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Total number of records: 19

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nature19
animals16
culture15
community life14
occupations13
food11
buildings9
agriculture8
english language - dialects7
transportation7

Top 10: People and organisations

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Hartley, Dorothy5
Tammivaara, Irmeli3
Bulmer, A Gillian2
Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)2
Attebery, Louie W (1927-)1
Barnes, John1
Barwell, Carol A1
Barwell, Kenneth1
Barwell, Mary1
Beresford, Jackie1

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"Gypsy Caravans"

[1970s]

Copy of a photograph taken by Dorothy Hartley, ca. 1920, of two horse-drawn Gypsy Traveller caravans on the road at an unknown (English) location.

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"Gypsy Caravans"

Hartley, Dorothy

[1970s]

Copy of a photograph taken ca. 1920 of two horse-drawn Gypsy Traveller caravans on the road at an unknown (English) location. Mounted on Photo File card.

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"Gypsy Caravan and Boy"

Hartley, Dorothy

[1970s]

Copy of a photograph taken ca. 1920 of a young boy with a dog, standing outside a traditional Gypsy Traveller caravan at an unknown (English) location. Mounted on Photo File card.

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"Gypsy Camp"

Hartley, Dorothy

[1970s]

Copy of a photograph taken ca. 1920 at a Gypsy Traveller camp at an unknown (English) location. A hare has been hung from a tree by its back legs and will be eaten later. Mounted on Photo File card.

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"Gypsy Family"

Hartley, Dorothy

[1970s]

Copy of a photograph taken ca. 1920 of a Gypsy Traveller family sitting outside their caravan in an unknown (English) location. The family consists of two parents, five children and a baby. The family...

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Sound Recording, North Yorkshire

Oldroyd, Charles H

6 Sep 1976 - 9 Sep 1976

Fred Longthorne, of Greenhow Hill, talks about lead mining in Nidderdale, and Greenhow Hill in particular: tools, local mines, clothing, shoes, discovering Stump Cross Caverns; mining career in the 19...

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Sheep Washing Painting
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Sheep Washing Painting

Kissling, Werner (1895-1988)

[1960s]

Photograph of a painting by Fred Lawson of sheep washing in Apedale Beck ( Apedale) ca. 1920. Mounted on Photo File card. With typed notes on sheep washing, including a passage quoted from the 'Mornin...

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Sound Recordings,

Barwell, Carol A

27 December 1978

[Collector announcement: informant, date]; Kenneth Barwell [collector's father] talks about family Christmases in the 1960s and mid 1970s; meaning of Christmas; cards, Christmas trees. [Tr. 8]

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Sound Recordings, Herefordshire

Bulmer, A Gillian

[1974-1976]

Mr. Reeves, ex-employee of H. P. Bulmer (cider producers), and curator of Leominster Museum, relates a story of a woman who, thinking they were dead, plucked some geese to take to Leominster market. W...

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Sound Recordings, County Durham

Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009); Walsh, N Gordon

[1962]

Mr. Dawson, recorded in Medomsley in conversation with Stanley Ellis; talks about his job as a butcher; methods/techniques of killing cattle and processing; meat cuts and modern butchering; apprentice...

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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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