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Stable Interior: Tack Room
Brunk, Wille
May 1967
Tack room of stables at Cleveland House Farm, Hutton Gate (North Yorkshire), showing harnesses, reins, etc. The stables were built in the 1860s for the housing of Cleveland Bay horses. Mounted on Phot...
Stable Interior: Tack Room
Brunk, Wille
May 1967
Tack room of stables at Cleveland House Farm, Hutton Gate (North Yorkshire), showing harnesses, reins, etc. The stables were built in the 1860s for the housing of Cleveland Bay horses. Mounted on Phot...
Clog Factory: Finishing Room
August 1971
Clogger nailing uppers and wooden soles together, at F. Walkley's clog factory, Huddersfield. A narrow leather strip is placed over the upper and sole before they are nailed together. Stacks of comple...
The Dwelling House: Rooms, Fittings, Utilities, Etc.
1969-1979
This file contains items on various aspects of the dwelling house, with a focus on fittings and equipment and domestic utilities. This includes an article by Marie Hartley and Joan Ingilby on farm kit...
Harold Orton Research Room Commemorative Sign
Winters, Nancy
June 10th 1980
This sign was produced for the opening on June 25th 1980 of a research room in the University of Leeds, commemorating the name of Harold Orton .
Harvest Supper Setting
[1960s]
Display showing a room decorated for a Wolds harvest supper, at an unidentified Yorkshire museum. The scene shows a long table and benches set for at least twelve people, with candles, jugs, bread, pi...
The Mantelpiece
Cane, Rosemary
1971
A dissertation examining the question of what some people keep on their mantelpieces - which objects are placed there, and why - and to what extent the owners are conscious of the mantelpiece as a fea...
Auctions
1967-1972
This file contains items relating to auctions and auction houses, and includes Stella Margetson's article on old London auction rooms, extracted from 'Country Life' (16 November 1967), pp. 1267-1270; ...
Source Lists
1975-1980
This file contains a typed list of the books held in the Orton Research Room (as at 1980), and source lists compiled by Margaret Jackson and Brenda Neale for the subjects Education (1975), Folklore an...
Wakeman's House, Ripon
[1960s]
Board-mounted photograph of the upstairs room of the Wakeman's House in Ripon (North Yorkshire). The building is timber-framed, and is believed to have been built during the 16th century. The photogra...
Survey of English Dialects Editorial Team
[Late 1960s/early 1970s]
Harold Orton in the Survey of English Dialects (SED) editorial room at the University of Leeds, with three members of the SED editorial team including (clockwise from Orton) Philip Tilling, an unident...
Survey of English Dialects Editorial Team
[Late 1960s/early 1970s]
Harold Orton (centre) in the Survey of English Dialects (SED) editorial room at the University of Leeds, with four members of the SED editorial team including (clockwise from Orton) Philip Tilling, Gr...