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Total number of records: 22

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markets22
community life20
occupations20
retail trade14
culture10
food10
agriculture9
nature8
wealth8
animals7

Top 10: People and organisations

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Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)4
Cordwent, Mr2
Gledhill, James2
Lawson, Rowena Mary2
Sanderson, Stewart (1924-)2
Smith, Hollins2
Stigell, Ossi2
Upton, Clive S2
Barry, Michael V (1935-)1
Beels, Gillian Rosemary1

Archive Sub-series

Trade

1964-1976

This subseries contains items relating to different aspects of trade. The subject matter largely includes trading and dealing, and fairs and markets. Alongside general items relating to trade, the sub...

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Trade - General

1964-1976

This file contains items relating to aspects of trading, including a typed paper by Ted Spiegel on Handslag, or striking a bargain, by farmers ([2] leaves); a typed extract listing bad luck beliefs in...

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Archive Series

C: Communications and Trade

1963-1976

This series contains items relating to communications by land and sea, including horse-drawn vehicles; and trading and dealing, including fairs and markets.

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Archive Item

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, 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, 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 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 Recording, West Yorkshire

Hermansson, Nana

November 1969

Harry Hudson, recorded at home in Leeds on the 20th and 27th of November; talks about Leeds City Market; his first stall; work at a wholesale fruit firm; the Armyand World War One; buying his own busi...

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Sound Recordings, Yorkshire

Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009); Wright, Peter

[1966-1980]

Compilation of Survey of English Dialects fieldwork recordings (copies) for Yorkshire locations 6Y21-24, 26-29. The majority of the original recordings were made by Stanley Ellis, in 1955, 1963, 1964 ...

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Fruit and Vegetable Market (Romania)
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Fruit and Vegetable Market (Romania)

Sanderson, Stewart (1924-)

December 1974

Permanent stalls at the fruit and vegetable market place in Sibiu (Romania). There are shops in the background, with wine casks lined up outside. Mounted on Photo File card with LAVC/PHO/P1590.

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