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Kissling, Werner (1895-1988)5
Cherry, Bertha1
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Mitchell, Sarah L G1
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Norman, Win1

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Local Woodcrafts

Walton, James

1940

Article on the history of woodcrafts in the Halifax/ Calderdale area, published in the 'Transactions of the Halifax Antiquarian Society' (dated 5 October 1940). Includes sections on the woods themselv...

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Smelting Mill: Langthwaite
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Smelting Mill: Langthwaite

1966

Copy of a photograph of the interior of the octagonal smelting mill at Langthwaite taken in 1910. Massive roof timbers visible. Mr. Waller, the Arkengarthdale estate joiner, in foreground. The mill wa...

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Disused Watermill: Water Wheel
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Disused Watermill: Water Wheel

Kissling, Werner (1895-1988)

1966

Water wheel at disused watermill, Newsham (North Yorkshire). Mounted on Photo File card with LAVC/PHO/P1307 and LAVC/PHO/P1308.

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Disused Watermill: Water Wheel
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Disused Watermill: Water Wheel

Kissling, Werner (1895-1988)

1966

Water wheel at disused watermill, Newsham (North Yorkshire). Mounted on Photo File card with LAVC/PHO/P1306 and LAVC/PHO/P1308.

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Disused Watermill and Water Wheel
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Disused Watermill and Water Wheel

Kissling, Werner (1895-1988)

1966

View of disused water mill showing water-wheel, Newsham (North Yorkshire). Mounted on Photo File card with LAVC/PHO/P1306 and LAVC/PHO/P1307.

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Disused Water Wheel
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Disused Water Wheel

Kissling, Werner (1895-1988)

[1960s]

Disused water-wheel at a water mill in Reeth ( Swaledale). Mounted on Photo File card with LAVC/PHO/P1311.

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Disused Water Wheel
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Disused Water Wheel

Kissling, Werner (1895-1988)

[1960s]

Disused water-wheel at a water mill in Reeth ( Swaledale). Mounted on Photo File card with LAVC/PHO/P1310.

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Woodworkers' Tools

1972-1973

This file contains typed correspondence from W. L. Goodman to Stewart Sanderson and Tony Green on the terminology of woodworkers' tools from the 16th and 17th centuries (23 December 1972 - 6 April 197...

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Runes

[ca. 1960s-1970s]

This file contains 14 photocopied plates showing diagrams, tables and maps of and relating to objects with runic inscriptions. These comprise figures of the Ruthwell Cross, the Bewcastle Cross, the Fr...

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Miscellaneous Contact Prints
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Miscellaneous Contact Prints

[1960s]

Sheet of contact prints with images of shepherds' crooks and their manufacture (14); a fish on a chopping board (1); and a ruined stone church and old churchyard, including LAVC/PHO/P2141-2142 (3). Th...

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Priston Mill: A Study of a Working Corn Mill

Mitchell, Sarah L G

1980

A study which takes Priston Mill ( Priston, Somerset) as a working example of material culture, within a more general discussion of milling and its history. The first of its five sections presents a b...

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Sound Recordings, Bedfordshire

Shaw, David H

1959-1960

Alf Odell, recorded in Gravenhurst in November 1959; describes the process of thatching a haystack/rick; his working clothes and the tools used [ Bert Kefford and Doris Kefford join in]; Mr. Kefford a...

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