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manners and customs236
social life and customs236
community life158
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holidays92
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Kissling, Werner (1895-1988)27
Dunn, Ginette16
Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)13
Horner, Mr M.12
Tammivaara, Irmeli12
Sullivan, Keith Frederick10
Hunter, Robert9
Pickering, Michael J7
Sanderson, Stewart (1924-)6
Bell, Brigid M5
Greeting Card Detail
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Greeting Card Detail

[1970s]

Close-up of a greeting card design, showing an illustration a village church and houses, and bells.

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Greeting Card Detail
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Greeting Card Detail

[1970s]

Close-up of a greeting card design, showing an illustration of two bells tied with ribbon.

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Photographic Prints
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Photographic Prints

Feb 1974

The Duchess of Kent with Stewart Sanderson (on the left) and Harold Orton (on the right) taken during the Duchess's visit to the Institute of Dialect and Folk Life Studies in February 1974. The Duches...

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Photographic Prints
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Photographic Prints

c.1962-c.1984

Taken at the Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture Conference, 19 March 2005, entitled "Dialect and Folk Life Studies in Britain: The LAVC in its Context". Image shows the original members of the Lingui...

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Boy with Guy
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Boy with Guy

October 1965

Boy with a guy made for Guy Fawkes Night, outside the Packhorse pub on Woodhouse Lane, Leeds (West Yorkshire). This picture was taken during pub opening hours, the boy collecting money (Penny for the ...

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Maypole
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Maypole

Sanderson, Stewart (1924-)

1964

Maypole on the village green at Aldeburgh (Suffolk). Mounted on Photo File card.

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Maypole
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Maypole

Sanderson, Stewart (1924-)

1964

Maypole on the village green at Aldeburgh (Suffolk). Unmounted.

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"Gypsy Family"

Hucklebridge, John

[1970s]

Copy of a photograph taken ca. 1957, of a Gypsy Traveller family (two parents, and two children) making a fire by the roadside at Patchway, Gloucestershire. A basket lies on the ground beside the moth...

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Decorated Egg

[1960s]

A hard-boiled, decorated egg, coloured with a food-based(?) red/pink dye. The shell is patterned with stencils made from small fern leaves and wild flowers.

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Sound Recording, Greater Manchester

Dixon, Beverley Anne

4 March 1979

[Collector announcement]; collector's parents, recorded in Flixton; discussion of Christmas traditions, comparing past and present; cards and presents, decorations; a typical Christmas Day - food, tel...

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Sound Recording, Surrey

Bell, Brigid M

Jul 23 1979

Bell ringing practise session in Send [preceded by general conversation as the ringers assemble]. Various changes, interspersed with conversation during breaks. Recorded 23 July 1979.

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Sound Recording, Surrey

Bell, Brigid M

Jul 30 1979

[Collector's announcement: name of collector, date of interviews.] [Tr. 4] Interview with Send bell ringers - length of service, motivation and competition. Principal informant is the Tower Captain....

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