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Tales from the Pump Room : nine hundred years of Bath : the place, its people and its gossip
Hinde, Thomas (1926-2014); Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019)
1988
pt. 1 : Tales of the Past : Prince Bladud; Mediaeval Bath [medieval] ; Doctors of earlier times ; Early royal visitors ; The battle of Lansdowne Hil ; Pepys and his family visit 'the Bath' ; Queen Ann...
Harvest Supper Setting
[1960s]
Display showing a room decorated for a Wolds harvest supper, at an unidentified Yorkshire museum. The scene shows a long table and benches set for at least twelve people, with candles, jugs, bread, pi...
The manners, lawes, and customes of all nations
Boemus, Joannes (1485-1535)
1611
Signatures: [par.]⁴; A-B⁴; C-2N⁸; ([par.]1 verso, [par.]2 verso blank).
The Mantelpiece
Cane, Rosemary
1971
A dissertation examining the question of what some people keep on their mantelpieces - which objects are placed there, and why - and to what extent the owners are conscious of the mantelpiece as a fea...
The Parkers at Saltram, 1769-89 : everyday life in an eighteenth-century house
Fletcher, Ronald; Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019)
1970
Based on television programmes shown on the BBC. Illustrations on lining papers. Includes bibliographical references (pages 210-213) and index.
Farmworker in Sunday Best
[1970s]
Copy of a photograph taken in the early 20th century of farmworker, Mr. Masterman, in his Sunday best, standing in the living room of a house in Thorngumbald (East Riding of Yorkshire). His best cloth...
Christmas Decorations
December 1974
Room decorated for Christmas, at a dwelling house in Vänersborg (Alvsborgs Lan, Sweden). The decorations include a Christmas tree decorated with candles, glass balls and tinsel. Under the tree are Ch...
Sound Recordings, Suffolk
Dunn, Ginette
October 1974
Lenny Savage, recorded at home in Snape on the 1 October 1974; talks about the musician Jimmy Meadows [LS's brother-in-law]; Mrs. Savage's childhood on a dairy farm; the singer Velvet Brightwell [fath...
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...
Sound Recordings, Lancashire
Monaghan, Ann M
1973
Male [? Mr. Ashton], recorded in Preston [continued from tape A020], talks about the organisation of the 1972 Preston Guild - Local Government involvement, pre-publicity lectures, the representation o...
Sound Recordings, Devon
Panheinen, Ossi
[1970]
Mr. Layzell of Branscombe, recorded whilst he works in his blacksmith's smithy [machinery noise throughout]; relates the history of the building; working as a smith since 1911; father a smith in the s...
Sound Recording, Suffolk
Dunn, Ginette
12 September 1974
Horace White, recorded at home in Spexhall; talks about the village pub; the Suffolk feudal system; World War One; working life, including fishing in Fraserburgh (Aberdeenshire), local council in Suff...