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Skeet & Jeffes Ltd. Woking : wholesale ironmongers and builders' merchants : decorators' materials, Twyford's sanitary ware, Hope's steel casements, canteen & domestic equipment, agricultural appliances
Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019); Skeet & Jeffes Ltd.
[1950]
Trade catalogue. Catalogue No. 1950.
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...
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...
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...
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.
"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.
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.
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.
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...
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...
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...
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,...