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handicraft26
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Barry, Michael V (1935-)5
Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)5
Tammivaara, Irmeli4
Bury, Jack2
Pate, Allan2
Shaw, David H2
Tall, William2
Wakelin, Martyn F2
Wharton, Colin S2
Adcock, Mr1

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Roads and Tracks

1963-1973

This file contains mounted magazine cuttings from 'John Peel Jottings' and 'Country Life', on bridges, cobble-laying, an ancient causeway in Wiltshire, an old tidal cart track at South Foreland (Kent)...

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Dales Landscape
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Dales Landscape

[1970s]

View of landscape at an unidentified location in the Yorkshire Dales(?). The view looks down a winding road with a dry stone wall running alongside, down a valley, with high ground in the background.

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Dry Stone Wall and Gate
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Dry Stone Wall and Gate

Kissling, Werner (1895-1988)

May 1965

Dry stone wall with wooden gate on the Burnsall Road at Bolton Abbey ( Wharfedale). The gate is flanked by 2 large upright stones, which are appended to each end of the wall.

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Sound Recordings, [Devon]

Panheinen, Ossi

[1970]

Mr. Collins [location not given] talks about flour milling; flour mill and working conditions; milling machinery and processes; cider; wages and working conditions; wages on leaving school; Christmas;...

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Sound Recording, North Yorkshire

Sullivan, Keith Frederick

11 December 1976

[Collector announcement]; Thomas Simpson, recorded at home in Lebberston; talks about his singing; sings 'All Jolly Fellows that Follow the Plough', and talks about the subject of the song (ploughman'...

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Sound Recordings, Cambridgeshire

Tammivaara, Irmeli

July 1975

[Collector announcement]; Alice Baker, recorded at Pymore on the 17 July 1975 [continued from tape LAVC/SRE/A673r]; talks about March dust storms; floods of 1912 and 1950s; the condition of local (dro...

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Sound Recordings, Essex

Berntsen, Howard N

1959-1961

Arthur Wapling, recorded in East Mersea; talks about farming methods; ploughing with horses - describes a stetch, dividing the field, (water) furrows and drainage; modern day farming - compares workin...

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Sound Recordings, Cambridgeshire

Tammivaara, Irmeli

June 1974

[Collector announcement]; May Hard, recorded in Pymore on 13 June 1974; talks about her father's job as a blacksmith, shoes for horses and donkeys, cart repairs, making harrows, repairing/sharpening p...

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Sound Recordings, Cambridgeshire and Essex

Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)

[1961]

Male informant, recorded in Comberton; talks about working on a farm from the age of eleven; his father and his farming; thatchers in the family; informant learning to thatch; describes a day's work; ...

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Sound Recordings, Devon

Stigell, Ossi

1976

Mr. Webber of Craze Lowman [continued from tape LAVC/SRE/A691r] talks about travelling to school by horse and trap; road menders and stone breakers; Christmas; ashen faggots (fuel); Harvest Festival; ...

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Sound Recordings, England

Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)

[1950s/1960s]

Compilation of extracts from field recordings made as part of the Survey of English Dialects. These extracts were copied from gramophone disc recordings, with announcements by Stanley Ellis . A spea...

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Sound Recordings, West Yorkshire

Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)

[1960s]

James Gledhill, recorded in Golcar; talks about working in a woollen cloth textile mill - processes, differences between spinning/producing woollen and worsted materials; leisure time, including a des...

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