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Bull, Walter1

Archive File

Dry Stone Dwellings

1970

This file contains 2 articles extracted from 'Country Life' magazine, both reader's letters accompanied by illustrations of stone dwellings. Includes clocháns on the Dingle Peninsula, County Kerry, a...

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Farm Buildings at Wadworth
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Farm Buildings at Wadworth

[1960s]

Board-mounted photograph of a stone farm buildings at Wadworth (near Doncaster, South Yorkshire). The buildings are situated around a small farmyard. Three elderly ladies are sitting on a bench in the...

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No. 10 Downing Street : the story of a house

Jones, Christopher (1928-); Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019)

1985

Includes bibliographical references (page 184-185) and index.

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Archive File

Sussex Recipes

Lister, Sue

1967

A study of Sussex recipes, based on both printed sources and interviews with local people. The introductory section provides some historical background, descriptions of utensils, an ice house and a ba...

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Sound Recording, [West Yorkshire]

Bryon, Fiona

18 December 1980

Mrs. Blackburn talks about her work in the Leeds tailoring industry: Parents' occupations; sewing from childhood; first job - ladies' dress factory in Woodhouse Lane - machinist, female boss; next job...

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Sound Recording, West Yorkshire

Morris, Patricia M

[September 1981]

Olive Metcalf, recorded at home in the Kirkstall area of Leeds; talks about food shopping for a large family; gardening and vegetable growing; breakfast; dinners (week's menu); offal/meat products; le...

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Sound Recordings, Suffolk

Dunn, Ginette

1975

George Bennett[?recorded at home in Snape in 1975]. His ?wife/?sister is also present. Sings 'Little Jimmy Tiddler', ''Mid Shot and Shell' [words indistinct], 'I Have a Saviour'; information on 'Littl...

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Courtship and Marriage; Death and Funerals

1962-1980

This file contains items on marriage customs, death and funeral customs and beliefs, and ghosts. This includes ms. and typed correspondence between R. W. Crosland and Tony Green on the custom of biddi...

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Sound Recordings, Shropshire

Hubbard, Wendy E

October-November 1958

[Collector announcement]; William Moore, [?recorded in Albrighton (Shropshire)], talks about his father's haulage business; harvesting; the weather; his father; a motorbike; an anecdote about retrievi...

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Sound Recordings, Gloucestershire and Oxfordshire

Baldwin, John R

1969

George Dawes [Dusty Dawes], recorded at home in Meysey Hampton; discusses the chorus to the songs 'Treat My Daughter Kindly' and 'Down in the Fields Where the Buttercups Do Grow'; talks about [?step/?...

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Sound Recordings, Bedfordshire

Shaw, David H

1960-1961

Oscar Croot and Mrs. Oscar Croot, recorded in Riseley in 1960; Mr. Croot describes making leaded windows - transporting and fitting, geographical area covered, costs and estimates of work; describes t...

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Sound Recordings, Oxfordshire, Gloucestershire and Wiltshire

Baldwin, John R

1968-1969

Mrs. D. Brooks and Mr. Coombs [?brother and sister], recorded in Shipton-under-Wychwood in 1968. Mrs. Brooks describes her husband playing a horse game. [Tr. 1] Mr. Coombs sings 'The Old Leather Bri...

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