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Total number of records: 38

Count of Record type

Record type	Count
Archives	34
Books and printed items	4

Count of Collection group

Collection group	Count
Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture	33
Cookery Collection	4
Brotherton Collection	1
Novello Cowden Clarke Collection	1

Top 10: Subject

Subject	Count
agriculture	38
fishing	37
occupations	33
community life	26
food	22
nature	20
culture	19
animals	15
food crops	14
manners and customs	14

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisations	Count
Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)	5
Tammivaara, Irmeli	5
Dunn, Ginette	3
Barry, Michael V (1935-)	2
Cross, Miriam	2
Evans, George Ewart (1909-1988)	2
Hard, May	2
Holy Jim	2
Jimmy	2
Knights, James (1880-1880)	2

Count of Earliest date

Earliest date	Count
From 1700	4
From 1800	1
From 1900	33

Count of Latest date

Latest date	Count
Up to 1799	4
Up to 1899	1
Up to 1999	33

Archive Print Item

The complete family-piece: and, country gentleman, and farmer's best guide. In three parts. Part I. containing a... collection of above one thousand well-experienced practical family-receipts ... Part II. containing, I. Full instructions to be observed in hunting, coursing, setting and shooting ... II. Cautions, rules, and directions to be taken and observed in fishing; with the manner of making and preserving of rods, lines, floats, artificial flies, &c. and for chusing and preserving several sorts of curious baits. III. A full ... kalendar of all work necessary to be done in the fruit, flower, and kitchen gardens ... Part III. containing, practical rules, and methods, for the improving of land, and managing a farm in all its branches ... [etc.]

1737

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The complete family-piece: and, country gentleman, and farmer's best guide. In three parts. Part I. containing a... collection of above one thousand well-experienced practical family-receipts ... Part II. containing, I. Full instructions to be observed in hunting, coursing, setting and shooting ... II. Cautions, rules, and directions to be taken and observed in fishing; with the manner of making and preserving of rods, lines, floats, artificial flies, &c. and for chusing and preserving several sorts of curious baits. III. A full ... kalendar of all work necessary to be done in the fruit, flower, and kitchen gardens ... Part III. containing, practical rules, and methods, for the improving of land, and managing a farm in all its branches ... [etc.]

1737

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Archive Print Item

The complete family-piece: and, country gentleman, and farmer's best guide. In three parts. Part I. containing a... collection of above one thousand well-experienced practical family-receipts ... Part II. containing, I. Full instructions to be observed in hunting, coursing, setting and shooting ... II. Cautions, rules, and directions to be taken and observed in fishing; with the manner of making and preserving of rods, lines, floats, artificial flies, &c. and for chusing and preserving several sorts of curious baits. III. A full ... kalendar of all work necessary to be done in the fruit, flower, and kitchen gardens ... Part III. containing, practical rules, and methods, for the improving of land, and managing a farm in all its branches ... [etc.]

1737

Includes indexes.

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The complete family-piece: and, country gentleman, and farmer's best guide. In three parts. Part I. containing a... collection of above one thousand well-experienced practical family-receipts ... Part II. containing, I. Full instructions to be observed in hunting, coursing, setting and shooting ... II. Cautions, rules, and directions to be taken and observed in fishing; with the manner of making and preserving of rods, lines, floats, artificial flies, &c. and for chusing and preserving several sorts of curious baits. III. A full ... kalendar of all work necessary to be done in the fruit, flower, and kitchen gardens ... Part III. containing, practical rules, and methods, for the improving of land, and managing a farm in all its branches ... [etc.]

1741

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Dialect recording in Newbiggin-by-the-Sea, Northumberland. Dialect recording in Wooler, Northumberland

Orton, Harold (1898-1975); Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)

17 Sep 1952

Side 1 recording in Newbiggin-by-the-Sea. Side 2 recording in Wooler.[Side 1] Eleanor, Hunter and Rose talk about about fishing locally, discussion about father leading strike. [Side 2] John tells amu...

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Sound Recordings, North Yorkshire

[Mid-1960s]

Male, recorded in Filey in 1962 [date when this copy tape made not known]; talks about sea fishing (first, aged eleven) from Grimsby (no fishing on a Sunday); fishing on Dogger Bank; tacking into the ...

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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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Kelp-Gathering Implements

July 1968

Kelp-gathering implements, including rakes and a net, on display at the Centro des Estudos de Etnologia Peninsular, Lisbon (Portugal). Mounted on Photo File card.

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The Phonology of the Living Dialect of Neston in Cheshire

Barry, Michael V (1935-)

1958

A study of the dialect spoken in Neston, Cheshire. An introduction to the town and the collector's informants is followed by six chapters which present a descriptive account of the sounds of the dia...

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Hay Net

Kissling, Werner (1895-1988)

June 1962

Hay net made of sisal twine hung from a stake in a field near Hawes ( Wensleydale). A hay net filled with hay was tied to the back of horse-drawn carts travelling long distances, ready for the horses ...

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Photographs of Traditional Work Techniques and Implements

[1960s]

The photographs in this file show farming scenes (hay gathering, PC1022, PC1053, PC1060), stone barn and cow shed constructions (PC0268, PC0269, PC0275, PC0277), cheesemaking (PC1519), buttermaking (P...

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Sound Recordings, Suffolk

Evans, George Ewart (1909-1988)

[1960s]

James Knights of Woodbridge [?recorded in 1968] talks about Suffolk and Norfolk men taking seasonal jobs in Burton upon Trent, in October after the harvest; describes work and conditions in the maltho...

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