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Battenburg Lace Collar ; T.2017.149 Fichu Collar- back and front ; T.2017.147 Unnamed man working as a bodger on a pole lathe at Howick Historical Village.; La Roche, Alan; P202187.09 Unnamed man working as a bodger on a pole lathe at Howick Historical Village.; La Roche, Alan; P2021.87.08 Grant Christianson, working as a bodger on a pole lathe at Howick Historical Village.; La Roche, Alan; P2021.87.07 Grant Christianson, working as a bodger on a pole lathe at Howick Historical Village.; La Roche, Alan; P2021.87.06 Grant Christianson, working as a bodger on a pole lathe at Howick Historical Village.; La Roche, Alan; P2021.87.05 Close up of Grant Christianson, working as a bodger on a pole lathe at Howick Historical Village.; La Roche, Alan; P2021.87.04 Grant Christianson, working as a bodger on a pole lathe on the verandah of Sergeant Barry's cottage with a volunteer in costume, on a Live Day at Howick Historical Village.; La Roche, Alan; P2021.87.03 Richard Lees, working as a bodger on a pole lathe outside de Quincey's cottage on a Live Day at Howick Historical Village.; La Roche, Alan; P2021.87.02 Richard Lees, working as a bodger on a pole lathe on a Live Day at Howick Historical Village.; La Roche, Alan; P2021.87.01 Arthur White building Bycroft's flour mill in Howick Historical Village.; La Roche, Alan; April 1992; P2021.86.18

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