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architecture54
buildings54
handicraft54
occupations54
agriculture45
nature44
community life39
food37
food crops37
animals34

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Barry, Michael V (1935-)14
Kylstra, Henk E7
Tilling, Philip M (1938-)6
Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)5
Shaw, David H4
Wright, John T4
Kissling, Werner (1895-1988)3
Liman, Ingemar (1938-)3
Berntsen, Howard N2
Ernest2
Herbert Morrison's Cottage
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Herbert Morrison's Cottage

McNay, Ian

September 1965

View looking towards hand ropemaker Herbert Marrison's stone cottage in Castleton (Derbyshire). Four people stand in front of the cottage.

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Farmhouse with Spinning Gallery
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Farmhouse with Spinning Gallery

Kissling, Werner (1895-1988)

[1960s]

Farmhouse with spinning gallery where flax and wool would have been spun, Newbiggin-on-Lune (Cumbria). Mounted on Photo File card with LAVC/PHO/P0112. With typed note on spinning galleries.

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Farmhouse with Spinning Gallery
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Farmhouse with Spinning Gallery

Kissling, Werner (1895-1988)

[1960s]

Farmhouse with spinning gallery where flax and wool would have been spun, Newbiggin-on-Lune (Cumbria). Mounted on Photo File card with LAVC/PHO/P0111. With typed note on spinning galleries.

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Spinning Gallery
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Spinning Gallery

Kissling, Werner (1895-1988)

[1960s]

Spinning gallery, where flax and wool would have been spun, at a farmhouse in Newbiggin-on-Lune (Cumbria). Mounted on Photo File card. With typed notes on spinning galleries.

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Stained Glass Window
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Stained Glass Window

[1970s]

Stained glass window in a church at an unidentified location, viewed from the interior of the church. The centre panel shows the Crucifixion.

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Haugh Lathes: Wall
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Haugh Lathes: Wall

Liman, Ingemar (1938-)

October 1967

Detail of ruined stone wall at Haugh Lathes (east), near Conistone ( Wharfedale). Cattle grazing to right of lathe. Mounted on Photo File card.

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North Wassa Lathe: Gable

Liman, Ingemar (1938-)

October 1967

View of dry stone walled fields and gable end of stone-built North Wassa Lathe, Wassa Hill, near Conistone ( Wharfedale). Mounted on Photo File card with LAVC/PHO/P0211.

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Stone Dwelling House
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Stone Dwelling House

Danaher, K

[1960s]

Stone dwelling house with dry stone wall in front, at High Bradley (North Yorkshire).

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Thatching in Warwickshire

Green, K R

1966

An investigation into the practice of thatching in 1966 in the rural areas of south Warwickshire and the Oxfordshire border, based on fieldwork visits and interviews with four working thatchers made d...

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Conistone Survey Contact Prints: Film II
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Conistone Survey Contact Prints: Film II

July 1971

Contact prints of photographs taken during a Survey of Vernacular Architecture around Conistone ( Wharfedale), undertaken by students on the Museums Association Diploma Curatorial Course in Folk Life ...

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Thatching in Wiltshire

Withers, Rosalind

1983

A dissertation which looks briefly at the history of thatching from earliest times, and then more particularly at thatching in Wiltshire in former years. The study also investigates thatching in the e...

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Sound Recordings, England

Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009); Barry, Michael V (1935-); Francis, W Nelson (1910-2002)

[1960s]

Compilation of extracts from field recordings made between 1953 and 1959 as part of the Survey of English Dialects, dubbed and edited from gramophone disc copies by Reg Ross of the University of Leeds...

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