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Total number of records: 22

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architecture22
buildings22
occupations22
play22
handicraft20
agriculture19
community life16
nature16
food15
food crops15

Top 10: People and organisations

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Kylstra, Henk E4
Barry, Michael V (1935-)3
Kissling, Werner (1895-1988)3
Shaw, David H3
Wright, John T3
Ernest2
Maynard, George (1900-1900)2
Orchard, Bill2
Packer, Ernie2
Smith, George2
Farmhouse with Spinning Gallery
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Farmhouse with Spinning Gallery

Kissling, Werner (1895-1988)

[1960s]

Farmhouse with spinning gallery where flax and wool would have been spun, Newbiggin-on-Lune (Cumbria). Mounted on Photo File card with LAVC/PHO/P0112. With typed note on spinning galleries.

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Farmhouse with Spinning Gallery
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Farmhouse with Spinning Gallery

Kissling, Werner (1895-1988)

[1960s]

Farmhouse with spinning gallery where flax and wool would have been spun, Newbiggin-on-Lune (Cumbria). Mounted on Photo File card with LAVC/PHO/P0111. With typed note on spinning galleries.

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Spinning Gallery
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Spinning Gallery

Kissling, Werner (1895-1988)

[1960s]

Spinning gallery, where flax and wool would have been spun, at a farmhouse in Newbiggin-on-Lune (Cumbria). Mounted on Photo File card. With typed notes on spinning galleries.

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The Living Dialect of Barton in South Nottinghamshire

Greensmith, Pauline R

1958

A study of the dialect spoken in Barton in Fabis, Nottinghamshire, based on fieldwork interviews undertaken in 1957 with three male informants. An introduction to the village and the informants is f...

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Straw Crafts

[1970s]

Straw crafts exhibit at the Museum of English Rural Life, University of Reading. The display includes a piece of roof thatch with the various tools and implements used to make, maintain and repair it;...

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Roads and Tracks

1963-1973

This file contains mounted magazine cuttings from 'John Peel Jottings' and 'Country Life', on bridges, cobble-laying, an ancient causeway in Wiltshire, an old tidal cart track at South Foreland (Kent)...

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Corn Dollies

Liman, Ingemar (1938-)

[1960s]

Contact print strip with images of a pattern carved into the stone of the church wall (1), a view of the church interior (1), and close-up detail of a male's hands as he weaves a corn dolly (4). The i...

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Sound Recordings, Wiltshire

Wright, John T; Kylstra, Henk E; Orton, Harold (1898-1975)

1960

Mr. Hitchcock, recorded in Netheravon; talks about his parents; Ernest Kent; the pronunciation of the words gate and post [Orton questions]; ploughing; the pronunciation of the word horses; Orton ques...

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Conistone Survey Contact Prints: D
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Conistone Survey Contact Prints: D

July 1971

Contact prints of photographs taken during a Survey of Vernacular Architecture around Conistone ( Wharfedale), undertaken by students on the Museums Association Diploma Curatorial Course in Folk Life ...

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Sound Recordings, Berkshire, Surrey, Essex and West Sussex

Barry, Michael V (1935-)

1959

[Collector announcement]; Charles Allen, recorded in West Ilsley; talks about ploughing with horses; ploughing with tractors; compares past and present; describes a working day on the farm; the villag...

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Sound Recording, Hampshire

Wakelin, Martyn F

1964

Charles Sheppard, recorded in Bishop's Sutton; talks about working with pigs; rook starving [scaring] after the corn sown; scarecrows; service in the Rifle Brigade during World War One, in France; ret...

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Sound Recordings, Bedfordshire

Shaw, David H

1950s-1975

The first two [?radio broadcast] recordings on this tape relate to working and community life in Luton. The first, with an introduction by Ron Hall and possibly recorded in the late 1950s, is entitled...

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