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A Yorkshire football scrapbook, 1909–95

The Upper Dales Folk Museum opened in 1979 and is now known as the Dales Countryside Museum. Its collections shed light on thousands of years of life in Yorkshire, and include a series of scrapbooks started by a local historian, as museum manager Fiona Rosher explains.

CAN YOU DESCRIBE THE SCRAPBOOK TO ME?

This particular scrapbook is the 52nd of 133 donated by Norah Worth, who lived in the village of Gayle.

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