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Haymaking: Hay Sweep
[1970s]
Copy of a photograph of farmer, Mr. Fothergill, gathering hay with a wooden hay sweep drawn by a draft horse, in a field at Cowgill ( Dentdale). The photograph from which this slide is taken was proba...
Notes on Some Photographs
[1970s]
This file contains a sheet of ms. notes relating to photographs held in the LAVC photographic collections. The author is unidentified. Notes on scythes appear to be related to Werner Kissling's phot...
Sound Recordings, Yorkshire
Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)
[1960s]
Mr. Fisher of Thornhill, recorded in 1962; talks about working in a coal mine - hours of work, wages, scale picking (as a youngster); pushing tubs underground; describes the layout underground and the...
Sound Recordings, Devon and Cornwall
Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009); Wakelin, Martyn F
March 1963
[Stanley Ellis announcement]; Samuel Snell, recorded on his farm in Swimbridge; talks about the bad winter of 1962/1963; farming sheep and beef bullocks; Devon Closewool [sheep breed]; discuss sheep f...
Basket, Straw and Rope-Work
1960-1973
This file includes a photocopy of typed notes made by Rodney Cousins on basket-making, collected from H. Summers, basketmaker, Sutton-on-Trent (November 1969) and from Herbert Lloyd Johnes' 'The Baske...
Exhibition Photographs and Related Papers
[1960s-1970s]
The photographs in this file have been mounted in groups according to particular subjects. Thus, there are two sheets of eight prints showing the construction and use of a hay creel (including duplica...
Wheel
Hawley, Elizabeth K
[1961-1962]
Large wheel, part of an unidentified piece of machinery at the Forge Mill in Redditch (Worcestershire). The Mill is now in use as the Forge Mill Needle Museum.
Fishhooks
Hawley, Elizabeth K
[1961-1962]
View of equipment and machinery, and a pile of fish hooks awaiting counting down, at the Forge Mill in Redditch (Worcestershire). The Mill is now in use as the Forge Mill Needle Museum.
Sound Recordings, Bedfordshire
Shaw, David H
1950s-1975
The first two [?radio broadcast] recordings on this tape relate to working and community life in Luton. The first, with an introduction by Ron Hall and possibly recorded in the late 1950s, is entitled...