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Bridal Tapestry (Norway)
January 1965
Bridal tapestry from Drivstua (Norway), dating to around 1600. The tapestry is double-woven in frieze form, and is made up of four pieces sewn together. It is heavily patterned with human figures and ...
Tapestry (Norway)
January 1965
Fragment of tapestry, or Baldisholteppet, from Oseberg (Norway). The tapestry is brightly coloured and decorated with figures on horseback, and a bearded figure with birds ( St. Francis of Assisi?). T...
Survey of English Dialects recording in Skelmanthorpe, Yorkshire
Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)
25 Oct 1952
[Side 1] Wilsey tells anecdote about seeing apparition that turned out to be woman in nightdress looking for lost cat, recalls working in coal mine from age of twelve, describes long hours, harsh work...
Henry Burston
[1970s]
Copy of a photograph taken in the early 20th century of Henry Burston of Horsham (Sussex). Mr. Burston was a cobbler, but was also noted as a bellringer and singer, as indicated in the sign next to hi...
Dyed Egg
Calvert, Valerie E
[1961-1962]
Decorated pasche egg dyed in onion skins, on a wooden board in a house in Workington (Cumbria).
Dressing-Up the Bride
Buckland, Theresa Jill
November 1976
Outfit worn by Kathleen Evans, a tea factory worker from Crewe (Cheshire), when her workmates dressed her up on her last day of work before her wedding. In the photograph, the outfit is worn by the br...
Glimpses of Industrial Bradford
Fieldhouse, Elizabeth Mary
1972
A study comprising six sections. The Introduction presents a history of the woollen and worsted industries, whilst the second section outlines phases in industrial development, from the guild and dome...
A Grammar of the Dialect of Addingham in the West Riding of Yorkshire
Moody, Frederick William
1950
A study of the dialect spoken in Addingham and its immediate neighbourhood in the late 1940s, based on fieldwork data collected from eight principal informants. An Introduction presents information on...
Sound Recording, West Yorkshire
Morris, Patricia M
July 1981
Lily Gaunt, recorded at home in the Bramley area of Leeds; gives biographical information; talks about her family; parents' occupations; her childhood home; education; starting mill work aged fourteen...
Sound Recordings, [West Yorkshire]
McKelvie, Donald
[1960-1963]
Male informant [location not known] talks about the preparation, valuation and sale of sheepskins at a hide and skin market; the preparation of skin by fellmongers; explains the process of separating ...
Sound Recording, [West Yorkshire]
Bryon, Fiona
10 Dec 1980 - 15 Dec 1980
Jim Roche, recorded in his home, talks about the Leeds clothing industry in the 1920s/30s; starting work at John Baron's; describes contracting out, machinery, processes, hours of work, health (T.B. p...
Dales Kitchen
Unno, Bertrand
[1960s]
Display of Dales furniture, in the setting of an old Dales kitchen, at an unidentified Yorkshire museum. The furniture includes wooden chairs, a set table, a spinning wheel, a grandfather clock, shelv...