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People Gathered for Sheep Washing
[1960s]
Copy of a photograph taken in the late 19th century or early 20th century, of a crowd gathered to watch sheep washing on Muker Beck ( Swaledale). The crowd includes men, women and children. Carts visi...
Thorpe Chapel
Sanderson, Stewart (1924-)
1965
The chapel at Thorpe ( Wharfedale). The building includes a dovecote on the gable end.
Accordion Player and Monkey
[1970s]
Copy of a photograph dating from the late-19th/early-20th century, of a man playing the accordion in the street at an unidentified location. The man has a monkey, which is attached to him by a long le...
Horse-Head Carvings
Sanderson, Stewart (1924-)
December 1974
Wooden horse-head carvings on the front of a wooden store shed, exhibited at the open-air Village Museum in Bucharest. The store shed is a small construction, set into the ground, with a sloped rood a...
Family with Horse and Cart
[1970s]
Copy of a photograph dating from the late-19th/early-20th century, of a family (mother, father and four girls) standing next to a horse and cart in a street of stone dwelling houses, at an unidentifie...
A Study of the Foundation Legend of Holyrood Abbey, Edinburgh, and Related Motifs
Rosling, Jean
1983
M.A. dissertation which examines the foundation legend of Holyrood Abbey in Edinburgh ( 'Chronicon anglo-scoticum') and analogous miraculous stag/deerhunt/church founding legends. The Introduction inc...
Miscellaneous Contact Prints
[1960s]
Sheet of contact prints with images of shepherds' crooks and their manufacture (14); a fish on a chopping board (1); and a ruined stone church and old churchyard, including LAVC/PHO/P2141-2142 (3). Th...
Conistone Survey Contact Prints: B
July 1971
Contact prints of photographs taken during a Survey of Vernacular Architecture around Conistone (Wharfedale), undertaken by students on the Museums Association Diploma Curatorial Course in Folk Life a...
Sound Recording, Oxfordshire
Pickering, Michael J
1973
BBC Radio Oxford outside broadcast programme, 'Hello Adderbury', recorded in Adderbury. The programme covers local government, including an interview with the clerk to the Parish Council who explains ...
Sound Recording, Suffolk
Dunn, Ginette
11 September 1974
Priscilla Savage, recorded at home in Blaxhall; talks about the village Youth Hostel; her parents and siblings; food, diet and bread baking; own family and children; working in service; childhood in L...
Trams, Railways and Boats
1967-1973
This file contains items on forms of travel, including James Edward Holroyd's article on tramcars, extracted from 'Country Life' (7 December 1967), p. 1490; an ms. postcard from Jeremy Godwin to Stewa...
Conistone Survey Contact Prints: I
July 1971
Contact prints of photographs taken during a Survey of Vernacular Architecture around Conistone ( Wharfedale), undertaken by students on the Museums Association Diploma Curatorial Course in Folk Life ...