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Bridal Tapestry (Norway)
January 1965
Bridal tapestry from Drivstua (Norway), dating to around 1600. The tapestry is double-woven in frieze form, and is made up of four pieces sewn together. It is heavily patterned with human figures and ...
Sound Recording, West Yorkshire
Neale, Brenda Ann
30 March 1976
[Collector announcement]; male and female [informants on tapes LAVC/SRE/A571r - A573r], recorded in the home of the female's parents in Leeds; discuss courtship/marriage; thoughts on women asking men ...
Ayton Past and Present
Dickinson, Margaret E
1974
A study of the folklore and folk life of Ayton in North Yorkshire, comprising sections which cover buildings and places of interest, masons' marks, occupations, local characters, an orange wine recipe...
Dialect recording in Croft, Lancashire
Orton, Harold (1898-1975)
11 Apr 1939
[Side 1] Description of friend's wedding, playing bowls after too much champagne and whisky, anecdotes about local characters. [Side 2] Conversation about threshing by hand, winnowing machines, introd...
Dressing-Up the Bride
Buckland, Theresa Jill
November 1976
Outfit worn by Kathleen Evans, a tea factory worker from Crewe (Cheshire), when her workmates dressed her up on her last day of work before her wedding. In the photograph, the outfit is worn by the br...
Sound Recording, South Ayrshire
Czerkawska, Catherine Lucy
23 December 1973
Rob Gibson, recorded at home in Dunure, talks about his fishing career and the changes observed in the fishing industry; mussel beds; mussel baits and baiting of fishing lines, tools used; fishing boa...
Castleton Garland
McNay, Ian
September 1965
George Bramall and an unidentified male using ropes to construct the frame upon which a flower garland is fixed. The whole construction is worn by the Garland King during the Castleton Garland ceremon...
Appleby Horse Fair
Caunce, Stephen
1972
This file contains a photocopy of an ms. paper by Stephen Caunce, consisting of an account of a visit to the last day of Appleby Horse Fair in June 1972 ([5] leaves). The account includes descriptions...
Sound Recording, North Yorkshire
Sullivan, Keith Frederick
30 November 1976
[Collector announcement]; Jim Wilkinson, recorded at home in Tranmire; sings 'Waters of Tyne', and discusses learning it and other Geordie songs; sings/hums fragment of 'Buy Broom Besoms'; sings 'Bobb...
Sound Recordings, North Yorkshire
[Mid-1960s]
Male, recorded in Filey in 1962 [date when this copy tape made not known]; relates incident where coble capsized and fisherman swam ashore; talk of a local poet [recites an example]; observations on c...
Survey of English Dialects recording in Lowick, Northumberland
Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)
13 Jan 1952
[Side 1] Robert talks about keeping pigs, describes killing pig with axe, explains process of 'scadding' [= scalding], hanging and curing meat. [Side 2] Robert recalls schooldays in nearby Duddo, tell...
A Grammar of the Dialect of Addingham in the West Riding of Yorkshire
Moody, Frederick William
1950
A study of the dialect spoken in Addingham and its immediate neighbourhood in the late 1940s, based on fieldwork data collected from eight principal informants. An Introduction presents information on...