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The Textile Industry in Meltham Fifty Years Ago
Johnstone, Russell D
1977
A survey of the textile industry in the village of Meltham, near Huddersfield, based on the recollections of six retired textile workers. Six chapters cover the growth of the industry around Huddersfi...
Scutching Mill
September 1966
Scutching mill (flax mill) at the Ulster Folk Museum (now Ulster Folk and Transport Museum), Cultra (County Down). The mill is stone-built with a thatched roof.
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...
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...
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...
Quarry Bank Mill: The Development of a Folk Museum
Price, Sarah M
1978
A dissertation describing the development of Quarry Bank Mill as a museum, tracing the history of the village of Styal where it is situated, the mill and, briefly, the Lancashire cotton industry. In d...
Sound Recording, [Location not given]
Upton, Clive S
[Mid-1970s]
Male informant describes his career in the Birmingham butchering trade (of forty-nine years, since the age of fourteen); talks about keeping pigs; setting up his butcher's shop; gives answers to the c...
Sound Recording, Warwickshire
Upton, Clive S
[Mid-1970s]
Mr. D. T. Wharton, recorded in Rugby; gives answers to the collector's questionnaire concerning language and terminology associated with the butchering trade. The answers relate to the beef and pork s...
Sound Recording, Herefordshire
Upton, Clive S
[Mid-1970s]
Roy Preece, recorded in Hereford; gives answers to the collector's questionnaire concerning language and terminology associated with the butchering trade. Questions relate to beef, lamb, pork and poul...
Sound Recording, West Midlands
Upton, Clive S
[Mid-1970s]
Brian Hartshorne, a butcher recorded in Wolverhampton [continued from tape LAVC/SRE/A716r]; talks about slaughtering animals; pests and damaged meat; offal, blood and meat products; pickling; butcheri...
Scutching Mill Cottage
September 1966
Scutching mill (flax mill) at the Ulster Folk Museum (now Ulster Folk and Transport Museum), Cultra (County Down). The mill is stone-built with a thatched roof. The mill's waterwheel can be seen in th...