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Found in 82 Collections and/or Records:

Mr. Walter Winans' Park Team Driven By Mr. F Vivian Gooch, 1870s-1930s

 Item
Identifier: Coll-1434/3070
Scope and Contents

Photograph of Mr. Walter Winans' Park horse team of four being driven across a field by Mr. F Vivian Gooch in 1913.

Dates: 1870s-1930s

Note about carbhanach or bream, 1894

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW122/154
Scope and Contents

Note about carbhanach or bream that it is 'got on rivers in parts of England'.

Dates: 1894

Note about dogs dying and accompanying story about a faithful dog, October 1892

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW126f/46
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Note about dogs dying and accompanying story about a faithful dog collected from Duncan Macniven 'Don[nachadh] Pharuig', aged 88, Airds, Earra Ghàidheal/Argyllshire. Duncan tells how dogs go away from home to die and that shepherds know this to be the case. He also tells how a man in Glencoe [Gleann Comhann] went to work in England and every day at the same time his dog went out to wait for him and wept until it eventually died.

Dates: October 1892

Note entitled 'Wolves', c1892

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW122/108
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Note entitled 'Wolves' stating that there was a hospital in Flixton, Folkton, Yorkshire [Sasainn/England] 'to preserve travellers from being devoured by the wolves and other wild beasts of the district.' This was said to be in the time of Athelstane and Carmichael adds a reminder to 'See Leprosey (sic)'. Text has been scored through in pencil.

Dates: c1892

Over the Fences: Palace Hunting Contest, 1870s-1930s

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Identifier: Coll-1434/3066
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Photographs of racehorses jumping over the fences at the Palace hunting contest in the early 20th century. The top images shows, J C Gillam's horse, "Donovan" jumping a fence and which was the winner of the Palace Ladies' hunting contest. The bottom image shows W E Hamer's horse, "Alaska" jumping a fence, but failed to make the final.

Dates: 1870s-1930s

Papers of Sir Charles Lyell

 Fonds
Identifier: Coll-203
Scope and Contents
  1. 10 boxes of correspondence
  2. 2 boxes of miscellaneous papers and lecture notes
  3. 24 boxes of offprints of papers
  4. 294 notebooks
Dates: 1820-1874

Papers relating to Raised Beaches, 1890s-1900s

 Series
Identifier: Coll-74/3
Scope and Contents

The Papers relating to the Raised Beaches series consist of:


  1. Correspondence, notes and illustrations concerning Raised Beaches and other related geological matters.
Dates: 1890s-1900s

Polo Pony Sire (Bred in Arab), "The Bey", 1870s-1930s

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Identifier: Coll-1434/2140
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Photograph of the Polo pony sire (bred in Arab), "The Bey" which was 14.1 hands high and won many first prizes standing in a paddock in the early 20th century. He was owned by G Norris of Midwood, The Grange, North Rode, near Congleton, [England].

Dates: 1870s-1930s

Proof copy of article on 'The Geological Influences which have Affected the Course of British History', 1881

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Identifier: Coll-74/8/4
Scope and Contents First proof copy of an article by Sir Archibald Geikie on 'The Geological Influences which have Affected the Course of British History' from printers Clay, Sons and Taylor, for Macmillan the publisher in 1881. This looked at ancient peoples and legendary figures, puting them in the context of the evolution of the natural world. Including elements such as the impact of the devlopment of commerce and the move from an agricultural to an urban industrial society, Sir Archibald Geikie mapped them...
Dates: 1881

Querys to Sr Humphrey Mackworth June 1706, June 1706

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Identifier: Coll-33/Quarto A [49.2]
Scope and Contents A list of questions about the manner of valuation of Welsh assets in light of political "Accession" to England. The precedents were doubtless of interest to Gregory, about to start intensive work on analogous Scottish issues in connection with the Act of Union, which came into force within a year. Calculating the customs and excise "Equivalent" compensatory payment was almost certainly the particular job before him here. Sir Humphry Mackworth (1657-1727) was a Shropshire politician and...
Dates: June 1706