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Soaking Tanks (Basketmaking)
Aston, Michael Geoffrey
1964
Tanks for soaking sticks of willow and cane before they are worked into baskets, and bundles of willow, at Burdekin's Baskets, Flushdyke, near Ossett (West Yorkshire).
Dialect recording in Rothbury, Northumberland
Orton, Harold (1898-1975)
10 Mar 1939
[Side 1] Florrie recites the story of the little mouse and the old tom cat in Rothbury dialect; Florrie, Billy and Charlie talk about fishing (first few seconds inaudible). [Side 2] Billy and Charlie ...
Sound Recording, West Yorkshire
Malden, John
23 July 1971
J. Burdekin of Burdekin's Baskets, recorded in his workshop in Ossett; describes how to make a laundry hamper, talks about the properties of cane, apprentices and keeping willow damp [male and female ...
Willow-Growing and Basket-Making in Mawdesley, Lancashire
Blackburn, Margaret
1978
M.A. study of the willow-growing and basket-making industry in Mawdesley, Lancashire. Volume One outlines the history and organisation of the industry, and details working conditions, the training of ...
Commercial Basketmaking in the West Riding: A Study of the Craft of Basketmaking with Especial Reference to the Present-Day Basketmaking Industry in the West Riding of Yorkshire
Aston, Michael Geoffrey
1965
A study concerned with the past and present state of the basketmaking industry in the West Riding, and the manner in which the craft is practiced. The collector's observations are based largely on a s...
The Mantelpiece
Cane, Rosemary
1971
A dissertation examining the question of what some people keep on their mantelpieces - which objects are placed there, and why - and to what extent the owners are conscious of the mantelpiece as a fea...