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Total number of records: 91

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community life56
play51
games47
culture43
sports30
english language - dialects28
persons21
manners and customs19
folk music13
folklore13

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Kissling, Werner (1895-1988)43
Scott, William6
Olayemi, Rufus V K4
Latham-Thorpe, Jane Elizabeth3
Sanderson, Stewart (1924-)3
Taylor, Mr3
Anderson, Peter M2
Bird, Elizabeth2
Webber, M R2
Bickerdike, E1
Haymaking: Hay Rakes
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Haymaking: Hay Rakes

[1970s]

Family of 5 (2 adult males, 2 adult women, and 1 boy) using hay rakes to gather cut hay in a field at an unidentified location, probably in the Yorkshire Dales.

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Haymaking: Hay Rake
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Haymaking: Hay Rake

[1970s]

Family(?) (3 adult males and 3 adult females) working in a line using hay rakes to gather the hay crop in a field at an unidentified location. Sheep dog in foreground to the left.

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Pace Eggers, West Yorkshire
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Pace Eggers, West Yorkshire

Taylor, Mr

[1960s]

Copy of a photograph of (adult) pace eggers performing at an unidentified location, probably in West Yorkshire. The whole cast is present in this photograph, and all are in costume.

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Pace Eggers, West Yorkshire
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Pace Eggers, West Yorkshire

Taylor, Mr

[1960s]

Copy of a photograph of (adult) pace eggers performing at an unidentified location, probably in West Yorkshire. Two costumed characters [?St. George and Black Prince].

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Pace Eggers, West Yorkshire
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Pace Eggers, West Yorkshire

Taylor, Mr

[1960s]

Copy of a photograph of (adult) pace eggers performing at an unidentified location, probably in West Yorkshire. Two costumed characters [?St. George and Black Prince].

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Salmon Coble: Stern Post
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Salmon Coble: Stern Post

Sanderson, Stewart (1924-)

1959

Adult male holding the haze, or stern post, of salmon coble at a boatbuilder's yard in Tweedmouth (Northumberland).

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Quoits
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Quoits

Kissling, Werner (1895-1988)

June-August 1964

Adult male playing quoits on a grass verge by the road at Castle Bolton ( Wensleydale). The man is about to throw a quoit. Other adult males from the village sit on a bench behind the man (a good vant...

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Sound Recordings, Nigeria

Olayemi, Rufus V K

[1960s]

Adult male informants, recorded in Nigeria, singing/chanting Nigerian folk tales, with listeners'/audience responses and participation. Tales related in Ekiti, an Ado sub-dialect.

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Quoits
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Quoits

Kissling, Werner (1895-1988)

[1960s]

Two adult males playing quoits on the village green at Keld ( Swaledale). One of the men is preparing to throw a quoit. Mounted on Photo File card.

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Sound Recordings, Nigeria

Olayemi, Rufus V K

[1960s]

Adult male and child informants, recorded in Nigeria, singing/chanting Nigerian folk tales, with listeners'/audience responses and participation. Tales told in the Egba, Odeda, Egbado, Anago and Awori...

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Quoits
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Quoits

Kissling, Werner (1895-1988)

June-August 1964

Two adult males playing quoits on a grass verge by the road at Castle Bolton ( Wensleydale). One of the men has just thrown a quoit. Other adult males from the village, and two teenage boys, sit on a ...

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Basement Dwellers
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Basement Dwellers

[1970s]

Copy of a photograph dating from the late-19th/early-20th century, of two adult females, three girls and one boy [?a family] outside a basement dwelling at an unidentified (English) location. The door...

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