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food41
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textile industry41
community life30
culture25
nature24
persons22
animals20
clothing and dress20
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Upton, Clive S11
Kissling, Werner (1895-1988)8
Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)5
Barry, Michael V (1935-)2
Bostock, Mr2
Jackson, Mr2
Lobb, Francis James2
Lobb, Mrs.2
Scott, Mrs M. E.2
Shaw, David H2
Cheesemaking: Cheese Bandages
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Cheesemaking: Cheese Bandages

Kissling, Werner (1895-1988)

July 1963

Mrs. M. E. Scott sewing calico bandages around pressed and pickled curd in order to preserve its shape, at her home, West Stonesdale ( Swaledale). Mounted on Photo File card. With typed note. Card 26 ...

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Cheesemaking: Cheese Bandages
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Cheesemaking: Cheese Bandages

Kissling, Werner (1895-1988)

July 1963

Mrs. M. E. Scott sewing calico bandages around pressed and pickled curd in order to preserve its shape, at her home, West Stonesdale ( Swaledale).

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Donkey as Pack Animal
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Donkey as Pack Animal

Kissling, Werner (1895-1988)

August 1962

Donkey used for carrying milk to the village from the hillside, outside a stone barn at West End Farm, Castle Bolton ( Wensleydale). The donkey wears a home-made pack saddle which will be used to carr...

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Donkey as Pack Animal
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Donkey as Pack Animal

Kissling, Werner (1895-1988)

August 1962

Donkey used for carrying milk to the village from the hillside, outside a stone barn at West End Farm, Castle Bolton ( Wensleydale). The donkey wears a home-made pack saddle, onto which milk cans have...

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Donkey as Pack Animal
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Donkey as Pack Animal

Kissling, Werner (1895-1988)

August 1962

Donkey used for carrying milk to the village from the hillside, outside a stone barn at West End Farm, Castle Bolton ( Wensleydale). The donkey wears a home-made pack saddle, onto which milk cans have...

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Donkey as Pack Animal
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Donkey as Pack Animal

Kissling, Werner (1895-1988)

August 1962

Donkey used for carrying milk to the village from the hillside, outside a stone barn at West End Farm, Castle Bolton ( Wensleydale). The donkey wears a home-made pack saddle, onto which milk cans have...

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Donkey as Pack Animal
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Donkey as Pack Animal

Kissling, Werner (1895-1988)

August 1962

Donkey used for carrying milk to the village from the hillside, outside a stone barn at West End Farm, Castle Bolton ( Wensleydale). Mr. Bostock, the donkey's owner, attaches milk cans to a home-made ...

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Dyed Egg
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Dyed Egg

Calvert, Valerie E

[1961-1962]

Decorated pasche egg dyed in onion skins, on a wooden board in a house in Workington (Cumbria).

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Sound Recording, Staffordshire

Upton, Clive S

[Mid-1970s]

Charles Brown [continued from tape LAVC/SRE/A709r], recorded in Stoke-on-Trent; talks about his work as a butcher; meat processing equipment/implements; meat display; butcher's shop fixtures and fitti...

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Sound Recording, [Location not given]

Upton, Clive S

[Mid-1970s]

Collector's father describes the old and modern methods of slaughtering cattle, sheep, lambs and pigs; talks about the treatment and processing of animal carcasses; terminology for rabbits, hare and d...

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Sound Recording, Staffordshire

Upton, Clive S

[Mid-1970s]

[Collector announcement]; Ivy Simmons [Simmonds?], recorded with her husband [?at home in Tamworth]; answers questions about names given to pig meat, making brawn and pickling; names for chickens, tur...

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Norwegian Butterdish
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Norwegian Butterdish

January 1965

Carved wooden butterdish, or Smorbutt, from the Sogn og Fjordan region (Norway). The butterdish is wrapped in a linen tablecloth and woollen ribbons, made by a traditional weaver from Sogn og Fjordan ...

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