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The Rope Maker

Hanna, Sam (1903-1996)

[1960s]

Copy of Sam Hanna's film, 'The Rope Maker', filmed at the workshop of ropemaker Mr. T. G. Outhwaite, in Hawes ( Wensleydale). The film includes footage of rope being made according to traditional meth...

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Sound Recording, North Yorkshire

Brooks, Margaret

16 February 1973

Myers Johnson, recorded [?at home] in Kettlesing [daughter also present]; gives biographical information and talks about the Dacre parish (his birthplace); closure of local chapels; wartime recollecti...

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Sound Recordings, Cambridgeshire

Tammivaara, Irmeli

June 1974

[Collector announcement]; May Hard, recorded in Pymore on 13 June 1974; talks about her father's job as a blacksmith, shoes for horses and donkeys, cart repairs, making harrows, repairing/sharpening p...

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Sound Recordings, Derbyshire

Massarella, Mr

[1960s]

Unidentified female informant, recorded in Charlesworth [by male collector, from Canterbury]; talks about cotton mills and rope works in the area; changes in the village, including new housing and tra...

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Sound Recordings, Herefordshire and Worcestershire

Bulmer, A Gillian

[1974-1980]

Copy tape of fieldwork recordings. The original recordings were made in April 1974. The date when this copy tape was made is not known. [Collector announcement]; Harry Williams, recorded in Longtown...

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Sound Recordings, Cambridgeshire

Tammivaara, Irmeli

July 1974

[Collector announcement]; Mary Dawson, recorded in Doddington on the 8 July 1974; recollects her childhood in Doddington; marriage; children; skating matches; changes to the village; trandling for bir...

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Corn Dolly
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Corn Dolly

Sanderson, Stewart (1924-)

1963

Corn dolly, bought at a pub in Monk Fryston (North Yorkshire) by Professor A. Norman Jeffares, hanging from a ceiling.

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Corn Dolly
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Corn Dolly

Sanderson, Stewart (1924-)

[1963/1964]

Corn dolly, bought at a pub in Monk Fryston (North Yorkshire) by Professor A. Norman Jeffares, hanging from a ceiling at an unidentified location. Mounted on Photo File card. With ms. note.

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Woman's handiwork in modern homes

Harrison, Mrs Burton (1843-1920); Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019)

1882

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