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Plough Stotts [Stots]
Ward, Olive
[1968-1969]
Copy of a photograph taken in 1937 of children (in costume and with a plough) participating in the Goathland Plough Stotts [Stots], Goathland (North Yorkshire). The teamster holds a whip.
Seed Drilling Team
[1970s]
Copy of a photograph dating from the turn of the 19th/20th century, of two farmworkers with a three-horse team harnessed to a seed drill in fields at Thixendale (North Yorkshire). The man at the back ...
Sound Recordings, Cumbria
Upton, Clive S
21 May 1974
[Collector announcement]; John Graham, recorded at home in Abbeytown; describes the game of penny pitching, the equipment used, competitions and prize money, practising at night, locations of the game...
Sound Recordings, Wiltshire
Wright, John T; Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)
1957
Ernest Packer, recorded in Ashton Keynes in July 1957; talks about his first job, driving a farm waggon at the age of ten; stable work harnessing horses; wages; thoughts on modern farming methods (plo...
Sound Recordings, West Yorkshire
Cooke, Jane A
[1979-1980]
Schoolgirls recorded in the playground at Birdsedge First School, Birdsedge, on the 24 January 1980. Sing 'I'm Only a Poor Little Gymnast', 'Vote, Vote, Vote'[skipping]; talk about being on, and winte...
Sound Recordings, West Yorkshire
Cooke, Jane A
[1979-1980]
Children recorded at Birdsedge First School, Birdsedge; sing three parodies - the first to the Dallas theme tune, followed by 'Burn the Teacher'and 'I'd Like to Teach the RAF'. Also sing 'Chinese Rest...