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Total number of records: 17

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community life17
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home16
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agriculture12
nature12
animals11
buildings11
handicraft10

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Barry, Michael V (1935-)7
Tilling, Philip M (1938-)4
Annet, Mrs F. E.1
Appleby, Harry1
Bragbrook, Walter1
Braybrook1
Brown, Robin1
Burnett, Bill1
Bushell, Mr William1
Crellin, Mrs Amanda1

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The Living Dialect of Great Hale, Lincolnshire

Brown, Robin

1960

A study of the dialect spoken in Great Hale in Lincolnshire, based on data collected through interviews with five local informants over the Easter to August period in 1959, printed sources and referen...

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Sedan Chair

[1970s]

Photographic postcard from the West Yorkshire Folk Museum, Shibden Hall, Halifax. The postcard shows a woman in period costume, sitting in a sedan chair which dates from ca. 1790. The door of the seda...

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Man with Handcart
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Man with Handcart

[1970s]

Copy of a photograph taken in the late-19th/early-20th century of a man sitting on a piece of luggage by the roadside, next to a handcart on which there is a wicker crate.

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Survey of English Dialects recording in Ronague, Isle of Man

Barry, Michael V (1935-)

Nov 1958

[Side 1] Amanda talks about local farms and farmhouses, recalls open fireplace in childhood home, remembers trips by horse and cart to collect ling for fire, describes apparatus for cooking and baking...

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Hawker's Van
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Hawker's Van

[1970s]

Copy of a photograph taken in the early 20th century of a Gypsy Traveller girl sitting on the steps of a hawker's van at an unknown location, possibly in Herefordshire. Three different types of basket...

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Farm Cart Aquatint

[1970s]

Photograph of an aquatint illustration by William Pyne, of a farm cart loaded with baskets being drawn by two horses. The aquatint dates from 1802.

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Miscellaneous Contact Prints
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Miscellaneous Contact Prints

[1960s]

Sheet of contact prints with images of landscape (3); 1 blank cell; gravestones (2); thatched cottage abutting modern dwelling house, and door fittings, including LAVC/PHO/P2137-2140 (6); shepherds' c...

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Conistone Survey Contact Prints: C
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Conistone Survey Contact Prints: C

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 Recording, East Sussex

Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)

[1964]

Mr. W. Glapson, recorded in Horam; talks about his smallholding and retirement from farming; farm work - mowing corn with a scythe, binding and stooking, stacking; modern farming; first jobs, aged fou...

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Sound Recordings, London, Huntingdonshire and Buckinghamshire

Tilling, Philip M (1938-); Barry, Michael V (1935-)

1967

Mr. H. J. Kent, recorded in Hackney (London); talks about bus fares in London, compared with fifty years ago; journey times compared with horse trams; thoughts on the present bus service; horse drawn ...

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Sound Recordings, Wiltshire

Wright, John T

August 1957

Ernest Kent, recorded in Netheravon; talks about driving hay waggons in the summer; Michaelmas ploughing with oxen; his father; hoeing and rates of pay; threshing with a flail; rates of pay; gleaned c...

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Sound Recordings, Suffolk

Pasanen, Leena

11 August 1971

[Collector announcement]; George Parker and Mr. Cutting, recorded at Mr. Parker's home in Pettaugh; talk about the flooding of the village in 1912; Mr. Parker working for Mr. Cutting, carting produce ...

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