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Sound Recordings, Essex and West Yorkshire

Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)

[1960s]

Martin Baynes, recorded in Henham (Essex); talks about his working life; jobs on leaving school, scaring birds, riding the chain horse at harvest time; working with horses from the age of 14/15; worki...

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Sound Recordings, West Yorkshire

Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)

[1960s]

James Gledhill, recorded in Golcar; talks about working in a woollen cloth textile mill - processes, differences between spinning/producing woollen and worsted materials; leisure time, including a des...

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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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Beehives at the Village Museum, Bucharest
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Beehives at the Village Museum, Bucharest

Sanderson, Stewart (1924-)

December 1974

Beehives on a bench outside a building at the open-air Village Museum in Bucharest. Mounted on Photo File card with LAVC/PHO/P0543.

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"Tinker's Caravan"

1967

Gypsy Traveller caravan on display at the Ulster Folk Museum (now the Ulster Folk and Transport Museum), Cultra (County Down). A man and woman are looking inside the caravan.

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Tree Trunk Used as Beehive
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Tree Trunk Used as Beehive

Sanderson, Stewart (1924-)

December 1974

Tree trunk in use as a beehive at the open-air Village Museum in Bucharest. Mounted on Photo File card with LAVC/PHO/P0542.

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Former Drapers Shop in Reeth
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Former Drapers Shop in Reeth

Kissling, Werner (1895-1988)

1966

Former drapers shop with bow-fronted windows in Reeth ( Swaledale), in use as a dwelling house. Mounted on Photo File card with LAVC/PHO/P0336. Ms. catalogue details in the hand of Werner Kissling.

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Hawker's Van
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Hawker's Van

[1970s]

Copy of a photograph taken in the early 20th century of a Gypsy Traveller girl sitting on the steps of a hawker's van at an unknown location, possibly in Herefordshire. Three different types of basket...

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Appleby Horse Fair: Blacksmith

Caunce, Stephen

June 1972

Blacksmith with a mobile forge at Appleby Horse Fair, Appleby (Cumbria). The blacksmith is shoeing a horse, which has its hoof raised up on a tripod. Modern Gypsy Traveller caravans are visible in the...

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Survey of English Dialects recording in Dolphinholme, Lancashire

Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)

24 May 1954

[Side 1] Bill describes baking oatcakes over open fire with 'spittle' [= wooden baking shovel] and 'cratch' [= drying rack], talks about owners of Wyreside Hall and working with horses, recalls runawa...

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Sound Recording, Suffolk

Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)

[1950s]

Male informant, recorded in Kedington; talks about his home, and its previous use as a (cobbler's) shop; changes in the village; increase in population; informant's family; first jobs - stone picking,...

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