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Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)7
Kissling, Werner (1895-1988)3
Bill2
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Sheep Farmers
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Sheep Farmers

Cooper, Edmund

1966

Copy of a photographic portrait of Richard Alderson Scott and Anthony Alderson Scott, sheep farmers from Muker ( Swaledale). Mounted on Photo File card. With ms. catalogue details in the hand of Werne...

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Sheep Washing: Outgang Beck
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Sheep Washing: Outgang Beck

Kissling, Werner (1895-1988)

June 1965

Sheep washing on Outgang Beck at Thornton Rust ( Wensleydale). Sheep and lambs swimming through and climbing out of the washpool. Mounted on Photo File card with LAVC/PHO/P0624 . With ms. notes, inclu...

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Sheep Washing: Outgang Beck
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Sheep Washing: Outgang Beck

Kissling, Werner (1895-1988)

June 1965

Sheep washing on Outgang Beck at Thornton Rust ( Wensleydale). A farmer throws a sheep from the fold into the washpool. Two other sheep swim through the washpool. Mounted on Photo File card with LAVC/...

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Archive File

Folk Medicine

Wood, Richard

1965

An examination of some of the medical beliefs and practices of the past in North Yorkshire, based on printed sources (including the writing of Eliza Gutch and Richard Blakeborough), and interviews wit...

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Sound Recording, Lancashire

Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)

1963

Male informant [two women also present, ?wife and ?daughter], recorded in White Coppice; talks about his work for the Ministry catching moles and other pests; breeding/handling ferrets; rook shooting ...

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Sound Recordings, Powys

Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009); Parry, David (1937-)

[1960s]

[Collector announcement (Ellis)]; Mr. ?Richards, recorded outside in Llanafan-fawr [undated]; talks about the electricity supply to the area; fire grates in local houses; peat burning; local dwellings...

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Sound Recordings, Devon and Cornwall

Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009); Wakelin, Martyn F

March 1963

[Stanley Ellis announcement]; Samuel Snell, recorded on his farm in Swimbridge; talks about the bad winter of 1962/1963; farming sheep and beef bullocks; Devon Closewool [sheep breed]; discuss sheep f...

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Sound Recordings, Devon

Wright, John T

October 1958

[Announcement, ?by Tony Green]; Ernest Smythe, recorded in Parracombe; talks about working life on the railway (as office boy, timekeeper); gangs working on the line, and the difficulty of building it...

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Donkey Pack Saddle

Langhorne, Richard

[1970]

Front view of a donkey pack saddle from a collection at the Castle Museum, York.

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Donkey Pack Saddle
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Donkey Pack Saddle

Langhorne, Richard

[1970]

Side view of a donkey pack saddle from a collection at the Castle Museum, York.

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