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Mcnay, Ian31
Marrison, Herbert15
Kissling, Werner (1895-1988)10
Brunk Wille3
Varley, Tom3
Green, Miranda J2
Barry, Michael V (1935-)1
Duckett, Archibald (1885-1885)1
Earnshaw, David R1
Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)1
Dry Stone Wall Landscape
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Dry Stone Wall Landscape

Kissling, Werner (1895-1988)

July 1962

View of the patterns of dry stone walls around the Swaledale village of Healaugh.

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Track and Dry Stone Walls
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Track and Dry Stone Walls

Kissling, Werner (1895-1988)

May 1965

Farm track running between 2 dry stone walls at Thorpe ( Wharfedale).

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Handknitting
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Handknitting

Kissling, Werner (1895-1988)

August 1962

Elderly female handknitting using traditional curved needles and sheath, Gayle ( Wensleydale).

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Handknitting
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Handknitting

Kissling, Werner (1895-1988)

August 1962

Elderly female handknitting using traditional curved needles and sheath, Gayle ( Wensleydale).

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Dry Stone Wall
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Dry Stone Wall

Brunk Wille

1967

Dry stone wall running along the roadside, near Helmsley (North Yorkshire).

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Ropemaking: The Dog
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Ropemaking: The Dog

McNay, Ian

September 1965

Device used in ropemaking known by Herbert Marrison as the dog; Peak Cavern, Castleton (Derbyshire).

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Hay Ropemaking
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Hay Ropemaking

McNay, Ian

1966

Male holding a completed length of hay rope, in a field on the Lleyn Peninsular (North Wales).

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Dry Stone Wall Field System
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Dry Stone Wall Field System

Brunk Wille

1967

View of fields near Hinderwell (North Yorkshire), showing dry stone wall field divisions.

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Hay Ropemaking
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Hay Ropemaking

McNay, Ian

1966

Four men (two seated and two standing) making hay rope, Lleyn Peninsula (North Wales).

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Hay Ropemaking
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Hay Ropemaking

McNay, Ian

1966

Four men (two seated and two standing) making hay rope, Lleyn Peninsula (North Wales).

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Bell Ropes
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Bell Ropes

McNay, Ian

September 1965

Bell ropes at St. Edmund's Church, Castleton (Derbyshire). The ropes used are made by local ropemaker Herbert Marrison.

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Hay Ropemaking
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Hay Ropemaking

McNay, Ian

1966

Three men (all standing) joining two strands of hay rope together, in a field on the Lleyn Peninsular (North Wales).

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