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metal trade33
occupations33
implements, utensils etc25
play11
culture9
handicraft9
material culture9
museums8
woodworking industries4
agriculture3

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Langhorne, Richard30
Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)2
Bainbridge, Charles1
Banks, William1
Barry, Michael V (1935-)1
Bateman, Mr Alf1
Bill1
Brothwell, William Richard1
Burnett, Bill1
Dipon, Mrs E. A.1

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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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Needle Supports (Handknitting)

Langhorne, Richard

18 June 1964

Four brass needle supports from the northern Dales, part of the Whitehead Collection at the Castle Museum, York. Mounted on Photo File card with LAVC/PHO/P1355, LAVC/PHO/P1356 and LAVC/PHO/P1357.

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Needle Supports (Handknitting)

Langhorne, Richard

18 June 1964

Four brass needle supports from the northern Dales, part of the Whitehead Collection at the Castle Museum, York. Mounted on Photo File card with LAVC/PHO/P1354, LAVC/PHO/P1356 and LAVC/PHO/P1357.

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Needle Supports (Handknitting)
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Needle Supports (Handknitting)

Langhorne, Richard

18 June 1964

Four brass needle supports from the northern Dales, part of the Whitehead Collection at the Castle Museum, York. Mounted on Photo File card with LAVC/PHO/P1354, LAVC/PHO/P1355 and LAVC/PHO/P1357.

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Needle Supports (Handknitting)

Langhorne, Richard

18 June 1964

Four brass needle supports from the northern Dales, part of the Whitehead Collection at the Castle Museum, York. Mounted on Photo File card with LAVC/PHO/P1354, LAVC/PHO/P1355 and LAVC/PHO/P1356.

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Needle Supports (Handknitting)

Langhorne, Richard

18 June 1964

Ten knitting needle supports from the Bradford district (West Yorkshire), part of the Whitehead Collection at the Castle Museum, York. They include metal supports, turned wood supports and a leather p...

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Needle Supports (Handknitting)

Langhorne, Richard

18 June 1964

28 wooden and metal needle supports from the collection of Alderman Singleton of Baildon (West Yorkshire). They include brass cavalier leg supports (examples of foot preoccupation sticks), turned wood...

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Needle Supports (Handknitting)
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Needle Supports (Handknitting)

[1960s]

Postcard print of carved and turned wooden needle supports, and metal needle supports, from the collection at the Textile Department, Bankfield Museum, Halifax (West Yorkshire). Unmounted.

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Needle Supports (Handknitting)

Langhorne, Richard

18 June 1964

Six fancy wooden and metal needle supports from the collection of Mrs. E. A. Dipon of Alston (Cumbria). Includes a support dated 1847 with heart and diamond decoration; a stick bag, or poke, of chamoi...

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Needle Supports (Handknitting)

Langhorne, Richard

18 June 1964

Four chain needle supports from the collection of Charles Bainbridge of Middleton in Teesdale. The supports were made at the Nenthead mines when Mr. Bainbridge worked there as a miner, and appear neve...

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Chainmakers' Forge
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Chainmakers' Forge

Langhorne, Richard

1973

View of the forge at Noah Bloomer & Sons chainmakers, Cradley Heath, Sandwell (West Midlands), showing chainmaker taking a bar of iron out to be bent into chain links. Mounted on Photo File card with ...

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Chainmakers' Forge: Making a Link

Langhorne, Richard

1973

Chainmaker making a link at Noah Bloomer & Sons chainmakers, Cradley Heath, Sandwell (West Midlands). The chainmaker hammering in the central bar of the chain link. Mounted on Photo File card. With ms...

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