Title:
Show woman holding 'Cremation of a Living Human Body' sign
Type:
Image
Date Published:
Unknown
Description:
Black and white photograph of Mrs Price’s show in Commercial Road in the early 1960s with a parader holding a placard advertising ‘The Cremation of a Human Living Body’.
Information provided by:
Graham Downie
Chairman, The Fairground Association of Great Britain
Member of the National Fairground & Circus Advisory Committee, The University of Sheffield
Title:
The youngest and oldest members at the 1955 Heart of Oak Club Walk in Fownhope
Type:
Image
Date Published:
Unknown
Description:
Mr. E Fortescue Gange (aged 88), a Fownhope author and historian, had walked every procession since its inception. In this image he chats to five- year-old David Gilbert. 1955.
Title:
The fans celebrate Hereford United’s 2–1 victory over Newcastle. February 5th 1972 at Edgar Street, Hereford.
Type:
Image
Date Published:
Unknown
Description:
Black and white photograph of fans celebrating Hereford United’s 2–1 victory by storming the pitch. February 5th 1972 at Edgar Street, Hereford. Hereford United’s victory over Newcastle United is generally considered the greatest FA Cup shock of all time.
Title:
People watching a football match from trees
Type:
Image
Date Published:
Unknown
Description:
Black and white photograph of People watching a football match from trees. Before the stands were constructed, people would take to the trees to get a view of the Southern league football.
Title:
Sister Antonia Andrade, being admitted to the Order of the Poor Clares 1958
Type:
Image
Date Published:
1958
Description:
Black and white photograph of Antonia Andrade (26 years old) during the service where she became the first black woman to be admitted to the Order of the Poor Clares at Bullingham, under the name of Sister Mary Francis in 1958.
Title:
H Samuel the only entrant of a ploughing match, Hoarwithy, October 1958
Type:
Image
Date Published:
Unknown
Description:
Black and white photograph of a ploughing match. October 1958 H Samuel of Ledbury was the lone entrant in the horse ploughing class of the Llanwarne and District Agricultural Improvement Society match at Hoarwithy.
Description:
Fred Able’s one-man circus wagon was pulled by two donkeys, held fifty performing mice, fifteen rats, two dogs, and a performing pigeon. He was featured on a TV programme hence ‘Rats on TV’.
Title:
Children cooling off in the River Wye, Hereford, 1959
Type:
Image
Date Published:
1959
Description:
When the sun came out, Herefordians headed for the water at Hereford Beach. It was once a wide expanse of shingle, offering plenty of room for families to spread out and picnic and paddle in the Wye. 1959.
