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Total number of records: 257

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SubjectCount
community life257
vehicles257
animals256
nature256
occupations198
agriculture183
culture144
implements, utensils etc131
food117
food crops104

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Kissling, Werner (1895-1988)77
Fothergill, George William45
Brunk, Wille38
Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)22
Barry, Michael V (1935-)14
Chapman, Mr S.13
Fothergill, Mrs11
Wright, John T8
Wakelin, Martyn F7
Tilling, Philip M (1938-)6
Donkey as Pack Animal
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Donkey as Pack Animal

Kissling, Werner (1895-1988)

August 1962

Donkey used for carrying milk to the village from the hillside, outside a stone barn at West End Farm, Castle Bolton ( Wensleydale). Mr. Bostock, the donkey's owner, attaches milk cans to a home-made ...

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French Language Survey: Farm Cart Terminology
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French Language Survey: Farm Cart Terminology

[1960s-mid-1970s]

Copy of a page from a published French language survey (unidentified), illustrating items 839 and 840 relating to the hitching and unhitching of wagons/farm carts drawn by draft animals. Each item is ...

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Suffolk Punch Lithograph

[1970s]

Photograph of a lithograph of a Suffolk Punch stallion. The lithograph is by William Nicholson from a painting by Mr. Shiels, and appears in David Low's 'The Breeds of the Domestic Animals of the Brit...

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Sound Recordings, Lincolnshire and Suffolk

Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)

1959-1960

William Brothwell and Florence Greenwood, recorded in Wragby in April 1960; talk about foxes and shooting them; Mr. Brothwell's farming career; setting a field for ploughing; livestock; thatching and ...

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Sound Recordings, West Yorkshire and Essex

Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009); Berntsen, Howard N

[1950s-1960s]

Irvine Brooksbank, recorded in Thornton in May 1957; talks about Thornton village; anecdotes re. local people; quarryworkers (including his father); family's connection with the village; family nickna...

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Sound Recordings, Cornwall

Wakelin, Martyn F; Tilling, Philip M (1938-)

July 1963

Mr. N. Cox, recorded in St Cleer; talks about animal (bullock) husbandry; winter feed; lambing time; moor cattle, allowed to roam free within certain boundaries, owned by commoners who pay for commone...

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Sound Recording, East Riding of Yorkshire

Chamberlain, John S

July/August 1961

Herbert Sykes of Wetwang relates items of weatherlore - rainbows, moon (and associated rhymes), wind direction, horses' behaviour/crows' behaviour (nesting) as signs of weather; Mrs. Sykes relates say...

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Sound Recordings, Wiltshire

Kylstra, Henk E

1961

Francis Foyle and Edward Scammell, recorded in Fovant; talk about farm implements (forks/prongs); fruit and vegetable growing for market; informants' places of birth; corn, barley and other crop growi...

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Sound Recordings, Bedfordshire

Shaw, David H

1956

Ted Brown, recorded in the farm of John Costin at Eaton Bray [the voice of Mr. Costin's Housekeeper is also heard]; talks about the work of a blacksmith; the cost and composition of horseshoes; mendin...

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Sheep and Farm Cart
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Sheep and Farm Cart

[1970s]

View of fields at an unidentified location. In the foreground are grazing sheep and a wooden farm cart with 2 wheels.

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"Gypsy Caravans"

[1970s]

Copy of a photograph taken by Dorothy Hartley, ca. 1920, of two horse-drawn Gypsy Traveller caravans on the road at an unknown (English) location.

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Salmon Coble
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Salmon Coble

Sanderson, Stewart (1924-)

1959

Salmon coble on the River Tweed near Middle Ord (Northumberland). A family of swans is on the river in the background.

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