Special Collections and Archives

Includes Students' Union communications, events programmes and handwritten posters, Geological Society events, Film Society events, College of St Paul and St Mary student bulletins and Christian Union events and programmes, student ID cards, club membership cards, prospectus for BSc Geography & Geology, St Paul's and St Mary's College Geological Society T-shirt, student production programmes, Summer Ball programmes, RAG Mags, sports fixture booklets, correspondence regarding admission to college, Cheltenham Table Tennis Association newsletters, handbooks and newspaper cuttings, photographs and information on the Degree Ceremony 9 November 1984

Low, Stephen

Memorial and thanksgiving service programme for William Edward Hardwick

D360
Series
24 March 1956

Part of University Archive Miscellaneous Donations (D-Numbers)

Held in St Paul's College Chapel by the Dean of Worcester. William Edward Hardwick was and old student and representative governor of St Paul's College

Kemeys, Brenda

Metal St Mary’s College badge

Part of University Archive Miscellaneous Donations (D-Numbers)

Pritchard, Joan M

Minature Cheltenham Training College vase with college crest

Part of University Archive Miscellaneous Donations (D-Numbers)

Description reads "Model of Ostend vase A.D. 1617. Found inside a fishing smack in the fisherman's dock at Ostend. Now in Ostend Museum". Produced by W H Goss

Miscellaneous photographs of life at St Paul’s College

Part of University Archive Miscellaneous Donations (D-Numbers)

Showing buildings, sporting and musical events, physical education and art classes, science lessons, bee keeping and feeding pigs and chickens, teaching practice, maid’s bedroom and an unidentified teacher

Photographer unknown

Catchpole, M W J

Mounted photographs of St Paul's College students

Part of University Archive Miscellaneous Donations (D-Numbers)

Photographer unknown

Includes Tarsus Press students, carol singing on the back stairs and back porch and catering staff in the Dining Hall. Includes explanatory notes and names. Christmas 1962. Also includes accompanying letter from Tom Maddock to the Archivist, 26 March 2001

Maddock, Tom

"My Life Story" by Peter Brooks, St Paul's College student 1947 - 1949

Part of University Archive Miscellaneous Donations (D-Numbers)

Compson, Mike

"Nature of Geography" and "Explanation in Geography" explanation sheets for St Mary's College BEd students

D361
Series
c.1973, 1987

Part of University Archive Miscellaneous Donations (D-Numbers)

Includes accompanying note from Grace Reeves, 1 August 1987

Reeves, Grace

Needlework and handicraft by Pamela Ragbourne, St Mary's College student 1945-1947

Part of University Archive Miscellaneous Donations (D-Numbers)

Includes collar and cuffs, experimental weaving, blanket and herringbone stitches, tacking stitches, inkle weaving and tablet weaving. Also includes St Mary's College blazer badge

Ragbourne, Reverend Pamela

Needlework by Lizzie Ann Johnson, Peckham Road Board School

Part of University Archive Miscellaneous Donations (D-Numbers)

Johnson, Lizzie Ann

Needlework "Sampler" and "Teaching Apparatus: Use of Bias Binding" needlework teaching aid

Part of University Archive Miscellaneous Donations (D-Numbers)

Includes letter from Margaret Rawling, August 1988

Rawling, Margaret

Needlework specimen book belonging to Edith Johnston, student at St Mary's Hall

Part of University Archive Miscellaneous Donations (D-Numbers)

With examples of fabric and patterns attached

Johnson, Edith

Needlework specimen book belonging to Iris D Greener whilst at St Mary's Hall

Part of University Archive Miscellaneous Donations (D-Numbers)

Includes samples of material and patterns attached

Greener, Iris

Needlework specimen book belonging to Nellie Knight

Part of University Archive Miscellaneous Donations (D-Numbers)

With patterns and fabric attached. Also paper entitled “First lesson in Herring boning”

Knight, Nellie

Needlework specimens by St Mary’s students

Part of University Archive Miscellaneous Donations (D-Numbers)

Unknown

Newspaper article from the Cheltenham Chronicle "Secrets of our town's vitality", "Dickens would have seen Northleach prison hell" and "Cheltenham a century ago"

Part of University Archive Miscellaneous Donations (D-Numbers)

Unknown

Newspaper article on Dean School, Plymstock, Devon, with reference to W H Worthy [Cheltenham Training College 1903-1905]

D265
Series
22 February 1979

Part of University Archive Miscellaneous Donations (D-Numbers)

Unknown

Newspaper article on retirement of H W Vanstone as headmaster of Cirencester Council Boys’ School

Part of University Archive Miscellaneous Donations (D-Numbers)

Unknown

Newspaper articles from the Gloucestershire Echo on St Paul's College and St Mary's College

Part of University Archive Miscellaneous Donations (D-Numbers)

Article on performance "Edmund, King and Martyr", a musical drama by St Paul's College lecturer Tony Richards and Tony Hewitt-Jones. 21 February 1974

Article with photograph of a St Paul's College student and a St Mary's College student taking part in a sponsored rickshaw marathon. 25 February 1974

Unknown

Newspaper articles relating to RAG 1966

D581
Series
19 and 26 March 1966

Part of University Archive Miscellaneous Donations (D-Numbers)

Includes article in the Cheltenham Chronicle and Gloucestershire Graphic and the Western Daily Press. Features photographs of RAG Queen Susan Jane Atherton

Unknown

Newspaper cutting from Gloucestershire Echo “Those Were The Days” column for article on St Paul’s College Football team 1908

Part of University Archive Miscellaneous Donations (D-Numbers)

Heaton, John

Obituary of Deaconess Mabel Walker, St Mary’s student 1917-1919, from the Gloucester Diocesan Gazette

Part of University Archive Miscellaneous Donations (D-Numbers)

Original Thomas Plant & Company Limited box containing two St Paul's College sports caps, one dated 1914 - 1915

Part of University Archive Miscellaneous Donations (D-Numbers)

Belonging to Frank Nuttall, St Paul's student 1913 - 1915

Nuttall, Jonathan

"Over My Dead Body" book of reminiscences by Ron Miller

Part of University Archive Miscellaneous Donations (D-Numbers)

Includes accompanying note by the author

Miller, Ron

Pamphlet by Dr John Harpum entitled "Adult Education: Two Years as a New Provider"

Part of University Archive Miscellaneous Donations (D-Numbers)

Harpum, Dr John

Parish Magazine of St Luke’s, Torquay, and newspaper cuttings on the silver jubilee of Mr Ryder-Jones

Part of University Archive Miscellaneous Donations (D-Numbers)

Includes accompanying letter

Ryder-Jones, Reverend W H

Past President of the North West Chelt Club medal

Part of University Archive Miscellaneous Donations (D-Numbers)

Ebrey, Mr R

Pencil sketch of The Priory summerhouse as seen from the bay window cubicle of Mrs Mary Fisher [née Hodges], St Mary's College student 1928 - 1930

D520
Series
19 June 1929

Part of University Archive Miscellaneous Donations (D-Numbers)

Unknown

"Perspective" St Paul's College magazine

Part of University Archive Miscellaneous Donations (D-Numbers)

Number 4, September 1966
Number 11, June 1967
Number 14, February 1968
Number 17, July 1968

Naylor, Jeffrey

Petticoat by R G Cottrell, student at The Priory

Part of University Archive Miscellaneous Donations (D-Numbers)

Cotterell, R G

Petticoat specimen by Iris Greener, student at The Priory

Part of University Archive Miscellaneous Donations (D-Numbers)

Greener, Iris

Photocopies from the Cheltenham Chronicle and Gloucestershire Graphic of reunion gatherings and the St Paul’s World Fair 10 June and 22 December 1922

D211
Series
(c.1986) 1922

Part of University Archive Miscellaneous Donations (D-Numbers)

Hopkins, Kenneth D

Photocopies of an obituary for Octavius Edwin Wills (1875 - 1911), Cheltenham Training College student 1893 - 1895

D438
Series
(c.1989) 1911

Part of University Archive Miscellaneous Donations (D-Numbers)

Taken from "The Holly Leaf: Journal of Sheffield Pupil Teacher Centre"

Includes accompanying letter from Trevor Heard

Hearl, Trevor William

Photocopies of Cheltenham Training College student George Weston's scrapbook

D304
Series
(c.1985) c.1860-1862

Part of University Archive Miscellaneous Donations (D-Numbers)

Includes maths work, lists of students' addresses, poems and references from Reverend Bromby and others

Includes letter from Beverley Ward detailing her great grandfather's career, 6 May 1985

Ward, Beverley

Photocopies of essay "Purpose and Evolution: The Challenge: digesting Darwin and Mendel" by Edward Bradby, Principal of St Paul's College 1949 - 1972

Part of University Archive Miscellaneous Donations (D-Numbers)

Bradby, Barbara

Photocopies of letters from H Tinker to I Harwood and reminiscences of physical education at St Paul's College

Part of University Archive Miscellaneous Donations (D-Numbers)

Includes letter accompanying D339 from I Harwood to Mr Heaton, 3 March 1978

Tinker, H

Photocopies of photographs of St Paul's College and St Mary's College students

D579
Series
(2016) 1960 - 1964

Part of University Archive Miscellaneous Donations (D-Numbers)

Concert choir 1961
Bishop's choir 1961 - 1962
Male voice choir 1961 - 1962
St Paul's College proctoral body 1961 - 1962
Rambling Club 1961 - 1962
Double Science group 1961 - 1964 Geology trip to Aust Cliff c.1963
Playing tiddlywinks at RAG 1962
Pram and bed race at RAG 1962
Conga line at RAG 1962 Decline of the Roman Empire float at RAG 1962
St Paul's College fete Summer Term 1962
Chapel choir summer 1962
St Mary's College student representatives 1962 - 1963
Chapel choir 1963

Photographer unknown

Mogford, Linda

Photocopies of the census for Cheltenham Training College 1861-1891

Part of University Archive Miscellaneous Donations (D-Numbers)

Public Record Office

Photocopy of a letter from Carole F Hughes, St Mary's College student 1964 - 1967, to Mr Whiteley, staff member, with reminiscences