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  • Title: Rural sheep sale

    Type: Image

    Date Published: Unknown

    Description: Black and white photograph showing a flock of sheep watched by a crowd of interested onlookers and buyers at this rural auction.

  • Title: 100-year-old hunt supporter

    Type: Image

    Date Published: 1970

    Description: A rider in his younger days, 100-year-old William Symonds was a life-long hunt supporter. A widower, he lived at Pigeon House Farm, Maund Bryan, near Bodenham. For 50 years he walked the puppies for the North Herefordshire Hunt, giving them a basic training before joining the working pack. Story appeared in the Western Daily Press September 4th, 1970.

  • Title: Herefordshire Miss Farmer, Doris Jones

    Type: Image

    Date Published: Unknown

    Description: Black and white photographic portrait of Doris Jones, Herefordshire Miss Farmer. She is seated on a pony with two dogs. Her father's farm was at Craswall. Doris rode her pony over the hills to collect any orphan sheep, with pedigree border collies, Moss and Roy. Doris was treasurer for Longtown YFC. Item appeared in the Western Mail, March 25th, 1957.

  • Title: Two men in field

    Type: Image

    Date Published: Unknown

    Description: Black and white photograph showing a poacher, Jimmy Brookes, and a younger man, Iran Davies, both of Fownhope. Jimmy lived on a small holding, which is now the Scotch First Estate in the village. His son and daughter lived up Common Lane to live at The Folly, former home of another Derek Evans study from the Fownhope Club Walk, Edmund Gange Fortescue.

  • Title: View of Risbury

    Type: Image

    Date Published: Unknown

    Description: Black and white landscape photograph of the view of Risbury. Some crop can be seen growing in very straight lines from one side of the image to the other.

  • Title: Sheep shearing

    Type: Image

    Date Published: Unknown

    Description: Black and white photograph showing one man shearing a sheep - quite the task!

  • Title: Children with lambs

    Type: Image

    Date Published: Unknown

    Description: Black and white photograph of three children hugging lambs and a sheep.

  • Title: Cow with orphaned lambs

    Type: Image

    Date Published: Unknown

    Description: Black and white photograph of a cow feeding orphaned lambs.

  • Title: Craftsman creates gypsy caravan - to order!

    Type: Image

    Date Published: Unknown

    Description: Black and white photograph showing George Cox and his employee Albert Wood putting the doors on a traveller caravan. Mr Cox is reported to have been the only man in Britain still making traditional caravans in the 1960s. He worked into the eighties and lived to be over 100. This particular model was scheduled to wander the lanes of Somerset. He would not name his customer or the price: 'The gipsies [sic] don't like that sort of thing'. This appeared in the Birmingham Post on June 20th 1960

  • Title: Fred Able with his cart, donkeys & dogs

    Type: Image

    Date Published: Unknown

    Description: Black and white photograph of one-man circus Fred Able with his cart, donkeys & dogs. The signs read, 'rats on TV'. Able once had a television contract. The circus comprised two donkeys, pulling his 7" x 4" wagon, which housed 50 performing mice, 15 rats, two dogs and a pigeon. The wagon was also Fred's home. This item appeared in the Guardian February 21st, 1961.

  • Title: Fred Able with rats and dogs

    Type: Image

    Date Published: Unknown

    Description: Black and white photograph of Fred Able and his one-man circus. Able's wagon is said to have carried 50 mice, fifteen rats, and a pigeon as part of the circus, as well as his two dogs.

  • Title: Apple harvest

    Type: Image

    Date Published: Unknown

    Description: The gentleman, pipe firmly fixed in mouth, harvests apples.

  • Title: Man on ladder picking pears from tree

    Type: Image

    Date Published: Unknown

    Description: Black and white photograph of a man on a ladder picking pears from a tree.

  • Title: Man dressed as a Victorian policeman

    Type: Image

    Date Published: Unknown

    Description: Black and white photograph of a man dressed as a Victorian policeman - likely taken in the village of Bosbury as part of their Victorian style game of cricket event.

  • Date of Burial: 18th August 1910

    Plot Number: 4025

    Consecrated: Unconsecrated

  • Date of Burial: 6th September 1910

    Plot Number: 1

    Consecrated: Consecrated

  • Date of Burial: 13th September 1910

    Plot Number: 4100

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  • Date of Burial: 1st October 1910

    Plot Number: 4055

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  • Date of Burial: 20th October 1910

    Plot Number: 4101

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  • Date of Burial: 8th November 1910

    Plot Number: 4099

    Consecrated: Unconsecrated

  • Date of Burial: 21st November 1910

    Plot Number: 4103

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  • Date of Burial: 14th December 1910

    Plot Number: 4104

    Consecrated: Unconsecrated

  • Date of Burial: 4th January 1911

    Plot Number: 328

    Consecrated: Consecrated

  • Date of Burial: 13th January 1911

    Plot Number: 151

    Consecrated: Consecrated

  • Date of Burial: 1st February 1911

    Plot Number: 327

    Consecrated: Consecrated

  • Date of Burial: 6th February 1911

    Plot Number: 326

    Consecrated: Consecrated

  • Date of Burial: 9th February 1911

    Plot Number: 4098

    Consecrated: Unconsecrated

  • Date of Burial: 10th February 1911

    Plot Number: 2

    Consecrated: Consecrated

  • Date of Burial: 13th February 1911

    Plot Number: 51

    Consecrated: Consecrated

  • Date of Burial: 14th February 1911

    Plot Number: 152

    Consecrated: Consecrated

  • Date of Burial: 28th February 1911

    Plot Number: 4097

    Consecrated: Unconsecrated

  • Date of Burial: 16th March 1911

    Plot Number: 4105

    Consecrated: Unconsecrated

  • Date of Burial: 22nd March 1911

    Plot Number: 4054

    Consecrated: Unconsecrated

  • Date of Burial: 30th March 1911

    Plot Number: 101

    Consecrated: Consecrated

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