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Total number of records: 18

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buildings18
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dwellings18
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occupations16
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agriculture12
animals10
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culture9

Top 10: People and organisations

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Barry, Michael V (1935-)4
Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)4
Parry, David (1937-)3
Kylstra, Henk E2
Tilling, Philip M (1938-)2
Annet, Mrs F. E.1
Baynes, Martin1
Blake, Fred1
Blake, Mrs1
Carter, Lindsay1
Basement Dwellers
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Basement Dwellers

[1970s]

Copy of a photograph dating from the late-19th/early-20th century, of two adult females, three girls and one boy [?a family] outside a basement dwelling at an unidentified (English) location. The door...

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Farm Lad and Bull

[1970s]

Copy of a photograph dating from the turn of the 19th/20th century, of a young farm lad with a short-horn bull, outside a farmhouse in Thixendale (North Yorkshire). The bull has a ring through its nos...

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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...

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Sound Recordings, Essex and West Yorkshire

Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)

[1960s]

Martin Baynes, recorded in Henham (Essex); talks about his working life; jobs on leaving school, scaring birds, riding the chain horse at harvest time; working with horses from the age of 14/15; worki...

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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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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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Sound Recording, Isle of Man

Barry, Michael V (1935-)

November 1958

[Collector announcement]; Amanda Crellin, recorded in Ronague; talks about cancer; prevalent diseases in her youth; smoking; hospital; food and drink in her father's time; going to school barefoot; ma...

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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, Wiltshire

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

1960

James Shipway, recorded in Avebury; talks about thatching; the loss of tradespeople in the village; reference to the renovation of a barn in the village [by the National Trust, now the Great Barn]; tr...

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Sound Recordings, Devon and Cornwall

Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009); Wakelin, Martyn F

March 1963

[Stanley Ellis announcement]; Samuel Snell, recorded on his farm in Swimbridge; talks about the bad winter of 1962/1963; farming sheep and beef bullocks; Devon Closewool [sheep breed]; discuss sheep f...

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Sound Recordings, Powys

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

[1960s]

[Collector announcement (Ellis)]; Mr. ?Richards, recorded outside in Llanafan-fawr [undated]; talks about the electricity supply to the area; fire grates in local houses; peat burning; local dwellings...

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Sound Recording, Buckinghamshire

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

1967

Francis Hutt, recorded in Horton; talks about building and thatching corn stacks; clipping hedges; market gardening; milk round with pony - first job, aged eleven; carters' wages; ploughing and horse ...

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