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Total number of records: 402

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Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture347
Cookery Collection54

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food402
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community life153
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Kissling, Werner (1895-1988)231
Scott, Mrs M. E.64
Fothergill, George William48
Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)46
Raw, David23
Fothergill, Mrs14
Barry, Michael V (1935-)13
Orton, Harold (1898-1975)11
Hodgson, John Oswald9
Lenihan, J M A7

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Archive File:
MS 411
c.1914
Mainly in pencil; loosely sewn into a limp cloth wrapper originally part of a different volume and bearing in gold stamp 'The Scottish Temperance League Register 1914'; partially paginated (f.1r = p.3...
Archive Item:
LAVC/PHO/S006
[1950s-1960s]
Experimental printed word map, completed in ms., for SED question V.8.9, to Brew Tea, mapping responses Mas(k), Mash, Wet, and Soak. The map was created by Harold Orton.
Archive Item:
LAVC/PHO/P0194
December 1974
Circular wooden maize store with conical thatched roof, on exhibition at the open-air Village Museum in Bucharest. Mounted on Photo File card.
Archive Item:
LAVC/SRE/D/1/D03
24 Nov 1938
[Side 1] Reg recites anecdote of Billy, a regular drinker, and his wife, Mary, hauling him out of bar and sending him home, describes how one Saturday night Billy nearly choked to death on fried tripe...
Archive Item:
LAVC/PHO/S032
[Mid 1950s-1960s]
Experimental printed word map with responses for SED question III.12.10, Scraps (i.e. the leftovers from rendered lard).
Archive Item:
LAVC/PHO/P0330
1964
Dressed stone cottage with pear tree trained up the front, at Carlton ( Coverdale). Mounted on Photo File card with LAVC/PHO/P0329. With ms. notes.
Archive Item:
LAVC/PHO/P0353
1964
Black leaded Victorian range inside stone dwelling house in Carperby ( Wensleydale). Young male informant lifting grate; rag rug in foreground. At the time of photographing, the range and its fittings...
Archive Item:
LAVC/PHO/P0354
1964
Elderly female informant tending fire in black leaded Victorian range inside stone dwelling house in Carperby ( Wensleydale). The range and its fittings were still in use at the time of photographing....
Archive Item:
LAVC/PHO/P0355
1964
Black leaded Victorian range with various fittings, inside stone dwelling house in Carperby ( Wensleydale). The range and its fittings were still in use at the time of photographing. Mounted on Photo ...
Archive Item:
LAVC/PHO/P0356
1964
Black leaded fireplace with rekkans bar, from which cooking utensils were suspended, at a dwelling house in Marrick ( Swaledale). The bar was probably produced by the village blacksmith. Mounted on Ph...
Archive Item:
LAVC/PHO/P0357
June 1965
Fireplace in 17th century stone house in Langrigg (North Yorkshire), showing side oven (for baking bread) and keeping hole. The fireplace is typical of the period, and has a loose fire-grate and fitti...
Archive Item:
LAVC/PHO/P0358
June 1965
Fireplace in 17th century stone house in Langrigg (North Yorkshire), showing side oven (for baking bread) and keeping holes. The fireplace is typical of the period, and has a loose fire-grate and fitt...