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Archive File

Institute Open Day Exhibition Photographs

[1978]

The photographs were displayed at a University Open Day on November 3rd and 4th, 1978. This exhibition showed the work of overseas postgraduate students based in the Institute of Dialect and Folk Life...

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Boy with Guy
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Boy with Guy

October 1965

Boy with a guy made for Guy Fawkes Night, outside the Packhorse pub on Woodhouse Lane, Leeds (West Yorkshire). This picture was taken during pub opening hours, the boy collecting money (Penny for the ...

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Midgley Pace Eggers
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Midgley Pace Eggers

[1960s]

Copy of a photograph of pace eggers performing in the open air at Midgley (West Yorkshire), around the 1940s. At the centre of the photograph, dressed in a top hat and dark suit, is the Doctor. Other ...

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Pace Eggers, West Yorkshire
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Pace Eggers, West Yorkshire

[1960s]

Copy of a photograph of a group of pace eggers performing in the open air at an unidentified location, probably in West Yorkshire. The players are all children (boys), and are all in costume. The play...

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Brighouse Pace Eggers
Archive Item

Brighouse Pace Eggers

Tylor, Mr

[1960s]

Copy of a photograph taken in the 1940s, of members of the Brighouse Children's Theatre performing a pace egg play in the open air at Brighouse (West Yorkshire). The Doctor, wearing a top hat and dark...

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Pace Eggers, West Yorkshire
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Pace Eggers, West Yorkshire

[1960s]

Copy of a photograph of a group of pace eggers performing in the open air at an unidentified location, probably in West Yorkshire. The players are all children (boys), and are all in costume. The Doct...

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Pace Eggers, West Yorkshire
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Pace Eggers, West Yorkshire

[1960s]

Copy of a photograph of a group of pace eggers performing in the open air at an unidentified location, probably in West Yorkshire. The players are all children (boys), and are all in costume. The play...

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Brighouse Pace Eggers
Archive Item

Brighouse Pace Eggers

Tylor, Mr

[1960s]

Copy of a photograph taken in the 1940s, of members of the Brighouse Children's Theatre performing a pace egg play in the open air at Brighouse (West Yorkshire). The Doctor, wearing a top hat and dark...

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Brighouse Pace Eggers
Archive Item

Brighouse Pace Eggers

Tylor, Mr

[1960s]

Copy of a photograph taken in the 1940s, of members of the Brighouse Children's Theatre performing a pace egg play in the open air at Brighouse (West Yorkshire). The Doctor, wearing a top hat and dark...

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Pace Eggers, West Yorkshire
Archive Item

Pace Eggers, West Yorkshire

[1960s]

Copy of a photograph of a group of pace eggers performing in the open air at an unidentified location, probably in West Yorkshire. The players are all children (boys), and are all in costume. The Doct...

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A Study of Language and Folklore in Batley and Surrounding Areas

Holdsworth, Valerie M

1971

A Special Study submitted as part of an unidentified course at Eaton Hall College of Education, Retford, in 1971. The study comprises a collection of folklore items, gathered from eleven informants li...

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Archive Collection

Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture, (Survey of English Dialects, and the Institute of Dialect and Folk Life Studies)

University of Leeds

1836-2003

The Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture comprises the combined multiple media holdings of the archives of the Survey of English Dialects (ca. 1946-1978) directed by Harold Orton, and the University of...

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