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House Types
1971-1979
This file contains items relating to different types of dwelling house, including cuttings from 'The Guardian' newspaper and 'Country Life' magazine on a medieval aisled house in Castle Caereinion use...
Folklife Museum Posters
[1970-1979]
These posters include colour photographs (with accompanying text and location map) of the interior and exterior of the Scottish Fisheries Museum at Anstruther, the Avoncroft Museum of Buildings at Bro...
Villages
1971
This subseries, comprising one file, contains a two-part article by John Cornforth on the village of Old Deerfield, Massachusetts, extracted from 'Country Life' magazine (22 July 1971, pp. 214-217, an...
Ruined Farmhouse with Adjoining Barns
Kissling, Werner (1895-1988)
1965
Ruins of stone farmhouse with adjoining barns at Roan Farm, Hurst ( North Yorkshire). Mounted on Photo File card with ms. notes on Hurst village, and catalogue details in the hand of Werner Kissling. ...
Yorkshire Abbeys
Taylor, Alfred
1963
This file contains articles from Alfred Taylor's 'Bygone Abbeys of Yorkshire'/ 'Abbeys and Priories of Yorkshire'/ 'Bygone Abbeys and Priories of Yorkshire' series, published in and extracted from the...
Farm Buildings
1954-1979
This file contains items on farmhouses and other buildings traditionally found on working farms. The larger part of the file includes items from the period 1965-1979; cuttings and articles extracted f...
Builders' Customs: Topping Out
March-April 1968
This file consists of correspondence between Stewart Sanderson and various correspondents connected with the building industry, regarding topping-out ceremonies. The correspondents include Norbert F. ...
Topping Out Ceremonies
1951-1974
This file contains items relating to topping-out ceremonies, a tradition in the building industry marking either the roofing-in of a building, or the half-way stage in the construction of a building. ...
Pagan and Church Legends
1961-1972
This file contains items relating to pagan cult places, and legends and traditions connected with church history. This includes mounted magazine cuttings from 'Country Life' and 'John Peel Jottings', ...
Building Technique
1966-1973
This file contains items relating to buildings and construction techniques, and includes photocopies of maps showing the location of aisle-trusses in Welsh buildings, and aisled buildings in Yorkshire...
Collected Papers
Brunk, Wille
1965-1967
This file contains papers received and collected by Wille Brunk during his assistant lectureship at the Institute of Dialect and Folk Life Studies (IDFLS). This includes a copy of Åsa Werner-Ljungstr...
Stonework
1969-1979
This file contains items relating to stone industries and related crafts, including a photocopy of the Appendix to Horace Harman's 'Buckinghamshire Dialect' (reprinted Wakefield: S. R. Publishers, 197...