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Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019)1
Burdekin, J.1
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Harvest Supper Setting
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Harvest Supper Setting

[1960s]

Display showing a room decorated for a Wolds harvest supper, at an unidentified Yorkshire museum. The scene shows a long table and benches set for at least twelve people, with candles, jugs, bread, pi...

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Behind closed doors : at home in Georgian England

Vickery, Amanda; Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019)

[2009]

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Rag Rug Maker
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Rag Rug Maker

[1970s]

Woman working at a table in a dwelling house at an unidentified location. A bag of rags, and lengths of rag wound into balls can be seen on the table, where the woman is making a rag rug.

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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 ...

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