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Sound Recording, North Yorkshire

Liman, Ingemar (1938-)

October 1967

[Collector announcement]; Charles Horner, recorded at home in Conistone; talks about cow barns; hay and haymaking; livestock; milking and the use of back cans; skimming cream; butter and cheese; restr...

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Sound Recording, North Yorkshire

Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)

November 1962

James Ingleby [ Pauline Battersby also present], recorded in Litton; talks about sheep farming; orphan lambs; shepherding; weaning; the size of his farm; cattle and milking; (Wensleydale) cheese and b...

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Sound Recordings, Lincolnshire and Suffolk

Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)

1959-1960

William Brothwell and Florence Greenwood, recorded in Wragby in April 1960; talk about foxes and shooting them; Mr. Brothwell's farming career; setting a field for ploughing; livestock; thatching and ...

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Sound Recording, East Sussex

Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)

[1964]

Mr. W. Glapson, recorded in Horam; talks about his smallholding and retirement from farming; farm work - mowing corn with a scythe, binding and stooking, stacking; modern farming; first jobs, aged fou...

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Sound Recordings, Cambridgeshire and Essex

Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)

[1961]

Male informant, recorded in Comberton; talks about working on a farm from the age of eleven; his father and his farming; thatchers in the family; informant learning to thatch; describes a day's work; ...

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Sound Recordings, Wiltshire

Kylstra, Henk E

1961

Francis Foyle and Edward Scammell, recorded in Fovant; talk about farm implements (forks/prongs); fruit and vegetable growing for market; informants' places of birth; corn, barley and other crop growi...

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Sound Recordings, Hampshire and Wiltshire

Kylstra, Henk E; Wright, John T

1960-1961

William Blake, recorded in Hambledon by Henk Kylstra; talks about his work as a shepherd during the years 1919-1958; the village of Hambledon past and present; schooling; work as a shepherd boy on lea...

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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

1956

Ted Brown, recorded in the farm of John Costin at Eaton Bray [the voice of Mr. Costin's Housekeeper is also heard]; talks about the work of a blacksmith; the cost and composition of horseshoes; mendin...

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Sound Recordings, Isle of Wight, Wiltshire and Berkshire

Kylstra, Henk E; Barry, Michael V (1935-)

1959-1960

[Collector announcement]; Mr. M. Sheath, recorded in Whitwell (Isle of Wight) in April 1959, by Henk Kylstra; talks about the uses for farm waggons and carts; the decline in the use of horses; ploughi...

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Stone Barns Roofed with Local Flagstones
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Stone Barns Roofed with Local Flagstones

Kissling, Werner (1895-1988)

May 1962

Stone barns on the roadside near Raisgill ( Langstrothdale), roofed with local flagstones. Mounted on Photo File card with LAVC/PHO/P0277. With typed note on the stone barns.

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