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Total number of records: 20

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Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture15
Business Archives4

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textile industry20
occupations15
clothing and dress10
community life10
persons10
agriculture8
animals8
nature8
culture7
english language - dialects7

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Upton, Clive S4
Kissling, Werner (1895-1988)2
Barker, Benjamin (1838-)1
Edward Ripley and Son1
Hart, Solomon Alexander (1806-1881)1
Hartshorne, Brian1
Higgenbottom1
Higginbottom, Mr Bernard1
Hilton, Mr Arthur1
Houck, Charles L1

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Witton, Lesley A

1971

View of the back of an elaborately decorated rag-and-bone show cart, in Harry Taylor's yard in Leeds (West Yorkshire). The decoration includes a pony/horse and bunches of grapes. Slide 12 in a serie...

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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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Sheep-Shearing: Apedale
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Sheep-Shearing: Apedale

Kissling, Werner (1895-1988)

July 1967

Swaledale sheep in a sheep fold/pen, some shorn and others awaiting shearing, Apedale (North Yorkshire). A shearer can be seen throwing wound fleeces into the back of a truck. Mounted on Photo File ca...

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Sheep-Shearing: Apedale
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Sheep-Shearing: Apedale

Kissling, Werner (1895-1988)

July 1967

Swaledale sheep in a sheep fold/pen, some shorn and others awaiting shearing, Apedale (North Yorkshire). A shearer can be seen throwing wound fleeces into the back of a truck. Mounted on Photo File ca...

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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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Sound Recordings, Lancashire

Taylor, Monica

[1970-1972]

Female informant [possibly the collector's mother], recorded in Haslingden ; talks about and recites a poem with the first line, At number one Bolton yard; sings 'Where oh where is my Norah?' [first l...

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William Rhodes Limited, Business Archive

1845-1937

----------- Please see the attached Concordance.pdf to ascertain the relationship between the numeration of the records and the shelf numbers used by Special Collections. ----------- Birkenshaw ...

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