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Jubilee Celebrations (Preston Guild)
22 April 1974
Copy of a photograph taken in 1952 of a street scene in Preston (Lancashire), showing houses and street furniture adorned with decorations for jubilee celebrations by the Preston Guild.
Jubilee Celebrations (Preston Guild)
22 April 1974
Copy of a photograph taken in 1952 of a street scene in Preston (Lancashire), showing a street party, organised by the Preston Guild, with children seated at long tables.
Wall Painting (Sweden)
March 1965
Slide of Anders Bengtsson's wall painting, 'The Shepherds'/ 'Herdarna', painted in 1858, Norra Bökeberg (Hallands Lan, Sweden). The painting depicts the biblical scene of the Annunciation to the Shep...
Wall Painting (Sweden)
March 1965
Slide of Anders Bengtsson's wall painting, 'The Wise Men'/ 'De Tre Vise Männen', painted in 1837, Norra Bökeberg (Hallands Lan, Sweden). The painting depicts the biblical scene of the Adoration of t...
Smithfield Wholesale Fruit and Vegetable Market, Manchester
Sutton, Carole
1971
A study of Smithfield Market in Manchester, with sections on the production and transmission of goods to the wholesaler, imported produce, the ports and importers, the Liverpool auctions, home grown p...
Harvest Supper Setting
[1960s]
Display showing a room decorated for a Wolds harvest supper, at an unidentified Yorkshire museum. The scene shows a long table and benches set for at least twelve people, with candles, jugs, bread, pi...
Sound Recording, North Yorkshire
Sullivan, Keith Frederick
5 January 1977
[Collector announcement]; Jim Wilkinson, recorded at the collector's home in Whitby; sings 'Engine 143', [unidentified fragment], [? 'Jeannie McPherson is a Person with Long Yellow Hair'] and 'Lord of...
The Silvery Slocan: History and Folklife
Smith, Peter
1977
A study of history and folklife among a mining community, the Slocan [Silver] Mining Division, in south-eastern British Columbia. The study is based on evidence from both documentary and oral sources,...
Preston Guild Photographs
[1974]
The two photographs show street scenes in Preston relating to the activities of the Preston Guild. The first shows decorations adorning houses and street furniture; the second a street party, with chi...
The Phonology of the Dialect of Spitalfields in the London Borough of Stepney
Goldsack, Beryl
1962
A study of the dialect spoken in the Spitalfields area of the London borough of Stepney, based on data collected from three local informants, interviewed over Easter 1961.
Lowry's Town has Gone
Dixon, Beverley Anne
1980
A study of Salford, comprising six chapters. The introductory chapter includes quotations from the artist L. S. Lowry, and comments by others on his representation of people and place. The second chap...
Sound Recording, North Yorkshire
Sullivan, Keith Frederick
29 November 1976
[Collector announcement, states date as 30 November]; Jim Wilkinson, recorded at home in Tranmire; talks about Yorkshire monologues; thoughts on poetry and painting and sad songs; sings 'Greenland Wha...