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Clog Factory: Finishing Room
August 1971
Clogger nailing uppers and wooden soles together, at F. Walkley's clog factory, Huddersfield. A narrow leather strip is placed over the upper and sole before they are nailed together. Stacks of comple...
Source Lists
1975-1980
This file contains a typed list of the books held in the Orton Research Room (as at 1980), and source lists compiled by Margaret Jackson and Brenda Neale for the subjects Education (1975), Folklore an...
Sound Recording, West Yorkshire
Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009); Outhwaite, Paul N
October 1963
Benjamin Harrison, recorded in Farnley; talks about his working life, including work in a coal yard, coal deliveries, working with horses; harvest time; farm labourers' food; work during the summer ti...
Sound Recording, Oxfordshire
Pickering, Michael J
September 1973
Harry Austin, recorded at home in Adderbury, talks about local people listed on an unidentified manuscript; comments on a number of local families, including the Welsh family, the Walton family, Marth...
Sound Recording, West Yorkshire
Evans, George Ewart (1909-1988)
26 July 1972
Female, recorded in Leeds; talks about her career as Manageress of the Refectory at the University of Leeds (1935-1941). Describes the University in 1935; campus buildings; building scheme (demolition...
Sound Recordings, Devon
Panheinen, Ossi
[1970]
Mr. Reed [location not given] talks about his family; farming for 54 years; ploughing with horses; his role as Church Warden and the role of the Church Council; reference to Lord Sidmouth and Lady Sid...
Survey of English Dialects Sound Recording Documentation and Transcriptions
1964-1973
This file contains documentation relating to sound recordings made for the Survey of English Dialects (SED), including informant records; and transcriptions of SED sound recordings. These include Mich...
Sound Recordings, Dorset
Panheinen, Ossi
[1970]
Mr. Spiller of Broadwindsor talks about farming; milking cows; hedging and the decline in the numbers of hedgers; farm horses and ploughing; weeding corn; haymaking; women labourers; informant's famil...
Mechanics' Institutions, and the universal diffusion of general knowledge defended on Christian principles : a lecture delivered on the fourteenth and twenty-second of January, 1833, on the opening of the Sheffield Mechanics' Institution
Allin, Thomas (1784-1866); Sheffield Mechanics' Institution
1833
Mechanics' Institutions, and the universal diffusion of general knowledge defended on Christian principles : a lecture delivered on the fourteenth and twenty-second of January, 1833, on the opening of the Sheffield Mechanics' Institution
Allin, Thomas (1784-1866); Sheffield Mechanics' Institution
1833