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Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture18
Maurice de Sausmarez Archive1

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Brunk, Wille3
Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)2
Hull, Wally2
Tammivaara, Irmeli2
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Baker, Charles Albert1
Barber, Maud1
Bauldie, J S1
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K.A. Robertson sketches

c. 1937-1958

Undated pencil, ink and watercolour sketches on paper and tracing paper by K.A. Robertson, including studies of African children and adults, animals, biblical scenes, human and animal anatomy, vehicle...

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The New estate, or, The young travellers in Wales and Ireland

Rickerby, Joseph; Harvey & Darton (London, England)

1831

Publisher's advertisements follow text.

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Mounting Stone
Archive Item

Mounting Stone

Brunk, Wille

February 1967

Mounting stone outside the Bay Horse Inn, Great Broughton (North Yorkshire). Mounted on Photo File card with LAVC/PHO/P0342 and LAVC/PHO/P0343. Ms. catalogue details in the hand of Wille Brunk.

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Mounting Stone
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Mounting Stone

Brunk, Wille

February 1967

Mounting stone outside the Bay Horse Inn, Great Broughton (North Yorkshire). Mounted on Photo File card with LAVC/PHO/P0341 and LAVC/PHO/P0343. Ms. catalogue details in the hand of Wille Brunk.

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Mounting Stone
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Mounting Stone

Brunk, Wille

February 1967

Mounting stone outside the Bay Horse Inn, Great Broughton (North Yorkshire). Mounted on Photo File card with LAVC/PHO/P0341 and LAVC/PHO/P0342. Ms. catalogue details in the hand of Wille Brunk.

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Survey of English Dialects recording in Youlgreave, Derbyshire

Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)

02 Dec 1955

[Side 1] Thomas tells anecdote about woman who complained about his use of 'bluff' [= blinkers] and chain on bull, describes occasion when she tried to obstruct him driving sheep through village. [Sid...

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"Gypsy Camp"

Hucklebridge, John

[1970s]

Copy of a photograph taken in 1960, of a temporary Gypsy Traveller encampment on a roadside near Glastonbury (Somerset). Two bowed caravans, and two trailer carts are pulled up on the verge. A woman s...

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Sound Recordings, Stockton-on-Tees

Schrut, Judith Lynne

23 January 1977

Margaret Postgate, Trevor Postgate and George Robinson (all of Thornaby) discuss domestic crafts - dressmaking, sewing, knitting, quilt-making, embroidery, enamelling, horticulture, bee-keeping. [Tr. ...

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"Lappish Caravan"

March 1965

Display showing a Sami reindeer caravan, or rajd, at the Nordiska Museet in Stockholm (Sweden). The display shows a dog and a Sami woman on foot, leading 2 reindeers.

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Sound Recordings, Lancashire

Bauldie, J S

1969

Interviews with ex-coalminers from Abram, Hindley, Ashton-in-Makerfield and Shevington. Topics covered include work and leisure activities: whippets; practical jokes; beliefs; games (including Piggy, ...

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Sound Recordings, North Lincolnshire

Haldenby, Cynthia

August 1958

George Bell, recorded at Winteringham; talks about his working life; being in service, starting farm work at the age of fifteen; working with horses at Keelby Grange (second to the Waggoner); job of W...

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Sound Recording, Hampshire

Wakelin, Martyn F

1964

Charles Sheppard, recorded in Bishop's Sutton; talks about working with pigs; rook starving [scaring] after the corn sown; scarecrows; service in the Rifle Brigade during World War One, in France; ret...

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