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Total number of records: 26

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Archives23
Books and printed items2
Objects1

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Brotherton Collection26
Gypsy, Traveller and Roma Collections24

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Cumbria26
England24
Appleby15
Brough6
Carlisle1
Germany1

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Bragg, Melvyn2
Bragg, Melvyn (1939-)2
Mcgrigor Phillips, Noel2
Alfred C Phillips1
Dorothy Una Clough1
Dorothy Una Mcgrigor Phillips1
Dorothy Una Phillips1
Ratcliffe, Dorothy Una (1887-1967)1
Vowles, Alfred Charles1
Wood, G Bernard1

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From 18002
From 190024

Archive Print Item

Speak for England : an essay on England, 1900-1975 : based on interviews with inhabitants of Wigton, Cumberland

Bragg, Melvyn (1939-)

1976

First published: Secker & Warburg : London, 1976.

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Archive Print Item

Cumbria in verse

Bragg, Melvyn (1939-)

1984

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Archive File

National Council for Civil Liberties, Letter to Mrs McGrigor Phillips.

09/02/1940

Typed, and signed by the Secretary, Ronald Kidd to Mrs McGrigor Phillips regarding her enquiry about "interference with Brough Hill Fair."

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Sarginson (Thomas), Letter to Mrs McGrigor Phillips.

11/11/1939

Typed and signed letter from T. Sarginson. [Personal letter] on letterhead of the Cumberland and Westmorland Herald, (14-15 King Street, Penrith) discussing the closure of Brough Hill Fair during war...

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Ring with minature portrait of King Edward VIII

1936

Small ring with a glazed minature portrait of King Edward VIII [also Duke of Windsor] .

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Ratcliffe (Dorothy Una) Letter to the Editor of The Cumberland and Westmorland Herald.

Ratcliffe, Dorothy Una (1887-1967)

05/02/1940

Two typed carbon copies enquiring about the reason for the closure of Brough Hill Fair during wartime.

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Photograph and negative of "Gypsies at Appleby Fair.1950."

Wood, G Bernard

1950

Photograph and negative of a woman and three children in the doorway of a caravan. On the reverse, in pencil is written, "Gypsies at Appleby Fair 1950."

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Photographs (2) of caravans at Appleby Hill Fair. 1939

1939

Two black and white photographs mounted on page from album, (once 20a and 20b). 1st photograph is of a girl sat on the steps of a caravan, (vardo). 2nd photograph is another caravan, (vardo).

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Photograph of women outside wagon [caravan] at Appleby Hill Fair. 1939

1939

Photograph of women outside caravan with caption, "Appleby Hill fair. Summer 1939. Photo by NP."

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Postcard photographs of Gypsies and Travellers at Appleby.1934

1934

4 postcard photographs mounted on 1 page from the album. Postcard 1 (23a) with caption that reads, "Gypsies on the sands Appleby waiting to leave the horse fair 1934." Postcard 2 (23b) with captio...

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Photographs (2) of "Gypsies at Horse Fair, Brampton Hill. Appleby.1933.

1933

2 black and white photograph postcards of Gypsy and Traveller families with caption, "Gypsies at the Horse Fair, Brampton Hill, Appleby, Westmorland, 1933."

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