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Total number of records: 28

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Archives26
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Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture26
Cookery Collection2

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food28
community life26
markets26
occupations26
nature20
agriculture18
animals17
culture14
education13
manners and customs13

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Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)6
Stigell, Ossi4
Cordwent, Mr3
Barry, Michael V (1935-)2
Cleave, Mr2
Dallyn, Mr2
Fisher, Mr2
Fry, Mr2
Gledhill, James2
Grant, Mr2

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Food purchasing for the home

Blinks, Ruetta Day; Moore, Willetta

[1930]

"Bibliography for a marketing course": pages 418-120.

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Economic housekeeping

Bainbridge, James Scott (1897-)

1930

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Bergen Fish Market

March 1965

View from above of the fish market on the harbourside at Bergen (Norway) from above. Stalls made of fish boxes have been set up, and the fish sellers are busy with customers.

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Bergen Fish Market
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Bergen Fish Market

1965

View of the fish market on the harbourside at Bergen (Norway).

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Sound Recording, Staffordshire

Upton, Clive S

[Mid-1970s]

Charles Brown [continued from tape LAVC/SRE/A709r], recorded in Stoke-on-Trent; talks about his work as a butcher; meat processing equipment/implements; meat display; butcher's shop fixtures and fitti...

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Sound Recordings, Devon

Stigell, Ossi

1976

Mr. Cordwent of Whitnage [continued from tape LAVC/SRE/A688r] talks about deer hunting/culling on Exmoor; the damage done by deer; the cost of maintaining hunting packs (horses and dogs); involvement ...

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Sound Recording, North Yorkshire

Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)

November 1962

James Ingleby [ Pauline Battersby also present], recorded in Litton; talks about sheep farming; orphan lambs; shepherding; weaning; the size of his farm; cattle and milking; (Wensleydale) cheese and b...

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Rochdale Market: Its History and Customs

Randle, Olivia Susan

1971

A study of Rochdale Market, comprising chapters giving historical background information, descriptions of the market and its administration in 1971, childhood in Rochdale at the turn of the twentieth ...

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Sound Recordings, North Yorkshire

Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)

[1960s]

Tom Bradley, recorded in Gargrave; talks about his working life, including carting, farming, carding (mill), canal (horsework); working with his father; home made wine; pig scraping; canal work - haul...

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Sound Recordings, Warwickshire

Siporin, Rae Lee

June 1965

[Collector announcement]; Bella Green, recorded in Nether Whitacre; talks about her childhood; working in service at a farm in Coleshill; farm work - hoeing, digging, carting, harvesting; horse raking...

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Sound Recording, Derby

Upton, Clive S

[Mid-1970s]

Raymond Lindley and his wife [continued from tape LAVC/SRE/A705r, possibly recorded in Spondon, on the outskirts of Derby]; talk of meat contamination and pests; offal, blood products and other by-pro...

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Sound Recording, South Yorkshire

Russell, Ian

7 August 1972

George Hancock recorded in conversation at home, Sheephill Farm, in the Ringinglow area of Sheffield. Mrs. George Hancock also contributes. Talk of (dairy) farming; Penistone and Bakewell markets; alt...

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