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community life11
nature11
occupations10
agriculture8
handicraft5
plants5
transportation5
animals4
implements, utensils etc4
land use4

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Kissling, Werner (1895-1988)4
Outhwaite, T. G.4
Bradbury, Kathleen Frances1
Casbon, Herbert1
Chapman, George Fletcher1
Easterly, Mr R.1
Haddock, Christopher1
Haddock, Elsie1
Marrison, Herbert1
Mcnay, Ian1

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Quarrymen and Draft Horse

[1970s]

Copy of a photograph dating from the early-20th century, of two quarry workers with a draft horse harnessed to a cart, in a quarry at an unidentified location. The workers and horse are standing in fr...

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Castleton Garland
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Castleton Garland

McNay, Ian

September 1965

George Bramall and an unidentified male using ropes to construct the frame upon which a flower garland is fixed. The whole construction is worn by the Garland King during the Castleton Garland ceremon...

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Making a Hay Creel
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Making a Hay Creel

Kissling, Werner (1895-1988)

June 1962

Mr. T. G. Outhwaite, ropemaker of Hawes ( Wensleydale), stringing together two hazel bows strung with with home-twisted segal twine, to form the frame of a hay creel. A large bundle of twine lies on t...

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Making a Hay Creel
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Making a Hay Creel

Kissling, Werner (1895-1988)

June 1962

Mr. T. G. Outhwaite, ropemaker of Hawes ( Wensleydale), stringing together two hazel bows strung with with home-twisted segal twine, to form the frame of a hay creel. A large bundle of twine lies on t...

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Making a Hay Creel
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Making a Hay Creel

Kissling, Werner (1895-1988)

June 1962

Mr. T. G. Outhwaite, ropemaker of Hawes ( Wensleydale), stringing together two hazel bows strung with with home-twisted segal twine, to form the frame of a hay creel. A large bundle of twine lies on t...

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Making a Hay Creel
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Making a Hay Creel

Kissling, Werner (1895-1988)

June 1962

Mr. T. G. Outhwaite, ropemaker of Hawes ( Wensleydale), stringing together two hazel bows strung with with home-twisted segal twine, to form the frame of a hay creel. A large bundle of twine lies on t...

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Horse and Water Cart
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Horse and Water Cart

[1970s]

Copy of a photograph taken in the early 20th century of farmer, Mr. R. Easterly, with a horse harnessed to a water cart in the yard of a farm in the Driffield area (East Riding of Yorkshire). The wate...

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The Derbyshire Well Dressings

Bradbury, Kathleen Frances

1971

A study of the well dressing custom observed in a number of Derbyshire villages. The first of three chapters includes sections on the origins and history of well dressing, and well dressings in litera...

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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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Farm Buildings

1954-1979

This file contains items on farmhouses and other buildings traditionally found on working farms. The larger part of the file includes items from the period 1965-1979; cuttings and articles extracted f...

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Sound Recordings, Cambridgeshire

Tammivaara, Irmeli

July 1975

[Collector announcement]; Christopher Haddock [ Albert Haddock's brother] and Elsie Haddock, recorded at Sutton Gault on the 22 July 1975; talk about wild mushrooms and mushroom picking; mushroom ketc...

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