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buildings15
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manners and customs8
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Day, Angela M1
Dunn, Ginette1
Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)1
Gale, Mrs1
Gilbert, Richard1
Hart, Bob (1892-1978)1
Kissling, Werner (1895-1988)1
Longthorne, Fred1
Oldroyd, Charles H1
Panheinen, Ossi1
Wooden Cart: Romania
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Wooden Cart: Romania

Sanderson, Stewart (1924-)

December 1974

Male leading a wooden cart drawn by two horses down a street in Auseu (Romania). The cart is empty. Mounted on Photo File card with LAVC/PHO/P1193.

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View of Castle Bolton

[1960s]

View of Castle Bolton village ( Wensleydale) ca. 1900-1910, copied from a photographic negative in the possession of Mr. Robert S. Hunter of Castle Bolton. The image shows thatched stone cottages, a f...

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Vestmanna (Faroe Islands)
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Vestmanna (Faroe Islands)

1965

View taken from a boat on the sea, of the coastal settlement at Vestmanna (Faroe Islands), showing dwellings, a church (built on a rocky outcrop near to the sea), and other buildings. A Faroese fishin...

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Family with Horse and Cart
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Family with Horse and Cart

[1970s]

Copy of a photograph dating from the late-19th/early-20th century, of a family (mother, father and four girls) standing next to a horse and cart in a street of stone dwelling houses, at an unidentifie...

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Sound Recording, Northumberland

Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)

April 1961

[Announcement: probably recorded by Stanley Ellis in 1961 when he returned to check certain responses.]; Willie Pitt, retired farmworker and waggoner recorded in Embleton; talks about a recent shipwre...

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Staithes

Day, Angela M

1967

A study of Staithes in North Yorkshire, in two sections. The first considers the community, and contains an introduction to the village and its history, and sections on the social pattern (dress, educ...

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Trams, Railways and Boats

1967-1973

This file contains items on forms of travel, including James Edward Holroyd's article on tramcars, extracted from 'Country Life' (7 December 1967), p. 1490; an ms. postcard from Jeremy Godwin to Stewa...

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Conistone Survey Contact Prints: C
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Conistone Survey Contact Prints: C

July 1971

Contact prints of photographs taken during a Survey of Vernacular Architecture around Conistone ( Wharfedale), undertaken by students on the Museums Association Diploma Curatorial Course in Folk Life ...

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Towns

1968-1979

This subseries, comprising a single file only, contains items relating to aspects of towns and town life. This includes Stella Margetson's article on Victorian pantomime, focussing on London theatres,...

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Conistone Survey Contact Prints: I
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Conistone Survey Contact Prints: I

July 1971

Contact prints of photographs taken during a Survey of Vernacular Architecture around Conistone ( Wharfedale), undertaken by students on the Museums Association Diploma Curatorial Course in Folk Life ...

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Sound Recording, Suffolk

Dunn, Ginette

5 October 1974

Bob Hart, recorded at home in Snape, talks about village concerts, the singer Jack Davy, speeches re. the village and songs sung, village organisations, other singers, (step) dancing, village dances, ...

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Sound Recording, North Yorkshire

Oldroyd, Charles H

6 Sep 1976 - 9 Sep 1976

Fred Longthorne, of Greenhow Hill, talks about lead mining in Nidderdale, and Greenhow Hill in particular: tools, local mines, clothing, shoes, discovering Stump Cross Caverns; mining career in the 19...

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