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Beck Hall, Malham
[1960s]
Board-mounted photograph of Beck Hall, Malham ( Airedale), a large stone dwelling house built in 1710 (and used as a hotel since the 1930s).
The Kellet Manuscript
Kellet, G R
[1970s]
The first file contains a photocopy of a manuscript by G. R. Kellet, being a memoir of growing up in Hunslet, Leeds, in the 1920s and 1930s. Although biographical, the manuscript includes descriptions...
The Farmer Cider-Maker in North and Central Somerset
Coleman, D N
1966
A thesis concerned with those Somerset cider-makers who combine cider-making with farming activities. The core of the study is the description of processes and equipment based on fieldwork carried out...
Lowry's Town has Gone
Dixon, Beverley Anne
1980
A study of Salford, comprising six chapters. The introductory chapter includes quotations from the artist L. S. Lowry, and comments by others on his representation of people and place. The second chap...
Sound Recording, Durham
Pickering, Michael J
5 April 1974
Professor Thomas Thacker, recorded at home in Durham; gives his recollections of Janet Bluntin the late 1920s/early 1930s; attitudes of villagers to her and vice versa; her family, folk song collectin...
Sound Recording, Oxfordshire
Pickering, Michael J
September/October 1973
Winnie Wyatt, recorded at home in Adderbury, talks about Janet Blunt's folk song collecting, and people's perceptions of her in Adderbury; musical afternoons/evenings at her house; singing in the loca...
Sound Recording, British Columbia (Canada)
Smith, Peter
7 January 1977
Lindsay Carter, recorded in New Denver [continued from tape LAVC/SRE/A865]; talks about working in a silver mine in Sandon, 4000 feet below ground; describes the mine, mining machinery, the placing of...
Sound Recordings, [West Yorkshire]
Bryon, Fiona
10 Jun 1980 - 15 Dec 1980
Jim Roche [continued from tape LAVC/SRE/A087] talks about his Trade Union involvement as a Shop Steward in the Leeds clothing industry: industrial and social problems of members; church involvement in...
Sound Recordings, Leicestershire, Lincolnshire and Cambridgeshire
Tilling, Philip M (1938-); Barry, Michael V (1935-)
1967
Edward Orton, recorded in Packington (Leicestershire); talks about building a haystack, and thatching it with wheat straw; farmhouses; curing bacon; livestock; selling land for housing; modern farming...
Sound Recordings, Lancashire
Taylor, Monica
[1970-1972]
Female informant [possibly the collector's mother], recorded in Haslingden ; talks about and recites a poem with the first line, At number one Bolton yard; sings 'Where oh where is my Norah?' [first l...
Sheep, Geese, Bees and Dogs
1957-1973
This file contains items relating largely to the care and management of sheep, but also items on geese, bees and dogs. This includes a typed copy of a letter on sheepshearing in Cumberland, from 'Will...
Sound Recordings, Salop, Cheshire and Staffordshire
Barry, Michael V (1935-)
1966
Mr. R. Morris, recorded in Llanymynech (Salop) on the 26 September 1966; talks about types of plough; waggoners; ploughing (matches); corn stacks; haymaking - use of horse mower, turning, making cocks...