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Kissling, Werner (1895-1988)3
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Sound Recordings, Kent

Ross-Glass, Ruth M

c.1975-1980

Recordings of children made at four Kent schools, and adults attending Further Education institutions and a Young Wives' Group. In each case, the informants discuss ten fairy tales, selected by the co...

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Dales Pony
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Dales Pony

Kissling, Werner (1895-1988)

July 1966

Informant R. L. Peacock with thoroughbred modern Dales working pony, Scarhouse Farm, Muker ( Swaledale). Mounted on Photo File card. Also mounted on the card is a newspaper cutting from the 'Northern ...

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Horse-Drawn Vehicles

1965-1972

This file contains items relating to horse-drawn carriages and wagons, etc., and includes a mounted black and white photograph of strickles and mounted postcard depicting an illustration (19th century...

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Wooden Salving Bowl
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Wooden Salving Bowl

Kissling, Werner (1895-1988)

August 1964

Mr. J. C. Richardson holding wooden salving bowl with long, flat handle, Thornton Rust ( Wensleydale). Mounted on Photo File card with LAVC/PHO/P0779. With ms. note on salving, and reference to LAVC/F...

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Wooden Salving Bowl
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Wooden Salving Bowl

Kissling, Werner (1895-1988)

August 1964

Wooden salving bowl with long flat handle, belonging to Mr. J. C. Richardson, Thornton Rust ( Wensleydale). Mounted on Photo File card with LAVC/PHO/P0778. With ms. note on salving, and reference to L...

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Visions and Sounds

1967-1971

This file contains mounted magazine cuttings from 'Country Life', including 1 photocopy, on ghostly apparitions and sounds. The subject matter includes phantom horse-drawn coaches, ghostly music, phan...

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Animal Sports

1972-1973

This file contains J. N. P. Watson's article, 'Lakeland's Oldest Hunt', on the Melbreak Hunt, extracted from 'Country Life' (19 October 1972), pp. 944-945; and a photocopy of a cutting on the bull rin...

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Sound Recordings, [Liverpool]

Bond, Francis Keith

[1973/1974]

Unidentified male (a policeman during and after World War Two) talks about Civil Defence, the Blitz on Liverpool and area, wartime spirit, the emergency services, rationing and food, anecdotal inciden...

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Nailmaking, Blacksmiths, Steel, Etc.

1963-1974

This file includes a typed transcript of an interview between Fred Hobbis and E. John Penny on nailmaking in Northfield, Birmingham (June 1963); Evelyn Leonard's article on Tom Merrill and hand-forgin...

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Farm Buildings

1954-1979

This file contains items on farmhouses and other buildings traditionally found on working farms. The larger part of the file includes items from the period 1965-1979; cuttings and articles extracted f...

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A Study of the Foundation Legend of Holyrood Abbey, Edinburgh, and Related Motifs

Rosling, Jean

1983

M.A. dissertation which examines the foundation legend of Holyrood Abbey in Edinburgh ( 'Chronicon anglo-scoticum') and analogous miraculous stag/deerhunt/church founding legends. The Introduction inc...

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Clothing and Footwear - General

1966-1971

This file contains items relating to clothing and footwear in general, and includes a photocopy of the section on clothing from a chapter on material culture, explaining aspects to consider when resea...

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