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Total number of records: 26

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Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture16
John Evan Bedford Library of Furniture History2
Brotherton Collection1

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house furnishings26
home16
occupations16
food15
baked products11
food industry and trade10
implements, utensils etc10
community life7
nature7
agriculture6

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Feather, Leslie9
Mallinson, J Mrs9
Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019)8
Barry, Michael V (1935-)2
Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)2
Parry, David (1937-)2
William Angus & Co, London2
41 Horton Grange Road (Bradford, England)1
Bragbrook, Walter1
Braybrook1

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The Seuffert legacy : New Zealand colonial master craftsmen : the craft of Anton Seuffert & his sons William, Albert and Carl

Peet, Brian; Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019)

2008

Includes bibliography (pages 201-203), and index. Anton Seuffert and his sons William Albert and Carl operated a cabinetmaking dynasty active in Auckland, New Zealand from 1859 to 1943. They created...

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Farm Cart Aquatint

[1970s]

Photograph of an aquatint illustration by William Pyne, of a farm cart loaded with baskets being drawn by two horses. The aquatint dates from 1802.

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Sound Recordings, Powys

Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009); Parry, David (1937-)

[1960s]

[Collector announcement (Ellis)]; Mr. ?Richards, recorded outside in Llanafan-fawr [undated]; talks about the electricity supply to the area; fire grates in local houses; peat burning; local dwellings...

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Sound Recordings, Powys

Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009); Parry, David (1937-)

[1960s]

Bert Williams, recorded in Builth Wells [undated]; talks about the town as it was in his youth; describes various buildings, including a gatehouse, temperance houses, cattle market, brewery, Masonic H...

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Sound Recordings, Kent

Barry, Michael V (1935-)

1958-1959

[Collector announcement]; Charles Joiner, recorded in Staple in December 1958; talks about storing apples in earth; first thatching job, aged fifteen/sixteen; describes thatch sewn onto barn roofs; hi...

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Sound Recordings, Suffolk

Pasanen, Leena

11 August 1971

[Collector announcement]; George Parker and Mr. Cutting, recorded at Mr. Parker's home in Pettaugh; talk about the flooding of the village in 1912; Mr. Parker working for Mr. Cutting, carting produce ...

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Sound Recordings, Leicestershire, Lincolnshire and Cambridgeshire

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

1967

Edward Orton, recorded in Packington (Leicestershire); talks about building a haystack, and thatching it with wheat straw; farmhouses; curing bacon; livestock; selling land for housing; modern farming...

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Reliable furniture designs

Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019); William Lawrence & Co.

[no date supplied]

Commerical catalogue.

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General price list : general drapery & outfitting depts. : household furnishing & provision depts

Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019); Wm. Whiteley, Ltd.

1909

Trade catalogue. Includes index.

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Oatcake Making: Riddling Board

Mallinson, J Mrs

March 1967

Mr. Leslie Feather preparing a riddling board with semolina for making oatcakes, in his shop, Haworth (West Yorkshire). The semolina is sprinkled liberally over the riddling board from a special semol...

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