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Wright, John T2
Adcock, Mr1
Barry, Michael V (1935-)1
Bury, Jack1
Duckett, Archibald (1885-1885)1
East, Alice1
Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)1
Gilbert, Richard1
Green, L. (1894-1894)1
Gwinnett, Aubrey1
Wooden Barn at Ekeby (Sweden)
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Wooden Barn at Ekeby (Sweden)

January 1965

Detail of the corner of a timbered barn in the village of Ekeby (Uppsala Lan, Sweden).

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Field Barn at Skutskär (Sweden)
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Field Barn at Skutskär (Sweden)

January 1965

Timber field barn in the forest at Skutskär (Uppsala Lan, Sweden), in snow. The barn was probably built around 1800.

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Hay Barn and Cow Byre
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Hay Barn and Cow Byre

Sanderson, Stewart (1924-)

December 1974

Wooden hay barn and cow byre, on exhibition at the Ethnological Museum of Transylvania, Cluj. Mounted on Photo File card.

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North Bar, Beverley

[1960s]

Board-mounted photograph of the North Bar in Beverley (East Riding of Yorkshire). The bar is a medieval brick construction built in the 15th-century, and is the sole survivor of the four or five gatew...

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Sound Recordings, Cornwall

Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009); Wakelin, Martyn F; Wright, John T

1958-1963

[Collector announcement]; William Willey, recorded by Stanley Ellis in Mullion on the 30 March 1963; answers a selection of questions from the Dieth-Orton dialect survey Questionnaire [various Books];...

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Stonework

1969-1979

This file contains items relating to stone industries and related crafts, including a photocopy of the Appendix to Horace Harman's 'Buckinghamshire Dialect' (reprinted Wakefield: S. R. Publishers, 197...

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Sound Recording, North Yorkshire

Liman, Ingemar (1938-)

October 1967

[Collector announcement]; Charles Horner, recorded at home in Conistone; talks about cow barns; hay and haymaking; livestock; milking and the use of back cans; skimming cream; butter and cheese; restr...

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Sound Recordings, West Yorkshire

Houck, Charles L

[Mid 1960s-1970s]

Male and female informant responses to a questionnaire used by the collector as part of his sociolinguistic inquiry in Leeds. For the purposes of data collection, the city was divided into a number of...

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Sound Recordings, Warwickshire

Wharton, Colin S

1967-1968

Jack Bury, recorded in Winderton; talks about harvesting methods - fagging, tying sheaves and leaving to stand for three bells (i.e. three Sundays); discusses a ?sheppick (hay fork); labour force on t...

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Horses, Cattle and Draft Animals

1960-1973

This file contains items on livestock, in particular cattle and horses. The focus is largely on the general care and management of cattle and horses, folklore relating to their care, medicine, dialect...

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Sound Recordings, Warwickshire

Barry, Michael V (1935-)

July 1966

[Collector announcement]; Arthur Humphries, recorded in Lighthorne on the 28 July 1966[Swiss male also present asks some questions, possibly Eduard Kolb, or Dieter Bothe]; Mr. Humphries talks about wo...

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Sound Recordings, Devon

Wright, John T

October 1958

[Announcement, ?by Tony Green]; Ernest Smythe, recorded in Parracombe; talks about working life on the railway (as office boy, timekeeper); gangs working on the line, and the difficulty of building it...

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