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Horse Sale
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Horse Sale

Kissling, Werner (1895-1988)

July 1964

A buyer and seller striking a bargain at a horse sale at the cattle market in Hawes ( Wensleydale). The horses are kept in the cattle pens for viewing. Mounted on Photo File card with LAVC/PHO/P1587. ...

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Dialect recording in Stamfordham, Northumberland

Orton, Harold (1898-1975)

05 Apr 1939

[Side 1] John Johnson talks about father farming at Black Heddon before being sacked for stopping squire crossing his land and moving to Shotley Bridge, father died when John was seven and John return...

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Striking a Bargain
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Striking a Bargain

Kissling, Werner (1895-1988)

July 1964

Farmers Syd Metcalfe and John Richardson negotiating the sale of a cow outside a farm in Thornton Rust ( Wensleydale). Mounted on Photo File card with LAVC/PHO/P1592. Parts of the negotiating conversa...

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Striking a Bargain
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Striking a Bargain

Kissling, Werner (1895-1988)

July 1964

Farmers Syd Metcalfe and John Richardson negotiating the sale of a cow outside a farm in Thornton Rust ( Wensleydale). Mounted on Photo File card with LAVC/PHO/P1591. Parts of the negotiating conversa...

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Striking a Bargain
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Striking a Bargain

Kissling, Werner (1895-1988)

July 1964

Farmers Syd Metcalfe and John Richardson negotiating the sale of a cow outside a farm in Thornton Rust ( Wensleydale). Mounted on Photo File card with LAVC/PHO/P1593. Parts of the negotiating conversa...

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Striking a Bargain
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Striking a Bargain

Kissling, Werner (1895-1988)

July 1964

Farmers Syd Metcalfe and John Richardson negotiating the sale of a cow outside a farm in Thornton Rust ( Wensleydale). The haggling continues. Mounted on Photo File card with LAVC/PHO/P1599. Parts of ...

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Striking a Bargain
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Striking a Bargain

Kissling, Werner (1895-1988)

July 1964

Farmer Syd Metcalfe with the cow he has purchased from John Richardson, outside a farm in Thornton Rust ( Wensleydale). Mounted on Photo File card with LAVC/PHO/P1601. Card 5 in a series of 5.

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Striking a Bargain
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Striking a Bargain

Kissling, Werner (1895-1988)

July 1964

Farmer Syd Metcalfe with the cow he has purchased from John Richardson, outside a farm in Thornton Rust ( Wensleydale). Mounted on Photo File card with LAVC/PHO/P1600. Card 5 in a series of 5.

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Striking a Bargain (Denmark)

Spiegel, Ted

1972

Male buyer and seller striking a bargain over a pony at a market in Varde (Denmark). The hand gesture used to seal the bargain is known in Danish as Handslag. Mounted on Photo File card. With ms. note...

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Striking a Bargain (France)

Spiegel, Ted

1972

Male buyer and seller striking a bargain over cattle [?in Vrigny (Orne, Normandy)]. The hand gesture used to seal the bargain is known in Normandy as Tape le Main, or Taper les Mains. Mounted on Photo...

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Striking a Bargain

Spiegel, Ted

1972

Male buyer and seller striking a bargain at a cattle market in York . The man on the left (the buyer) is from York, whilst the man on the right (the seller) is from Dublin. Mounted on Photo File card....

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Ruined Farmhouse with Adjoining Barns
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Ruined Farmhouse with Adjoining Barns

Kissling, Werner (1895-1988)

1965

Ruins of stone farmhouse with adjoining barns at Roan Farm, Hurst ( North Yorkshire). Mounted on Photo File card with ms. notes on Hurst village, and catalogue details in the hand of Werner Kissling. ...

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