Special Collections and Archives

Britain's Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother celebrates her birthday on 4 August. In this 1945 photograph from files the Queen Mother (2nd left), Queen Elizabeth II (left), Princess Margaret (right), King George VI and Winston Churchill stand on the Balcony at Buckingham Palace in London to acknowledge the crowds outside the palace on 8 May, VE Day. Approximately twenty thousand people waited for the party to step out early on that morning

Broadcast Date: 1985

Agency: Associated Press

Queen Mother, King George VI, Princess Elizabeth, Princess Margaret and Winston Churchill

ITN/5/15/128
Item
8 May 1945

Part of Independent Television News (ITN) Image Archive

Princess Elizabeth, Queen Elizabeth, Mr Winston Churchill, King George VI, Princess Margaret on the balcony of Buckingham Palace, acknowledging the crowds on VE Day. Obit

Broadcast Day: 9 June 1977

Agency: Fox Photos Limited

St Mary's College green blazer

D452/2
Item
c.1943 - 1945

Part of University Archive Miscellaneous Donations (D-Numbers)

College dark and pale blue striped blazer

D452/3
Item
c.1943 - 1945

Part of University Archive Miscellaneous Donations (D-Numbers)

Photograph of St Paul’s rugby team with names

D240/3/5
Item
c.1944-1945

Part of University Archive Miscellaneous Donations (D-Numbers)

Photographer unknown

Samples of weaving and embroidery

Part of University Archive Miscellaneous Donations (D-Numbers)

Unknown

Photograph of a group of St Mary's College and St Paul's College students outside Geraldine's in Cheltenham on V E Day

Part of University Archive Miscellaneous Donations (D-Numbers)

Photographer unknown

Diary belonging to Ethel Maud Jones documenting years at College

D604/3
Item
September 1938 - 12 April 1945

Part of University Archive Miscellaneous Donations (D-Numbers)

Includes "an afterthough" 12 April 1945. Details everyday life at College and during trips home including evacuation to Llandrindod Wells in 1939 and the impact of the Second World War. Corresponds to photographs in D604/1

Student needlework book including examples of needlework by E M Reeves

Part of University Archive Miscellaneous Donations (D-Numbers)

Programme for service of dedication of the memorial tablet to Arthur Haig Mann [student 1900-1902, lecturer 1913-1925, Vice-Principal 1925-1945]

Part of University Archive Miscellaneous Donations (D-Numbers)

Military personnel on VE Day

ITN/5/15/129
Item
8 May 1945

Part of Independent Television News (ITN) Image Archive

Broadcast Date: 8 March 1985

Agency: Hulton Picture Library

Publishers' Papers

DP/MG/5
Subseries
1914-1915, 1945

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Newspaper advert for "The Outpost" by Wilfrid Wilson Gibson

DP/MG/5/3
Item
25 August 1945

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

An advert by Oxford University Press for the release of the second impression of "The Outpost", including quotations of reviews by "The Friend", and "John o'London's Weekly"

Hanslip Fletcher

DP/RW/8/3
File
1927-1945

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Exhibition programme for "Changing London & Other Drawings" at The London Museum November - December 1927 and two editions of "The Journal of The Royal Society of Arts" with articles "The Art of Hanslip Fletcher" and "London from the Pavement"

School practice notebooks of H Saxton

D406/1
Subseries
1943 - 1944

Part of University Archive Miscellaneous Donations (D-Numbers)

Photograph of student group including Bob Dixon, "Butch" Butler and Rhodda Williams

D412/1
Item
c.1942 - 1944

Part of University Archive Miscellaneous Donations (D-Numbers)

Photographer unknown

Programme for the first production of "Kestrel Edge" by Wilfrid Gibson performed by The Second Company of The Adelphi Players

DP/MG/6/3
Item
1944

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Produced by Lewis Casson

Letter from Home Guard commanding officer to R A Riley

D327/4
Item
18 December 1944

Part of University Archive Miscellaneous Donations (D-Numbers)

First Gloucestershire Battalion Home Guard list of officers

Part of University Archive Miscellaneous Donations (D-Numbers)

"The Silver Torch Series No 10: Twelve Plays for Juniors" by Edith E Millard

Part of University Archive Miscellaneous Donations (D-Numbers)

Published by Collins Clear-Type Press, Glasgow

Deposit relating to H Saxton

Part of University Archive Miscellaneous Donations (D-Numbers)

Saxton, H

Deposit of photographs relating to St Paul's College and St Mary's College

D412
Series
c.1915 - 1944

Part of University Archive Miscellaneous Donations (D-Numbers)

Unknown

Queen Elizabeth II with her parents

ITN/5/14/22
Item
April 1944

Part of Independent Television News (ITN) Image Archive

The Queen (then Princess Elizabeth) taken just before her 18th birthday with her parents, King George VI and Queen Elizabeth (now the Queen Mother). The Queen's 60th birthday 5 March 1986. One of a special series of 12 pictures to mark The Queen's 60th Birthday on 21 April 1986

ITN Reference: ROYAL/ELIZ/

Agency: Press Association

"An Unstamped Letter in our Rural Letter Box" Christmas greeting

DP/ET/5/3/1
Item
1944

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Annual Christmas greeting from Robert Frost. 2,050 copies printed by The Spiral Press, New York. This was one of the 300 copies printed with Frost's name as the sender. This poem was collected in "Steeple Bush" published 1947

Final teaching practice notebook at Hatherley Road Senior Boys' School

D406/1/7
Item
6 - 24 March 1944

Part of University Archive Miscellaneous Donations (D-Numbers)

With pencil annotations and loose sheets

Photograph of tennis social between St Paul's College and St Mary's College

Part of University Archive Miscellaneous Donations (D-Numbers)

Photographer unknown

Annotated and signed

School practice notebook for Dunalley Street Class II by Margaret Dunnachie, St Mary's student 1942 - 1944

D419
Series
c.1942 - 1944

Part of University Archive Miscellaneous Donations (D-Numbers)

Unknown

Photographs of Anthony Baker and friend at Sevenhampton and Brockhampton, Gloucestershire

Part of University Archive Miscellaneous Donations (D-Numbers)

Photographer unknown

St Paul’s College and Western Joint Board examination papers

D196/2
Item
March 1943 – June 1944

Part of University Archive Miscellaneous Donations (D-Numbers)

English Language Junior Examination March 1943
English Language Senior Examination December 1943
Physical Education (Men) June 1944
Art: Aims, Principles and Method of Teaching Art in Elementary Schools June 1944
Hygiene June 1944
English Literature June 1944
History June 1944
Handwork for Men: Drawing and theory June 1944
English Literature Advanced Course June 1944
Art Advanced Course June 1944

Postcard from E H W Meyerstein to Rowland Watson with poem "To my Editor, if I have one"

DP/RW/4/2/4
Item
19 June 1944

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

With pencil annotation

Agreement between Joan Pritchard and Somerset Education Committee employing her as an uncertified assistant teacher at Croscombe Church of England Junior School

Part of University Archive Miscellaneous Donations (D-Numbers)

Pritchard, Joan M

H Saxton hygiene notebook

D406/2/1
Item
1942 - c.1943

Part of University Archive Miscellaneous Donations (D-Numbers)

With pencil annotations

Princess Alexandra, her mother the Duchess of Kent, and brothers Prince Edward and Prince Michael

ITN/5/1/1
Item
July 1943

Part of Independent Television News (ITN) Image Archive

A picture of Princess Alexandra, who in April is to marry Mr Angus Ogilvy, with her mother the Duchess of Kent, and brothers Prince Edward (now Duke of Kent) and Prince Michael (in arms) in the grounds of Coppins, Ivor, Buckinghamshire. This picture was taken for Prince Michael's first birthday in July 1943

ITN Reference: ROYAL/ALEX/8

Agency: Central Press

"Birmingham Repertory Theatre: The Playhouse and the Man" by Thomas C Kemp