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Dialect recording in Rothbury, Northumberland
Orton, Harold (1898-1975)
14 Mar 1939
[Side 1] Billy and John explain local farming terms incl. e.g. 'hog' [= one-year-old female sheep], 'gimmer' [= two-year-old female sheep], 'tup' [ = male sheep], discuss reduction in price of wool, r...
George Alderson (Farmer)
Kissling, Werner (1895-1988)
August 1967
Farmer, Mr. George Alderson of Peat Gate Farm, Peat Gate Head, near Low Row ( Swaledale). Mr. Alderson is sitting on a horse-drawn hay rake. Mounted on Photo File card.
Farm Workers
[1970s]
Copy of a photograph dating from the turn of the 19th/20th century, of a group of hired farmworkers on a farm in Thixendale (North Yorkshire). These were men who were hired annually to board at the fa...
Sound Recording, North Yorkshire
Sullivan, Keith Frederick
10 September 1976
[Collector announcement] informant, recorded at home in Tranmire, talks about farming work; biographical details; the pay on his father's farm; his own farm and the type of land worked.
Mrs. Sunter
Kissling, Werner (1895-1988)
[1960s]
Portrait of Mrs. M. Sunter, a sheep farmer's wife of Low Row ( Swaledale). Mounted on Photo File card.
Hay Ropemaking
McNay, Ian
1966
Four men (two seated and two standing) making hay rope, Lleyn Peninsula (North Wales). The seated men plait/twist lengths of hay together, whilst the men standing twist the rope and keep its tension u...
Hay Ropemaking
McNay, Ian
1966
Four men (two seated and two standing) making hay rope, Lleyn Peninsula (North Wales). The seated men plait/twist lengths of hay together, whilst the men standing twist the rope and keep its tension u...
Hay Ropemaking
McNay, Ian
1966
Two men (both seated) making hay rope, Lleyn Peninsula (North Wales). The men are feeding hay stalks into the rope.
Hay Ropemaking
McNay, Ian
1966
Four men (two seated and two standing) making hay rope, Lleyn Peninsula (North Wales).
Hay Ropemaking
McNay, Ian
1966
Four men (two seated and two standing) making hay rope, Lleyn Peninsula (North Wales).
Hay Ropemaking
McNay, Ian
1966
Three men (all standing) joining two strands of hay rope together, in a field on the Lleyn Peninsular (North Wales).
Hay Ropemaking
McNay, Ian
1966
Male holding a completed length of hay rope, in a field on the Lleyn Peninsular (North Wales).