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Total number of records: 12

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Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture9
Cookery Collection1

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dwellings12
buildings9
culture9
community life7
manners and customs7
folklore6
occupations6
humor5
persons5
folk music4

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Great Britain2
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Allen, Agnes2
Allen, Jack2
Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)2
Thomson, Sydney2
Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019)1
Carter, Lindsay1
Gledhill, James1
Hudleston, Nigel A1
Lowe, Harry1
Macdonnell, Randal1

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The story of your home

Allen, Agnes; Allen, Jack

1949

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The story of your home

Allen, Agnes; Allen, Jack

1949

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Sound Recordings, West Yorkshire

Thomson, Sydney

November 1972

The children of Royal Park Primary School, Headingley, Leeds, recorded on the 21 November 1972; talk about poems and writing stories; Christmas presents, trees, decorations; collector talks about Chri...

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Sound Recordings, West Yorkshire

Thomson, Sydney

November 1972

Children of Armley Park School, recorded in Leeds on the 17 November 1972; talk about joke and story telling; stories about local women thought to be witches; collector talks about trick or treating; ...

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Broom Hall, Sheffield
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Broom Hall, Sheffield

[1960s]

Board-mounted photograph of the front of Broom Hall, Sheffield (South Yorkshire). The house is a three-story Tudor-built mansion, the earliest parts of which date to the reign of Henry VII (1509-1547)...

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Glossaries, Etc.

Hudleston, Nigel A

[1950s]

These files contain four undated typed papers, annotated in ms., containing dialect glossaries (mostly Yorkshire based) and data on Yorkshire folklife, and diagrams illustrating wagons and cottages. ...

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The lost houses of Ireland

MacDonnell, Randal; Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019)

2002

Includes bibliographical references (page 231) and index. Ballynegall -- Bermingham House -- Blarney Castle -- Borris House -- Castle MacGarrett -- Clonalis -- Dromoland Castle -- French Park -- Gay...

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Sound Recording, Monmouthshire

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

[1960s]

Mr. Padfield, recorded in Crosskeys [undated]; talks about the local landscape and afforestation; boom time for coal mines during World War One; economic slumps and unemployment, dole and soup kitchen...

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Sound Recordings, Cambridgeshire

Tammivaara, Irmeli

July 1975

[Collector announcement]; Harry Lowe, recorded in Stretham on the 24 July 1975; talks about food and the cost of living; working on a carrier's cart to Cambridge; farm labourers' wages; being an appre...

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Sound Recordings, West Yorkshire

Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)

[1960s]

James Gledhill, recorded in Golcar; talks about working in a woollen cloth textile mill - processes, differences between spinning/producing woollen and worsted materials; leisure time, including a des...

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Sound Recording, British Columbia (Canada)

Smith, Peter

7 January 1977

Lindsay Carter, recorded in New Denver [continued from tape LAVC/SRE/A865]; talks about working in a silver mine in Sandon, 4000 feet below ground; describes the mine, mining machinery, the placing of...

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Sound Recordings, Lancashire

Taylor, Monica

[1970-1972]

Female informant [possibly the collector's mother], recorded in Haslingden ; talks about and recites a poem with the first line, At number one Bolton yard; sings 'Where oh where is my Norah?' [first l...

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