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The Living Dialect of White Coppice
Sutcliffe, L Jean
1964
A study of the dialect spoken in White Coppice in Lancashire, based on the answers of two informants to questions from the Dieth-Orton Questionnaire, recorded over Easter and July 1963.
Clinker-Built Boats
Sanderson, Stewart (1924-)
Summer 1959
Clinker-built fishing boats, one occupied by two boys, off the shore of Holy Island (Northumberland). Small white dog in foreground. Mounted on Photo File card.
Clinker-Built Boats
Sanderson, Stewart (1924-)
Summer 1959
Fishermen and two boys in clinker-built fishing boats off the shore of Holy Island (Northumberland). Lindisfarne Castle in background; small white dog in foreground. Mounted on Photo File card.
Swedish Woven Textile
March 1965
Finished woven article with reindeer, bird, and snowflake motifs, woven in blue, red, white, and yellow, from Skåne (Sweden). This example of weaving in rölakan was included in an exhibition of Peas...
Sound Recordings, South Yorkshire
Russell, Ian; Howarth, Leslie
8 May 1973
Jack White and Mrs. Jack White in conversation at their home in the Stannington area of Sheffield. Talk of family members; informant's birthplace; Castleton Wakes; haytime; schooling at Lydgate in She...
Dry Stone Wall
Kissling, Werner (1895-1988)
1962
Old dry stone wall built of grey-white limestone, near Hawes ( Wensleydale). Much of the stone used in the wall appears to have been cleared from the land. There are wall-heads at intervals. Mounted o...
Tapestry (Norway)
January 1965
Tapestry in wool from Trondelag(?) (Norway). The tapestry is heavily patterned with a geometric tree motif, woven in red, blue, black, and white. A note in the Slide Index states that the tapestry dat...
Decadent Local Industries: Pottery and Quarrying
Walton, James
1938
This volume contains two articles written by James Walton for the 'Some Decadent Local Industries' series of articles published in the 'Transactions of the Halifax Antiquarian Society' (March 1938). T...
Tapestry (Norway)
January 1965
Tapestry made up of two piece, patterned with geometric designs in stripes, in red, yellow, black, and white, from Nordland (Norway). The patterns and colours used are of the orthodox old Norwegian ty...
Tapestry (Norway): Detail
January 1965
Close-up detail of a late Renaissance tapestry from Østerdalen ( Østdal?) (Norway) showing the method of depicting life-like figures, and of joining the colours in the pattern. The slide shows a mal...
Gates, Walls and Fields
Walton, James
1938-1949
This volume contains pasted-in articles from 'Country Life', 'The Illustrated Carpenter and Builder', 'Yorkshire Evening Post' and the 'Yorkshire Dalesman', some with ms. annotations, and black and wh...
Sound Recording, North Yorkshire
Sullivan, Keith Frederick
30 November 1976
[Collector announcement]; John White, Ralph Brown and Joe Sanderson, recorded in conversation at John White's house in Ugthorpe. Talk of Jack Gallon; winning the handicap; prize winning quoit team mem...