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"Group of Gypsies (Romania)"
Sanderson, Stewart (1924-)
December 1974
Group of Romany men quarreling on the platform of the railway station in Cluj (Romania). Mounted on Photo File card. With ms. note which describes the quarreling and subsequent events, including a des...
Stoke Bruerne Canal Museum
McNay, Ian
1966
View of the Stoke Bruerne Canal Museum (formerly the Waterways Museum) and the Grand Union Canal at Stoke Bruerne (Northamptonshire). The museum is housed in a restored cornmill.
Stoke Bruerne Canal Museum
McNay, Ian
1966
View of a lock near the Stoke Bruerne Canal Museum (formerly the Waterways Museum) on the Grand Union Canal at Stoke Bruerne (Northamptonshire).
Dialect recording in Newbiggin-by-the-Sea, Northumberland
23 Feb 1939
[Side 1] Conversation between coxswain Brown and Hunter (unplayable by current technological means). [Side 2] Conversation between Janet and Maggie about crossing to Holy Island; Hunter recites the st...
"Gypsy Caravans"
Hartley, Dorothy
[1970s]
Copy of a photograph taken ca. 1920 of a group of Gypsy Travellers standing with horse-drawn caravans, at an unknown (English) location. Mounted on Photo File card.
"Gypsy Caravans"
[1970s]
Copy of a photograph taken by Dorothy Hartley, ca. 1920 of Gypsy Travellers standing with horse-drawn caravans, at an unknown (English) location.
"Gypsy Caravans"
[1970s]
Copy of a photograph taken by Dorothy Hartley, ca. 1920, of Gypsy Travellers standing with horse-drawn caravans, at an unknown (English) location.
Folk Traditions Among the Employees of the Railway Industry at Crewe
Latham, Jean
1964
A study of the way of life of people connected with the railway industry in Crewe, and the influence that the railway community had upon them. The collector gathered information from seven male inform...
"Gypsy Family"
Hartley, Dorothy
[1970s]
Copy of a photograph taken ca. 1920 of a Gypsy Traveller family sitting outside their caravan in an unknown (English) location. The family group consists of two parents, five children and a baby, but ...
C: Communications and Trade
1963-1976
This series contains items relating to communications by land and sea, including horse-drawn vehicles; and trading and dealing, including fairs and markets.
Sound Recording, Berkshire
Baldwin, John R
1967
Dave Blagrove, recorded in Reading; sings [with ?banjo/?ukulele accompaniment] 'Sandy Lane', the Oxford boatmen's songs 'The Ballad of Tom Beechey' and 'Les Morton's Navy'; 'Maggie May', 'Farmer's Boy...
Horse-Drawn Vehicles
1965-1972
This file contains items relating to horse-drawn carriages and wagons, etc., and includes a mounted black and white photograph of strickles and mounted postcard depicting an illustration (19th century...