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Archive Object File

Artificial woodshaving flowers (2)

Jun/1954

Traditional hand crafted flowers made from wood shavings, purchased in "Moffat,(Dumfrieshire)." [Dumfries & Galloway]

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Photographs (2). "Perthshire Tinkler Gypsies."1957.

Vowles, Alfred Charles

13th Sep 1957

2 separate pages, each with a mounted black and white photograph of Gypsy/Traveller women and accompanying notes reccounting Dorothy Una Ratcliffe and A. C. Phillips meeting with them in Perthshire [P...

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Correspondence between William Webb and Mrs McGrigor Phillips

1957-1958

Correspondence between William Webb and Mrs McGrigor Phillips concerning International Gypsy Mission Conferences in 1957 and 1958. 1) Letter William Webb - Mrs McGrigor Phillips 30/Apr/1957 with att...

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Reports on work of the 'Mission to [the] Tinkers'

Jan/1948 - 11/Nov/1954

Typescript reports by William Webb to the Evangelism Committee Home Board of the Church of Scotland on his work as part of the, 'Mission to Tinkers.' Reports detailing Webb's visits to [Gypsy Travel...

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Typescript papers

Webb, William

c.1940 - 1955

7 typescript accounts reflecting on William Webb's visits, people he met and his work for the Mission to [the] Tinkers. Titles include; "Tinker Bill," "Granny Cameron's Pony," "A date in my diary,"...

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Photographs

c.1934-c.1954

6 black and white[copies] photographs [photographer unknown] of [Gypsy and Travellers] in Perthshire,[Perth & Kinross]Scotland. Details of those photographed are noted on the back and listed individua...

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Photographs British Gypsy Mission

c.1961

Set of 10 black and white photographs of individuals and family groups [Gypsy Travellers]. Typed description appears in the bottom left hand of all photographs. These sometime include location and nam...

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Rambles in Northumberland, and on the Scottish border; interspersed with brief notices of interesting events in border history

Chatto, William Andrew (1799-1864)

1835

Stephen Oliver the younger = William Andrew Chatto.

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The buried barony

MacGregor, Alasdair Alpin Douglas (1899-1970)

1949

"Gypsies of the Borderland", pp. 59-86, including photographs and brief vocabulary of Gypsy words "still in use at Yetholm".

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Promenade from Dieppe to the mountains of Scotland

Nodier, Charles (1780-1844)

1822

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Caravan days

Smith, Bertram (1876-1918)

1914

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The cruise of the land yacht "Wanderer", or, Thirteen hundred miles in my caravan

Stables, Gordon (1840-1910)

1892

Gypsy references: pp. 157-8, 207.

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