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Total number of records: 119

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community life119
vehicles119
culture118
english language - dialects118
occupations111
agriculture97
nature93
animals92
food84
implements, utensils etc82

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Kissling, Werner (1895-1988)68
Fothergill, George William45
Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)11
Fothergill, Mrs11
Pyne, William Henry (1769-1843)4
Wakelin, Martyn F4
Hodgson, John Oswald3
Houck, Charles L3
Orton, Harold (1898-1975)3
Panheinen, Ossi3
French Language Survey: Farm Cart Terminology
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French Language Survey: Farm Cart Terminology

[1960s-mid-1970s]

Copy of a page from a published French language survey (unidentified), illustrating items 839 and 840 relating to the hitching and unhitching of wagons/farm carts drawn by draft animals. Each item is ...

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Canal Culture: Life and Traditions on the Midlands Canal System

Douglas, Peter A

1965

A study of the work and play traditions of people living and working on canals, with particular reference to the Grand Union Canal in Northamptonshire. Fieldwork was conducted in and around the villag...

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Sound Recording, North Yorkshire

Baines, H

1960

Albert Baines [?wife also present; with male and female questioners], recorded in Ripon; describes his work as a wheelwright in Great Ayton and Stockton [?on Tees]; apprenticeship in Ripon, c. 1900; d...

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SED Phonological Map: Spokes
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SED Phonological Map: Spokes

Orton, Harold (1898-1975)

[Mid 1960s-mid 1970s]

Experimental printed phonological map, completed in ms., for SED question I.9.6, Spokes, mapping the various vowel forms found in Northern Counties responses. The map was compiled by Harold Orton, and...

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Sound Recording, Glamorgan

Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)

1 December 1966

Mr. W. Davies, recorded in Mumbles; talks about deep-sea fishing; service in the Navy during World War One; work as a fisherman, including dredging for oysters (colours, types, sold in Whitstable); se...

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"Gypsies: General"

1966-1975

This file contains two photocopies of Stewart Sanderson's typed 'Gypsy Bibliography' (August 1974); mounted magazine and newspaper cuttings from 'Country Life', 'The Countryman' and the 'Northumberlan...

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Suffolk Punch Lithograph

[1970s]

Photograph of a lithograph of a Suffolk Punch stallion. The lithograph is by William Nicholson from a painting by Mr. Shiels, and appears in David Low's 'The Breeds of the Domestic Animals of the Brit...

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Haymaking: Horse Rake
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Haymaking: Horse Rake

Kissling, Werner (1895-1988)

1966

Farmer driving horse-drawn hay rake in field near Muker ( Swaledale). Mounted on Photo File card with LAVC/PHO/P1033.

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Haymaking: Horse Rake
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Haymaking: Horse Rake

Kissling, Werner (1895-1988)

1966

Farmer driving horse-drawn hay rake in field near Muker ( Swaledale). Mounted on Photo File card with LAVC/PHO/P1032.

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Haymaking: Single Horse Mower
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Haymaking: Single Horse Mower

Kissling, Werner (1895-1988)

July 1962

Farmer cutting hay using a mower pulled by a single horse, in Widdale ( Wensleydale). Mounted on Photo File card with LAVC/PHO/P1040. With typed note.

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Haymaking: Single Horse Mower
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Haymaking: Single Horse Mower

Kissling, Werner (1895-1988)

July 1962

Farmer cutting hay using a mower pulled by a single horse, in Widdale ( Wensleydale). Mounted on Photo File card with LAVC/PHO/P1039. With typed note.

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Haymaking: Wooden Hay Sweep.

Kissling, Werner (1895-1988)

July 1962

Draft horse and wooden hay sweep in a field at Cowgill ( Dentdale). Mounted on Photo File card with LAVC/PHO/P1056. Informant: Mr. Fothergill. With typed note.

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