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Brunetti, Gaetano? (1758)1
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House in Knaresborough
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House in Knaresborough

Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)

1962

View over the River Nidd of houses in Knaresborough (North Yorkshire). The view includes a brightly decorated house with a black and white check pattern on the gable end.

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Murray's Lancashire architectural guide

Fleetwood-Hesketh, Peter (1905-1985); Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019)

[1955]

The third in a series of architectural guides edited by John Betjeman and John Piper. This volume traces the history and development of architecture in Lancashire through an essay, 270 black and white...

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Premier - VIII cahier d'arabesques

Boucher, Juste Nathan Francois (1736-1781); Gast, Maria [?]; Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019); Jozon & Chauvet

[c.1780]

Plates are black and white. Each book [1st-8th] has 6 numbered plates, in book 5 these are folded, plates interleaved [when bound].

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Photographs of Villa Novello and Rotunda via Corsica

c. 1913

Two black and white photographs of the exterior of Villa Novello, with Rotunda via Corsica in the foreground, along with a stamped card and envelope. Inscriptions in later hands note that the photogra...

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Views and interiors of English palaces

Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019); Pyne, W H (1769-1843); Evelegh, George

1825

The plates are a selection from W. H. Pyne, The history of the royal residences of Windsor Castle, St. James's Palace, Carlton House, Kensington Palace, Hampton Court, Buckingham House, and Frogmore, ...

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Sound Recordings, Dorset

Panheinen, Ossi

[1970]

Mr. Spiller of Broadwindsor talks about farming; milking cows; hedging and the decline in the numbers of hedgers; farm horses and ploughing; weeding corn; haymaking; women labourers; informant's famil...

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Sound Recordings, Bedfordshire

Shaw, David H

1959-1960

Alf Odell, recorded in Gravenhurst in November 1959; describes the process of thatching a haystack/rick; his working clothes and the tools used [ Bert Kefford and Doris Kefford join in]; Mr. Kefford a...

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Exhibition Photographs and Related Papers

[1960s-1970s]

The photographs in this file have been mounted in groups according to particular subjects. Thus, there are two sheets of eight prints showing the construction and use of a hay creel (including duplica...

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Album of eighteenth-century plates of ornamental designs for trophies, shields, vases, print rooms etc
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Album of eighteenth-century plates of ornamental designs for trophies, shields, vases, print rooms etc

Vivares, François and others (1709-1780); Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019); Charpentier, Francois-Phillipe? (1734-1817); Angier, Paul (1725-1757); Benoist, Antoine (1721-1770?); Le Pautre, Jean (1618-1682); Delafosse, Jean Baptiste? (1721-1806); Eisen, Charles-Doinique-Joseph (1720-1778); Darly, Matthew (1721-1780); Le Romain, Jacques Dumont (1701-1781); Edwards, George (1694-1773); Peyrotte, Alexis (1699-1769); Brunetti, Gaetano? (1758); Babel, Pierre Edme (1775); Nilson, Johann Esaias (1721-1788); Hemerick; Sympson, Samuel (1751); Vivares, Thomas (1744-1783)

[approximately 1754-1798]

Title supplied by cataloguer. Album or scrapbook containing eighteenth-century ornamental plates.

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