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Total number of records: 7

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Collection groupCount
Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture6
Business Archives1

Top 10: Subject

SubjectCount
textile industry7
community life6
occupations6
buildings4
culture4
nature4
agriculture3
food3
home3
implements, utensils etc3

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Barry, Michael V (1935-)1
Bryon, Fiona1
Bull, Mrs. Walter1
Bull, Walter1
Croot, Mrs Oscar1
Croot, Oscar1
Edward Ripley and Son1
Fensome, Charles1
Higgenbottom1
Higginbottom, Mr Bernard1

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Earliest dateCount
From 18001
From 19006

Archive Item

Sound Recording, Buckinghamshire

Tilling, Philip M (1938-); Barry, Michael V (1935-)

1967

Francis Hutt, recorded in Horton; talks about building and thatching corn stacks; clipping hedges; market gardening; milk round with pony - first job, aged eleven; carters' wages; ploughing and horse ...

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Sound Recording, West Yorkshire

Morris, Patricia M

[September 1981]

Olive Metcalf, recorded at home in the Kirkstall area of Leeds; gives biographical details (born in the Bramley area of Leeds); recollections of baptism as a child; family; other Bramley families; Bra...

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Sound Recording, [West Yorkshire]

Bryon, Fiona

10 Dec 1980 - 15 Dec 1980

Jim Roche, recorded in his home, talks about the Leeds clothing industry in the 1920s/30s; starting work at John Baron's; describes contracting out, machinery, processes, hours of work, health (T.B. p...

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Sound Recordings, Derbyshire and Cheshire

Siporin, Rae Lee

May 1965

[Collector announcement]; Mr. E. Nealey, recorded in Burbage; provides biographical information; makes reference to cockfighting; an Endowed School; selling newspapers at the age of nine; aunt and unc...

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Archive File

Basket, Straw and Rope-Work

1960-1973

This file includes a photocopy of typed notes made by Rodney Cousins on basket-making, collected from H. Summers, basketmaker, Sutton-on-Trent (November 1969) and from Herbert Lloyd Johnes' 'The Baske...

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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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Archive Collection

Edward Ripley and Son, Business Archive

Edward Ripley and Son; Ripley, Henry William; Ripley, Edward

1831-1950

----------- Please see the attached Concordance.pdf to ascertain the relationship between the numeration of the records and the shelf numbers used by Special Collections. ----------- Large colle...

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