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Wooden Yoke
Kissling, Werner (1895-1988)
1964
Young female displaying the use of a wooden yoke for carrying milk, Thornton Rust ( Wensleydale). The wooden yoke sits on her shoulders. Wooden pails, used to carry milk from hill pastures to the farm...
Waggoner and Horse
[1970s]
Copy of a photograph dating from the turn of the 19th/20th century, of a waggoner (head horseman or farm foreman) with a horse, on a farm at Thixendale (North Yorkshire). The horse is either a young s...
Clothing and Footwear - General
1966-1971
This file contains items relating to clothing and footwear in general, and includes a photocopy of the section on clothing from a chapter on material culture, explaining aspects to consider when resea...
Sound Recording, North Yorkshire
[Mid-1960s]
Male, recorded in Filey in April 1962 [continued from tape LAVC/SRE/A559r]. [Date when this copy tape made not known.]. Talks about language and dialect; anecdotes re. old local people; the herring fl...
Sound Recording, Glamorgan
Crook, Rosemary
10 April 1980
May Jenkins (born Treorchy) talks about her family origins, childhood recollections of domestic routines - washing, describes fireplace and oven, order of washing, ironing, starch, order of hanging wa...
Sound Recordings, Bedfordshire
Shaw, David H
1960
Joe Brimm and his wife, Mrs. Joe Brimm, recorded in Dunton; talk about a local road to Dunton Lodge; thatching a haystack and a wheatcock, the clothing (knee pads) worn and implements used; using a te...
Sound Recordings, Bedfordshire
Shaw, David H
1959-1960
Alf Odell, recorded in Gravenhurst in November 1959; describes the process of thatching a haystack/rick; his working clothes and the tools used [ Bert Kefford and Doris Kefford join in]; Mr. Kefford a...
Sound Recordings, North Yorkshire
Pitkannen, Hannu
[1960s/early 1970s]
[Collector announcement, in which he provides background information on his fieldwork project, the locations visited and informants interviewed; he also comments on the quality of the recordings, the ...