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clothing and dress17
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occupations13
culture11
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english language - dialects10
textile industry10
food8
animals7
nature7

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Upton, Clive S5
Tylor, Mr2
Clarke, William1
Dinsdale, Elizabeth1
Hartshorne, Brian1
Hodgson, Herbert Raymond1
Horne, George1
Kissling, Werner (1895-1988)1
Maduakor, Robert Obiatuegwu1
Morgan, Wilf1
Handknitting
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Handknitting

Kissling, Werner (1895-1988)

1963

Miss Elizabeth Dinsdale knitting a stocking using traditional curved needles, with a sheath tucked into a belt, Hawes ( Wensleydale). A top crook holds the knitting firmly round her waist at the back....

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Farmworker and Horse

[1970s]

Copy of a photograph dating from the turn of the 19th/20th century, of a farmworker (possibly the farm foreman) with a horse at a farm in Thixendale (North Yorkshire). The horse wears a Scotch collar ...

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Farm Lad with Horse

[1970s]

Copy of a photograph dating from the turn of the 19th/20th century, of a young farm lad with a horse at a farm in Thixendale (North Yorkshire). The horse wears a plain English collar and is harnessed ...

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Calderdale Pace Eggers
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Calderdale Pace Eggers

[1960s]

Copy of a photograph of a pace egg play being performed at the Calder Valley Folk Festival, in an unidentified town in Calderdale (West Yorkshire), in 1956. The players are all children (boys). The Do...

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Brighouse Pace Eggers
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Brighouse Pace Eggers

Tylor, Mr

[1960s]

Copy of a photograph taken in the 1940s, of members of the Brighouse Children's Theatre performing a pace egg play in the open air at Brighouse (West Yorkshire). The Doctor, wearing a top hat and dark...

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Brighouse Pace Eggers
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Brighouse Pace Eggers

Tylor, Mr

[1960s]

Copy of a photograph taken in the 1940s, of members of the Brighouse Children's Theatre performing a pace egg play in the open air at Brighouse (West Yorkshire). The Doctor, wearing a top hat and dark...

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Ijele Masquerade
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Ijele Masquerade

Maduakor, Robert Obiatuegwu

1978

Card-mounted copy of a photograph taken ca. 1976 of an Ijele dancing at an Ijele Masquerade (Nigerian East Central State). The Ijele costume consists of a frame made of lightweight materials, which is...

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Sound Recording, Warwickshire

Upton, Clive S

[Mid-1970s]

Mr. D. T. Wharton, recorded in Rugby; gives answers to the collector's questionnaire concerning language and terminology associated with the butchering trade. The answers relate to the beef and pork s...

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Sound Recording, West Midlands

Upton, Clive S

[Mid-1970s]

Brian Hartshorne, a butcher recorded in Wolverhampton [continued from tape LAVC/SRE/A716r]; talks about slaughtering animals; pests and damaged meat; offal, blood and meat products; pickling; butcheri...

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Hired Lad and Team

[1970s]

Copy of a photograph dating from the turn of the 19th/20th century, of a hired lad with a three-horse team in fields at Thixendale (North Yorkshire). The horses are harnessed to a flat roll. The boy r...

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Seed Drilling Team

[1970s]

Copy of a photograph dating from the turn of the 19th/20th century, of two farmworkers with a three-horse team harnessed to a seed drill in fields at Thixendale (North Yorkshire). The man at the back ...

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Sound Recording, Herefordshire

Upton, Clive S

[Mid-1970s]

Roy Preece, recorded in Hereford; gives answers to the collector's questionnaire concerning language and terminology associated with the butchering trade. Questions relate to beef, lamb, pork and poul...

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