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Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)1
Fursman, Mr1
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Hilton, Mr Arthur1
Marrison, Herbert1
Mcnay, Ian1
Nealey, E.1
Panheinen, Ossi1

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Natural history as a hobby

Sheppard, Thomas (1876-1945)

1908

"Reprinted from the Hull and East Yorks. teacher, July-Oct. 1908".

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Hikers
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Hikers

[1970s]

View from behind of two men with rucksacks walking along a dirt track across open moorland at an unidentified location.

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Potholers
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Potholers

McNay, Ian

September 1965

Three young male potholers, equipped with helmets and ropes, standing in front of the entrance to an unidentified cavern [possibly near Castleton in Derbyshire]. Cavers and potholers use ropes made by...

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Animal Sports: Correspondence

1963-1964

This file contains a typed letter [?from Stewart Sanderson] to Mrs. E. Fieldhouse acknowledging her sending audiotapes on cock-fighting to the Institute of Dialect and Folk Life Studies (IDFLS) (5 Jun...

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Sound Recordings, [Dorset]

Panheinen, Ossi

[1970]

Mr. Paull [location not given] relates his experiences of fighting in World War One; the Somme in 1917 and being wounded; convalescence in Wyke Regis; Paschendale Ridge; the Somme; working life after ...

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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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Sound Recordings, Derbyshire and Cheshire

Siporin, Rae Lee

May 1965

[Collector announcement]; Mr. E. Nealey, recorded in Burbage; provides biographical information; makes reference to cockfighting; an Endowed School; selling newspapers at the age of nine; aunt and unc...

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