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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...
Lofthouse (Sweden)
January 1965
Wooden loftbod, or lofthouse, at the open-air Upplandsmuseet (?), Gamla Uppsala (Sweden). There are two rooms on each floor of the building.
Survey of English Dialects Contact Prints
Sanderson, Stewart (1924-)
1967
Strip of six contact prints, including two photographs of thatched corn stacks in a field near Foulden (including LAVC/PHO/P1037); and four photographs of Harold Orton in the Survey of English Dialect...
West Midlands Responses: Book V, Part 2
[1960s]
Collated responses from the West Midland counties to Survey of English Dialects (SED) questions from Book V, Part 2: The House: Inside. Includes questions V.2.1 Living-Room - V.2.14 Brush.
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; ...
Norwegian Dulcimer
March 1965
Female in traditional dress, sitting at a wooden table and playing a Norwegian dulcimer, at the Norsk Folkemuseum (Norwegian Folk Museum) in Bygdøy, Oslo. The room in which the woman sits is inside o...
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...
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, Graham Nix...
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) an unidentified female edi...