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architecture45
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food45
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community life37
handicraft37
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Barry, Michael V (1935-)15
Kylstra, Henk E7
Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)6
Tilling, Philip M (1938-)6
Sanderson, Stewart (1924-)4
Wright, John T4
Orton, Harold (1898-1975)3
Shaw, David H3
Beddow, William2
Berntsen, Howard N2
Stone Cottage at Carlton
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Stone Cottage at Carlton

Kissling, Werner (1895-1988)

1964

Dressed stone cottage with pear tree trained up the front, at Carlton ( Coverdale). Mounted on Photo File card with LAVC/PHO/P0329. With ms. notes.

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Maize Store at the Village Museum (Bucharest)
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Maize Store at the Village Museum (Bucharest)

Sanderson, Stewart (1924-)

December 1974

Circular wooden maize store with conical thatched roof, on exhibition at the open-air Village Museum in Bucharest. Mounted on Photo File card.

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Corn Stacks
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Corn Stacks

Sanderson, Stewart (1924-)

1967

Thatched corn stacks in a field near Halidon Hill, Foulden (Berwickshire). Mounted on Photo File card.

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Hay Ricks

1955

Thatched hay ricks in a field near Blewbury (Oxfordshire). Mounted on Photo File card.

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Corn Stacks
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Corn Stacks

Sanderson, Stewart (1924-)

1966

Thatched corn stacks in a field near Halidon Hill, Foulden (Berwickshire).

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Survey of English Dialects Contact Prints
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Survey of English Dialects Contact Prints

Sanderson, Stewart (1924-)

1967

Strip of six contact prints, including two photographs of thatched corn stacks in a field near Foulden (including LAVC/PHO/P1037); and four photographs of Harold Orton in the Survey of English Dialect...

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Sound Recordings, England

Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009); Barry, Michael V (1935-); Francis, W Nelson (1910-2002)

[1960s]

Compilation of extracts from field recordings made between 1953 and 1959 as part of the Survey of English Dialects, dubbed and edited from gramophone disc copies by Reg Ross of the University of Leeds...

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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, 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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Straw Crafts

[1970s]

Straw crafts exhibit at the Museum of English Rural Life, University of Reading. The display includes a piece of roof thatch with the various tools and implements used to make, maintain and repair it;...

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Sound Recordings, Kent

North, David J

December 1978

[Collector announcement]; Alf Tullet (born in Cowden) and his wife, Mrs. Tullet (born in Chiddingstone), recorded in their home in Hever on the 29 December 1978. The conversation concerns the making a...

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Corn Dollies

Liman, Ingemar (1938-)

[1960s]

Contact print strip with images of a pattern carved into the stone of the church wall (1), a view of the church interior (1), and close-up detail of a male's hands as he weaves a corn dolly (4). The i...

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