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Total number of records: 8

Count of Collection group

Collection groupCount
Brotherton Collection8
Gypsy, Traveller and Roma Collections8

Top 10: Place

PlaceCount
England3
Somerset2
Carlisle1
Crieff1
Cumbria1
Dunkery Beacon1
Dunkery Hill1
Perth & Kinross1
Scotland1
Winsford1

Count of People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Alfred C Phillips8
Vowles, Alfred Charles8

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Phillips (Alfred Charles). “Fern Picking Gypsies." “Fern-picking Gypsies”

Vowles, Alfred Charles

31/Mar/1955

Typescript (6 page) account of “Fern-picking Gypsies” -an account of events in mid 1940s of some Gypsy/Travellers picking ferns from National Trust land at Dunkery, Exmoor for sale to fishmongers ...

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Photograph."Perthshire Tinkler Gypsy."1957.

Vowles, Alfred Charles

13 Sep 1957

Photograph of a woman holding wood shaving flowers mounted on paper with a hand written caption that reads: “ A Perthshire Tinkler-Gypsy - Mistress H. Cameron. We met her on the Muthill - Crieff roa...

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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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Photograph of "Gypsy King's Palace Kirk Yetholm"

Vowles, Alfred Charles

May 1960

1.Photograph mounted on thin paper with a typed note: "Gypsy King’s Palace, Kirk Yetholm, Scottish Border. Recently sold. Photograph by A.C. Phillips. May, 1960."

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Phillips (Alfred Cowles) "Exmoor Gypsy Note"

Vowles, Alfred Charles

9/Jul/1949

Handwritten account of a place known as 'Gypsy Corner,' Winsford, (Somerset) as told to the author by a member of the Williams Family. Written in Kinnarstadir, Iceland, 9 July 1949, holograph manusc...

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Photograph.3 Gypsy Traveller women.Perthshire.1957.

Vowles, Alfred Charles

13 Sep 1957

Photograph of 3 women walking on a track. Older woman in the middle carrying a basket and two younger women either side carrying wood shaving flowers, Mounted onto a paper with a written account by ...

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Photograph of transfer of the Romany Collection to Leeds

Vowles, Alfred Charles

2nd Mar 1950

Photograph showing the removal van at the home of DUR, moving the Romany Collection to the University.

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Photograph of horsedrawn carriage. Carlisle.1955.

Vowles, Alfred Charles

1955

Photograph of horsedrawn carriage with caption, "Clattering up the Glasgow Road out of Carlisle. 1955 (Unknown Gypsy). By A. G. P."

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