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dairy products97
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occupations38
metal trade26
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house furnishings20
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Kissling, Werner (1895-1988)97
Scott, Mrs M. E.64
Horner, Will6
Bostock, Mr2
Bell, Clara1
Benson, Fred1
Chapman, Dick1
Horner, Tom1
John1
Lynas, Jack1
Buttermaking: Rolling Butter
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Buttermaking: Rolling Butter

Kissling, Werner (1895-1988)

Summer 1963

Mrs. M. E. Scott rolling butter, in her home, West Stonesdale ( Swaledale). The butter is rolled with both hands on a wooden board in order to get all the air out, and to make a close texture. Mounted...

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Cheesemaking: Cheese Bandages
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Cheesemaking: Cheese Bandages

Kissling, Werner (1895-1988)

July 1963

Mrs. M. E. Scott lifting pressed and pickled curd out of a bowl of brine in preparation for sewing calico bandages around it in order to preserve its shape, at her home, West Stonesdale ( Swaledale). ...

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Cheesemaking: Finished Cheeses
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Cheesemaking: Finished Cheeses

Kissling, Werner (1895-1988)

July 1963

Finished cheeses, dressed in calico bandages, and held in the home of Mrs. M. E. Scott, West Stonesdale ( Swaledale). The cheeses will be turned every day until ready. Mounted on Photo File card. With...

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Sound Recording, North Yorkshire

Kissling, Werner (1895-1988)

[1960s]

[Collector announcement]; Clara Bell, recorded in Askrigg; describes her traditional domestic method of making Wensleydale cheese; Dick Chapman (also of Askrigg) asks her about various aspects of chee...

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Cheesemaking: Pickling the Curd
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Cheesemaking: Pickling the Curd

Kissling, Werner (1895-1988)

July 1963

Mrs. M. E. Scott preparing to place an egg into strong pickle, or brine, to test its strength, in her home, West Stonesdale ( Swaledale). If the brine is the correct strength, the egg will float in it...

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Cheesemaking: Pickling the Curd
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Cheesemaking: Pickling the Curd

Kissling, Werner (1895-1988)

July 1963

Mrs. M. E. Scott placing an egg into strong pickle, or brine, to test its strength, in her home, West Stonesdale ( Swaledale). The egg is floating, which indicates that the brine is the correct streng...

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Cheesemaking: Pickling the Curd
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Cheesemaking: Pickling the Curd

Kissling, Werner (1895-1988)

July 1963

Pressed curds pickling in bowls of strong brine (pickle) in the home of Mrs. M. E. Scott, West Stonesdale ( Swaledale). The curd will be left in this strong pickle for two or three days. Mrs. Scott po...

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Butter Churns
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Butter Churns

Kissling, Werner (1895-1988)

September 1967

Two clay butter churns on a stone wall in Low Row ( Swaledale). The churns are of the type most generally used for buttermaking in the Dales, with a long handle which was worked rapidly up and down un...

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Butter Churns
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Butter Churns

Kissling, Werner (1895-1988)

September 1967

Two clay butter churns on a low stone wall outside a house in Low Row ( Swaledale). The churns are of the type most generally used for buttermaking in the Dales, with a long handle which was worked ra...

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Yoke and Wooden Bucket
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Yoke and Wooden Bucket

Kissling, Werner (1895-1988)

1967

Wooden yoke, bucket and lidded jug, used for collecting milk for buttermaking, Holgate Farm, Hurst Moor ( Arkengarthdale). The bucket and jug both have handles by which they can be carried either by h...

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Butter Churn

Kissling, Werner (1895-1988)

Summer 1968

Clay buttern churn, approximately 100 years old at the time of photographing, on a stone at Holgate Farm, Hurst Moor ( Arkengarthdale). This particular churn is smaller than most, suggesting that only...

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Buttermaking: Churning
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Buttermaking: Churning

Kissling, Werner (1895-1988)

Summer 1963

Mrs. M. E. Scott separating cream from milk at her home in West Stonesdale ( Swaledale). The morning's milk is being poured from a back-can, through a milk strainer, or sile, and into a large copper k...

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