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Total number of records: 69

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community life69
occupations69
quarries and quarrying69
nature50
culture44
agriculture41
manners and customs35
animals34
education30
land use30

Top 10: People and organisations

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Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)9
Kissling, Werner (1895-1988)5
Tammivaara, Irmeli5
Orton, Harold (1898-1975)4
Pasanen, Leena4
Wakelin, Martyn F4
Wright, John T4
Kylstra, Henk E3
Siporin, Rae Lee3
William3

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Quarrymen and Draft Horse

[1970s]

Copy of a photograph dating from the early-20th century, of two quarry workers with a draft horse harnessed to a cart, in a quarry at an unidentified location. The workers and horse are standing in fr...

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Dialect recording in Humshaugh, Northumberland

Orton, Harold (1898-1975); Lenihan, J M A

05 Jun 1939

[Side 1] Brief discussion of new road, description of working conditions in quarry, cutting by hand, working in hot weather. [Side 2] Comparison of working conditions and wages at quarry and on farm (...

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Stone Building (Bay Horse Inn)
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Stone Building (Bay Horse Inn)

Brunk, Wille

[1967]

Gable end of an old stone building/dwelling house. A note on the sleeve in which this photograph was originally enclosed suggests that it may be the Bay Horse Inn at Great Broughton (North Yorkshire),...

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Pack-Horse Bridge at Ivelet
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Pack-Horse Bridge at Ivelet

Kissling, Werner (1895-1988)

July 1963

Old stone pack-horse bridge over the River Swale at Ivelet ( Swaledale). The bridge formed part of the old Corpse Way, which ran between Keld and Grinton. Grinton Church and burial ground at one tim...

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Pack-Horse Bridge at Ivelet
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Pack-Horse Bridge at Ivelet

Kissling, Werner (1895-1988)

July 1963

Old stone pack-horse bridge over the River Swale at Ivelet ( Swaledale). The bridge formed part of the old Corpse Way, which ran between Keld and Grinton. Grinton Church and burial ground at one tim...

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Pack-Horse Bridge at Ivelet
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Pack-Horse Bridge at Ivelet

Kissling, Werner (1895-1988)

July 1963

Old stone pack-horse bridge over the River Swale at Ivelet ( Swaledale). The bridge formed part of the old Corpse Way, which ran between Keld and Grinton. Grinton Church and burial ground at one tim...

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Pack-Horse Bridge at Ivelet
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Pack-Horse Bridge at Ivelet

Kissling, Werner (1895-1988)

July 1963

Old stone pack-horse bridge over the River Swale at Ivelet ( Swaledale). The bridge formed part of the old Corpse Way, which ran between Grinton and Keld. Grinton Church and burial ground at one tim...

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School Building
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School Building

[1970s]

View of an old stone school building(?) at an unidentified village in the Yorkshire Dales.

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Dry Stone Dwellings

1970

This file contains 2 articles extracted from 'Country Life' magazine, both reader's letters accompanied by illustrations of stone dwellings. Includes clocháns on the Dingle Peninsula, County Kerry, a...

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Dialect recording in Haggate, Lancashire

Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)

26 Feb 1954

[Side 1] Albert talks about his family, describes great-grandfather's and great-uncle's work as gamekeeper and 'water-watcher' [= water-bailiff] catching poachers, recalls 'laking' [= playing] out, me...

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Track and Dry Stone Walls
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Track and Dry Stone Walls

Kissling, Werner (1895-1988)

May 1965

Farm track running between 2 dry stone walls at Thorpe ( Wharfedale).

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Dales Landscape
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Dales Landscape

[1970s]

View of landscape at an unidentified location in the Yorkshire Dales(?). The view looks down a winding road with a dry stone wall running alongside, down a valley, with high ground in the background.

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