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Broad-Wheeled Sussex Waggon Diagram
Philpot, Harold E
1952-1954
Blueprint annotated and labelled diagram, 'The Broad Wheeled Sussex Waggon as Used in the Counties Sussex and Kent, Southern England, circa 1700-1930'. The diagrams are based on a wagon built by A. K....
Swedish Peasant Carriage
March 1965
Peasant carriage from the exhibition of Peasant Art and Handicraft at the Nordiska Museet in Stockholm (Sweden). In front of the carriage and in the background are a corner cupboard and some textiles....
Sound Recording, [West Yorkshire]
Metcalfe, Robert
[1970s]
Stewart Sanderson [?recorded in Leeds] talks about motoring folklore; his interest; Rolls Royce and Volkswagen examples; friend-of-a-friend tales and truth; collecting examples; the study of oral trad...
"Gypsy Caravans"
Hartley, Dorothy
[1970s]
Copy of a photograph taken ca. 1920 of a group of Gypsy Travellers standing with horse-drawn caravans, at an unknown (English) location. Mounted on Photo File card.
Stagecoach
[1970s]
Photographic postcard from the West Yorkshire Folk Museum, Shibden Hall, Halifax. The postcard shows a stagecoach drawn by a team of four horses, which dates from around 1820. Men and women in period ...
Lister Post-Chaise
[1970s]
Photographic postcard from the West Yorkshire Folk Museum, Shibden Hall, Halifax. The postcard shows a Lister post-chaise dating from around 1725. The carriage is drawn by a team of two horses. The dr...
Cart Diagrams
Brears, Peter C D
[1970s]
Printed scale illustrations of the Halifax Heck Cart and the Lister Chaise (made for James Lister of Shibden Hall), shaded in coloured pencil to match the descriptions of the carts printed on the vers...
"Gypsy Caravans"
[1970s]
Copy of a photograph taken by Dorothy Hartley, ca. 1920 of Gypsy Travellers standing with horse-drawn caravans, at an unknown (English) location.
"Gypsy Caravans"
[1970s]
Copy of a photograph taken by Dorothy Hartley, ca. 1920, of Gypsy Travellers standing with horse-drawn caravans, at an unknown (English) location.
Dales Pony
Kissling, Werner (1895-1988)
July 1966
Informant R. L. Peacock with thoroughbred modern Dales working pony, Scarhouse Farm, Muker ( Swaledale). Mounted on Photo File card. Also mounted on the card is a newspaper cutting from the 'Northern ...
"Gypsy Family"
Hartley, Dorothy
[1970s]
Copy of a photograph taken ca. 1920 of a Gypsy Traveller family sitting outside their caravan in an unknown (English) location. The family group consists of two parents, five children and a baby, but ...
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 ...