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Total number of records: 1058

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agriculture1058
occupations1058
nature665
animals589
community life506
culture414
food367
implements, utensils etc344
english language - dialects294
food crops294

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Kissling, Werner (1895-1988)411
Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)90
Liman, Ingemar (1938-)74
Fothergill, George William49
Dunn, Ginette33
Brunk, Wille29
Sullivan, Keith Frederick29
Horner, Mr M.28
Barry, Michael V (1935-)24
Raw, David23

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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...

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George Alderson (Farmer)
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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.

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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...

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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.

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Mrs. Sunter
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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.

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Hay Ropemaking
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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...

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Hay Ropemaking
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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...

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Hay Ropemaking
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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.

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Hay Ropemaking
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Hay Ropemaking

McNay, Ian

1966

Four men (two seated and two standing) making hay rope, Lleyn Peninsula (North Wales).

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Hay Ropemaking
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Hay Ropemaking

McNay, Ian

1966

Four men (two seated and two standing) making hay rope, Lleyn Peninsula (North Wales).

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Hay Ropemaking
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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).

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Hay Ropemaking
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Hay Ropemaking

McNay, Ian

1966

Male holding a completed length of hay rope, in a field on the Lleyn Peninsular (North Wales).

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