts and Craftsmen

Walton, James

1941

This volume contains a series of articles written by James Walton for 'The Schoolmasters and Woman Teacher's Chronicle' (January-May 1941). The first in the series states the articles' intention as a ...

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Rural Life Around Huddersfield

Walton, James

1933-1938

Articles written by James Walton for a series on rural life around Huddersfield, and local tales and sayings, published in the 'Huddersfield Weekly Examiner' in 1933 and 1938 respectively. The geograp...

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Decadent Local Industries: Pottery and Quarrying

Walton, James

1938

This volume contains two articles written by James Walton for the 'Some Decadent Local Industries' series of articles published in the 'Transactions of the Halifax Antiquarian Society' (March 1938). T...

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Collected Articles on Yorkshire Crafts and Craftsmen. Etc.

Walton, James

1930-1949

This file contains a large number of articles collected, and largely written, by James Walton, most of which have been pasted into hard-backed scrapbooks. The articles were grouped by subject matter...

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Horn-blowing Customs

Walton, James

1938-1939

This file contains items written and collected by James Walton on horn-blowing customs, mostly relating to Yorkshire. This includes an article by Walton on horn-blowing published in the 'Newcastle Wee...

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Gates, Walls and Fields

Walton, James

1938-1949

This volume contains pasted-in articles from 'Country Life', 'The Illustrated Carpenter and Builder', 'Yorkshire Evening Post' and the 'Yorkshire Dalesman', some with ms. annotations, and black and wh...

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Your Village

Walton, James

1939

This volume contains articles written by James Walton for the 'Your Village' series of articles published in the 'Halifax Courier and Guardian' (March-June 1939). The series consists of historical acc...

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Stone Crafts

Walton, James

1940-1945

This volume consists of a number of articles written by James Walton for 'The Quarry Manager's Journal', all relating to quarrying and stonework, and many with a Yorkshire bias. This includes articles...

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Local Woodcrafts

Walton, James

1940

Article on the history of woodcrafts in the Halifax/ Calderdale area, published in the 'Transactions of the Halifax Antiquarian Society' (dated 5 October 1940). Includes sections on the woods themselv...

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