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Name: Green/Greene, John

Reference: Carlton Hill Q1

Meeting: Brighouse MM 1688-1704

Place: Brighouse

Pages: 128-131, 167


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Green

c. 1960 - 2015

Cuttings from various auction catalogues of furniture by makers trading under the name 'Green'.

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Green

Clark, Tom (1941-)

1971

Poems.

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Name: Green [Greene Grene], Thomas 1654-1714;

Reference: Carlton Hill G1

Meeting: Brighouse MM 1700-1776

Place: of Brighouse Meeting

Pages: present 11, 15, 17, l9-28, 30, 32-53; on disciplinary appointment 28, 30, 31, 41-6, 49; deceased 54


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Green-Green : or, The nunnery parrot. A poem

Gresset, Jean Baptiste Louis (1709-1777)

1762

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Green Abstract
Painting

Drawing

Sentinel (Green)

Boswell, Phoebe (1982-)

2021

This portrait of a fisherman near the artist’s family home in Zanzibar, Tanzania, honours the man’s resilience, reflection, inquiry, and right to refusal in the face of climate change, tourism and...

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GREEN, S

1914-1918

(1898-) (Typescript) Driver/Gunner, Royal Field Artillery; Detailed memoirs of his Service from enlistment in Bradford in 1915 to 1919, which includes Egypt, Salonika and Palestine; (41 pages).

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Thorp Green
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Thorp Green

30 March 1843

Single page torn from notebook containing manuscript draft of poem titled 'Thorp Green' The upper half is written in ink and the lower half is written in pencil. Part of a group of manuscripts (BC M...

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Strand on the Green
Painting

Strand on the Green

Bowyer, Jason (1957-2019)

c. 1997

Framed, unglazed.

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GREEN, WH

1970-1999

(1897-) (Tape 551/ Transcript). 2nd Lieutenant, 3rd Battalion, King's Own Royal Lancaster Regiment, 5th Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Regiment; Describes in detail trench life on the Somme and the Y...

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