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Total number of records: 53

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buildings53
community life53
wealth53
occupations50
agriculture39
nature39
animals35
food34
implements, utensils etc28
culture26

Top 10: People and organisations

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Barry, Michael V (1935-)14
Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)9
Kylstra, Henk E5
Bryon, Fiona4
Parry, David (1937-)4
Tilling, Philip M (1938-)4
Shaw, David H3
Wright, John T3
Jim2
Maynard, George (1900-1900)2
Basement Dwellers
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Basement Dwellers

[1970s]

Copy of a photograph dating from the late-19th/early-20th century, of two adult females, three girls and one boy [?a family] outside a basement dwelling at an unidentified (English) location. The door...

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The Effect of Tourism on a Highland Culture: A Study of Kilchoan, Ardnamurchan

Fisher, Nora M M

1976

A dissertation comprising five chapters. The first presents a brief history and description of the village of Kilchoan on the Ardnamurchan Peninsula. The second describes the old culture of the villag...

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Farm Lad and Bull

[1970s]

Copy of a photograph dating from the turn of the 19th/20th century, of a young farm lad with a short-horn bull, outside a farmhouse in Thixendale (North Yorkshire). The bull has a ring through its nos...

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Cheese-Making in Yorkshire

Chilcott, Margot C

1974

A dissertation on cheese-making in Yorkshire, with particular reference to farmhouse methods employed in the Swaledale area of the county. The study is divided into six chapters. The first provides ...

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Sound Recording, North Yorkshire

Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)

November 1962

James Ingleby [ Pauline Battersby also present], recorded in Litton; talks about sheep farming; orphan lambs; shepherding; weaning; the size of his farm; cattle and milking; (Wensleydale) cheese and b...

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Sound Recordings, Lincolnshire and Suffolk

Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)

1959-1960

William Brothwell and Florence Greenwood, recorded in Wragby in April 1960; talk about foxes and shooting them; Mr. Brothwell's farming career; setting a field for ploughing; livestock; thatching and ...

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Sound Recording, [West Yorkshire]

Bryon, Fiona

14 January 1981

Leslie Rosen talks about the 1970 textile strike in Leeds, and his involvement; describes background to the strike (high rate of work for low pay, disparity in male/female pay rises) and knock-on effe...

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Lowry's Town has Gone

Dixon, Beverley Anne

1980

A study of Salford, comprising six chapters. The introductory chapter includes quotations from the artist L. S. Lowry, and comments by others on his representation of people and place. The second chap...

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Sound Recording, West Yorkshire

Morris, Patricia M

July 1981

Lily Gaunt, recorded at home in the Bramley area of Leeds; gives biographical information; talks about her family; parents' occupations; her childhood home; education; starting mill work aged fourteen...

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Sound Recordings, Essex and West Yorkshire

Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)

[1960s]

Martin Baynes, recorded in Henham (Essex); talks about his working life; jobs on leaving school, scaring birds, riding the chain horse at harvest time; working with horses from the age of 14/15; worki...

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Hawker's Van
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Hawker's Van

[1970s]

Copy of a photograph taken in the early 20th century of a Gypsy Traveller girl sitting on the steps of a hawker's van at an unknown location, possibly in Herefordshire. Three different types of basket...

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Sound Recordings, Bedfordshire

Shaw, David H

1960-1961

Oscar Croot and Mrs. Oscar Croot, recorded in Riseley in 1960; Mr. Croot describes making leaded windows - transporting and fitting, geographical area covered, costs and estimates of work; describes t...

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