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Dyed Egg
Calvert, Valerie E
[1961-1962]
Decorated pasche egg dyed in onion skins, on a wooden board in a house in Workington (Cumbria).
Dressing-Up the Bride
Buckland, Theresa Jill
November 1976
Outfit worn by Kathleen Evans, a tea factory worker from Crewe (Cheshire), when her workmates dressed her up on her last day of work before her wedding. In the photograph, the outfit is worn by the br...
Glimpses of Industrial Bradford
Fieldhouse, Elizabeth Mary
1972
A study comprising six sections. The Introduction presents a history of the woollen and worsted industries, whilst the second section outlines phases in industrial development, from the guild and dome...
Sound Recordings, [West Yorkshire]
McKelvie, Donald
[1960-1963]
Male informant [location not known] talks about the preparation, valuation and sale of sheepskins at a hide and skin market; the preparation of skin by fellmongers; explains the process of separating ...
Sound Recording, [West Yorkshire]
Bryon, Fiona
10 Dec 1980 - 15 Dec 1980
Jim Roche, recorded in his home, talks about the Leeds clothing industry in the 1920s/30s; starting work at John Baron's; describes contracting out, machinery, processes, hours of work, health (T.B. p...
Sound Recordings, Oxfordshire
Pickering, Michael J
September/October 1973
Wilf Walton [daughter also present], recorded in Adderbury; recites texts of a number of unidentified poems/monologues and songs; daughter talks about her father acting in local productions of 'The Mi...
Sound Recording, [West Yorkshire]
Bryon, Fiona
18 December 1980
Mrs. Blackburn talks about her work in the Leeds tailoring industry: Parents' occupations; sewing from childhood; first job - ladies' dress factory in Woodhouse Lane - machinist, female boss; next job...
Sound Recordings, [West Yorkshire]
Bryon, Fiona
10 Jun 1980 - 15 Dec 1980
Jim Roche [continued from tape LAVC/SRE/A087] talks about his Trade Union involvement as a Shop Steward in the Leeds clothing industry: industrial and social problems of members; church involvement in...
Some Aspects of Nineteenth-Century Yorkshire Life: A Re-Examination of George Walker, The Costume of Yorkshire, 1814
Langhorne, Richard
1971
M.A. thesis which takes the activities, tools and equipment illustrated in George Walker's 'The Costume of Yorkshire' as the introduction for a study of such objects as they are represented in the mus...
Conistone Survey Contact Prints: D
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 ...
Sound Recording, West Yorkshire
Morris, Patricia M
[September 1981]
Olive Metcalf, recorded at home in the Kirkstall area of Leeds; gives biographical details (born in the Bramley area of Leeds); recollections of baptism as a child; family; other Bramley families; Bra...
Sound Recordings, Bedfordshire
Shaw, David H
1955-1956
Harry Scott [continued from tape LAVC/SRE/A746r], recorded in Billington; sings 'I Wish I was Single Again'; talks about Fred Henley. [Tr. 1] Fred Henley and his wife, Mrs. Fred Henley, recorded in ...