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Horse-drawn carriages are a major means of transport on the tiny island of Sark, where cars are unknown and even the doctor makes his rounds on a bicy(...)
Horse-drawn carriages are a major means of transport on the tiny island of Sark, where cars are unknown and even the doctor makes his rounds on a bicy(...)

Horse-drawn carriages are a major means of transport on the tiny island of Sark, where cars are unknown and even the doctor makes his rounds on a bicy(...)

Date6/8/1972
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Original Toronto Star caption: Horse-drawn carriages are a major means of transport on the tiny island of Sark; where cars are unknown and even the doctor makes his rounds on a bicycle. One of the most beautiful of the islands it has spectacularly high seaside cliffs and of bright wildflowers along every road and lane.
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CollectionToronto Star Photograph Archive
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Copyright HolderToronto Star (Firm)
Call Number / Accession NumberTSPA_0117290F
Globe hotel! Very exensive auction sale! Of superior horses, carriages, etc.
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Day-old oil: Gilles Charette makes his rounds to Markleangelo's restaurant to pick up used cooking oil from sous chef Gilbert Letort, left
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Neither rain, nor snow . . . Dr. Charles Bull isn't a postman, but he makes his appointed rounds every day - jogging and exercising despite busy sched(...)
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Only feudal seigneury on earth is Sark, a tiny island in the English channel
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A love affair with the past, Dereck Turnbull helps his bride, Kate Williams, board an 1850 horse-drawn carriage after their wedding Saturday in Black (...)
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The new host of City Line is fast, funny and never at a loss for words as she makes her morning rounds from radio station to television studio
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An act to license and regulate the duties and charges on coaches, carriages, cabs, carts, and other vehicles kept for hire in the city of Toronto : <passed June 5th, 1843>
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1843
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Illustrated catalogue of children's carriages : manufactured by American Rattan Co.
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1891