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Total number of records: 8

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Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture4
Business Archives3

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textile industry8
culture4
occupations4
english language - dialects3
handicraft3
agriculture2
architecture2
buildings2
business records2
community life2

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People and organisationsCount
Orton, Harold (1898-1975)2
Blake, Fred1
Blake, Mrs1
Bushby, Lawrence1
Day, Fred1
Franklin, John1
Freeman, Mr.1
Hall, Ron1
Horsler, Frank1
Hoyle, Mrs.1

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Archive Collection

William Ackroyd, Otley Mills, Business Archive

William Ackroyd Limited

1817-1963

Comprises various ledgers, notebooks, legal documents, cash and wages books, and books concerning stock balances. -------

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Additional papers of the Leeds White Cloth Hall

1756-1897

The Leeds White Cloth Hall papers (MS 283) were listed in Handlist 2, now supplemented by the list on pp 484-517 of The West Riding Cloth industry : a catalogue of business records, compiled by Patric...

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Archive File

The Living Dialect of Eskdale (Cumbria): A Descriptive and Historical Survey

Macdonald, Claire

1975

A study of the dialect spoken in Eskdale in Cumbria, based on data collected through fieldwork interviews with two principal informants, Billy Hartley and John Porter, both resident in Eskdale Green. ...

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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...

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Thomas Benson Pease, plans and related materials from the Sheepscar estate

Pease, Thomas Benson (1782-1846)

1839-1880

Includes samples of cloth, plans of the estate, sketches of properties on the estate and a schedule of purchased from the estate.

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William Hanson and Company Limited, Business Archive

William Hanson and Company Limited

1924-1954

Comprises: 1) Credit ledgers, 1931-1951; 2) Debit ledgers, 1927-1950; 3) Invoice day-books for payments, 1929-1951; 4) Day-book for receipts, 1943-1951; 5) Wage books, 1924-1950; 6) Purcha...

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Sound Recordings, Wiltshire

Wright, John T; Kylstra, Henk E; Orton, Harold (1898-1975)

1960

James Shipway, recorded in Avebury; talks about thatching; the loss of tradespeople in the village; reference to the renovation of a barn in the village [by the National Trust, now the Great Barn]; tr...

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A Grammar of the Dialect of Addingham in the West Riding of Yorkshire

Moody, Frederick William

1950

A study of the dialect spoken in Addingham and its immediate neighbourhood in the late 1940s, based on fieldwork data collected from eight principal informants. An Introduction presents information on...

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