Gurning Collection

Female Gurner
A woman gurner pulls a truely awful face through a leather ring during the gurning contest at Egremont Crab Fair, Whitehaven, Cumbria, England

Farmers pull faces at sheep sale, SW Scotland
Farmers pull their faces as they watch a sheep sale at Castle Douglas cattle market, Dumfries and Galloway, SW Scotland Date: 1999

Gipsy man pulling a gurning face, Lewes, Sussex
A gipsy man pulling a gurning face, at an encampment in Lewes, Sussex

Gurning Man
A male gurner with his ugly face through a leather ring at the gurning contest at Egremont Crab Fair, Whitehaven, Cumbria, England

Old Man Gurner
An old man gurner with his ugly face through a leather ring at the gurning contest at Egremont Crab Fair, Whitehaven, Cumbria, England

Street party Gran, Queens Jubilee Middlesbrough - 1977
Street Party Gran. Street party, Queens Jubilee Middlesbrough 1977 1977

Pulling a ridiculous expression
A German man pulls a ridiculous, daft, absurd and frankly rather manic facial expression! Date: circa 1910s

The Sexton and Sand Table at Dennington Church, Suffolk. This fascinating tray can now be found in the north aisle of the church (now a village museum)

Isaac the Gurner
This ugly man, famed for his grinning or gurning set himself up as a public grinner. This talent has a long competitive tradition and is still practiced to this day

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