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Jeannie Mee's script of a radio broadcast from Leeds on Friday, 16th June, 1939 describing the Yorkshire Dales Conference - the annual meeting of ministers and delegates from the Congregational Church - that took place in Keld.
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The script of a radio broadcast from Thursday, 13th April, 1939 featuring speakers from Keld, Muker and Gunnerside. ( The copy is slightly clipped top and bottom on some pages)
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Newspaper article from the Farmer's Guardian 10th September 1976

The original Rules of the Keld Mutual Intellectual Improvement Society. These are the first hand written entries in the 1854 Minute Book.

3rd April 2001 article covering the foot and mouth epidemic, featuring an interview with Raymond Calvert, Hoggarths Farm, near Keld

Written version of the Heritage Open Day public talk from the 10th September 2016

Extract from Mrs Doreen Guy's handwritten manuscript of her experience of taking a group of Keld school children on a nature walk.

Recording of Between the Ears - Alice of Crackpot Hall by David Almond for BBC Radio 3 broadcast in November 2015

Information regarding two small mining sites in Upper Swaledale

Historical information relating to the Beldi Hill & Swinnergill mining complex in Upper Swaledale.

An account of the famous Beldi Hill Trial between Lord Pomfret and Thomas Smith over mining and land ownership rights. The trials ran from 1769 - 1772

Extracts from John Parke's journal from 1769 - 1772 describing the events in Swaledale during the disputes and trials between Lord Pomfret and Thomas Smith. John Parkes and Company had leased mining ground from Thomas Smith and this ground was the…

1771 national press coverage of the Beldi Hill dispute in Swaledale.

Bobby Hutchinson provided a taxi service for Keld and the surrounding area. This is his 1930 diary showing all bookings

A collection of historical photographs of the Melbecks Parish of Swaledale.
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A collection of historical photographs of the Melbecks Parish of Swaledale.
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A collection of historical photographs depicting farming traditions in Swaledale.
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