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Total number of records: 17

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Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture16
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culture17
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english language - dialects10
food8
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history5
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Peacock, James Cooper3
Kissling, Werner (1895-1988)2
Orton, Harold (1898-1975)2
Shaw, David H2
Walton, James2
Agar, Arthur1
Ambler, Pamela J1
Armstrong, Hunter (1912-)1
Bell, George1
Brondal, Viggo (1887-1942)1

Archive File

The Coopers' Company, the Craft, and Gauging Casks

O'Neill, G M

1967

A thesis examining the history and practise of coopering, including a section outlining the history of the Coopers Company of London , and a description of hand coopering based on interviews with coop...

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Local Woodcrafts

Walton, James

1940

Article on the history of woodcrafts in the Halifax/ Calderdale area, published in the 'Transactions of the Halifax Antiquarian Society' (dated 5 October 1940). Includes sections on the woods themselv...

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Dialect recording in Newbiggin-by-the-Sea, Northumberland

Orton, Harold (1898-1975); Lenihan, J M A

23 Feb 1939

[Side 1] Mr and Mrs. Brown discuss holidays; George Brown and Mrs. Roe talk about recent day trips. [Side 2] rs. Brown, Mr Brown, George, Mrs. Roe, Hunter, Mrs. Cooper and Maggie demonstrate pronuncia...

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Rural Life Around Huddersfield

Walton, James

1933-1938

Articles written by James Walton for a series on rural life around Huddersfield, and local tales and sayings, published in the 'Huddersfield Weekly Examiner' in 1933 and 1938 respectively. The geograp...

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The Kellet Manuscript

Kellet, G R

[1970s]

The first file contains a photocopy of a manuscript by G. R. Kellet, being a memoir of growing up in Hunslet, Leeds, in the 1920s and 1930s. Although biographical, the manuscript includes descriptions...

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Sound Recordings, North Lincolnshire

Haldenby, Cynthia

August 1958

George Bell, recorded at Winteringham; talks about his working life; being in service, starting farm work at the age of fifteen; working with horses at Keelby Grange (second to the Waggoner); job of W...

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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 ...

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The Living Dialect of Queensbury, Near Bradford, Yorkshire West Riding

Ambler, Pamela J

1954

A study of the dialect spoken in Queensbury in West Yorkshire. An introduction to the town is followed by a chapter which gives a descriptive account of the dialect in 1954 (with sections on vowels ...

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Sound Recordings, Bedfordshire

Shaw, David H

1955

Will Clarke, recorded in Stanbridge; talks about his daughter's move from Stanbridge to Hertfordshire [his daughters, Mrs. W. Urquhartand Mary Cooper, and sons-in-law William Cooper and Mr. W. Urquhar...

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Sound Recordings, North Yorkshire

Woods, Peter J E

1970

Frank Weatherill (cello), Mr. Jones (violin) and Mary ? (piano), recorded in Danby [date not known]; play a number of instrumental tunes, many unidentified and some repeated following adjustments to t...

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Sports and Athletic Games

1961-1974

This file contains items relating to sports and games of athletic ability, skill, strength and endurance. This includes a copy of 'The Ancient Haxey Hood Game (An Ancestor of Football?)', by J. W. ff....

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Sound Recordings, North Yorkshire

[Mid-1960s]

Male, recorded in Filey in April 1962 [date when this copy tape made not known.]; relates anecdotes (mostly humorous) concerning local characters, including a rag and bone man, winkle collector, pork ...

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