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culture99
food crops88
vehicles84
english language - dialects76

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Kissling, Werner (1895-1988)114
Liman, Ingemar (1938-)47
Fothergill, George William43
Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)27
Barry, Michael V (1935-)11
Metcalfe, Syd11
Richardson, John11
Fothergill, Mrs9
Orton, Harold (1898-1975)5
Siporin, Rae Lee5
Sheep Farmers
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Sheep Farmers

Cooper, Edmund

1966

Copy of a photographic portrait of Richard Alderson Scott and Anthony Alderson Scott, sheep farmers from Muker ( Swaledale). Mounted on Photo File card. With ms. catalogue details in the hand of Werne...

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Farmer at Sheep Washing: Outgang Beck
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Farmer at Sheep Washing: Outgang Beck

Liman, Ingemar (1938-)

June 1965

Farmer attending sheep washing on Outgang Beck at Thornton Rust ( Wensleydale). One of a strip of 6 contact prints.

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Farmers' Wives at Sheep Washing: Outgang Beck
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Farmers' Wives at Sheep Washing: Outgang Beck

Liman, Ingemar (1938-)

June 1965

Farmers' wives watching sheep washing on Outgang Beck at Thornton Rust ( Wensleydale). One of a strip of 6 contact prints.

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Farmers at Old Sheep Washing Place: Outgang Beck
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Farmers at Old Sheep Washing Place: Outgang Beck

Liman, Ingemar (1938-)

June 1965

Four farmers and a sheep dog, gathered for sheep washing on Outgang Beck at Thornton Rust ( Wensleydale). One of a strip of 6 contact prints.

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Sheep Washing: Outgang Beck
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Sheep Washing: Outgang Beck

Liman, Ingemar (1938-)

June 1965

Sheep washing on Outgang Beck at Thornton Rust ( Wensleydale). View from inside the fold: farmer wet after having climbed out of the washpool, Werner Kissling, and a farmers' wife bringing a basket of...

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Sheepwashing, Thornton Rust (North Yorkshire)

Sanderson, Stewart (1924-)

June 1965

Film taken during a visit by various members of Institute of Dialects and Folk Life Studies (IDFLS) staff to Thornton Rust ( Wensleydale) to record farmers washing sheep in Outgang Beck. The custom of...

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Sheep Washing: Outgang Beck
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Sheep Washing: Outgang Beck

Kissling, Werner (1895-1988)

June 1965

Sheep washing on Outgang Beck at Thornton Rust ( Wensleydale). A farmer stands in the washpool whilst another farmer throws a sheep from the fold into the washpool. Mounted on Photo File card with LAV...

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Sheep Washing: Outgang Beck
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Sheep Washing: Outgang Beck

Kissling, Werner (1895-1988)

June 1965

Sheep washing on Outgang Beck at Thornton Rust ( Wensleydale). A farmer's wife brings a basket of food and bottle of rum for the farmers. Mounted on Photo File card with LAVC/PHO/P0626 and LAVC/PHO/P0...

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Haymaking: Single Horse Mower
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Haymaking: Single Horse Mower

Kissling, Werner (1895-1988)

July 1962

Farmer standing with a mower drawn by a single horse for cutting hay, in Widdale ( Wensleydale). The farmer's wife also stands with the horse, holding hayrake. Mounted on Photo File card with LAVC/PHO...

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Dialect recording in Tideswell, Derbyshire

Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)

23 Aug 1952

[Side 1] David briefly talks about prize cock, tells anecdote about local farmer who played practical joke on pig-killer at 'supping time' [= drinking time] by putting 'jollop' [= cock's wattle] in hi...

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Herding Sheep
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Herding Sheep

[1970s]

Farmer/shepherd and sheep dog herding a flock of sheep into a stone fold at an unidentified location, possibly in the Yorkshire Dales.

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Sheep Washing: Outgang Beck
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Sheep Washing: Outgang Beck

Kissling, Werner (1895-1988)

June 1965

Sheep washing on Outgang Beck at Thornton Rust ( Wensleydale). A farmer stands in the washpool to hold a sheep in and wash it. Two other sheep swim through the pool. Other farmers watch from the fold....

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