Special Collections and Archives

The personal archive of poet U A Fanthorpe CBE (1929-2009), a Gloucestershire-based poet. The collection encompasses extensive correspondence and draft poetry and is an example of the creative processes writers undertake from idea to composition to finished piece. The collection is comprised of paper-based documents and new accessions are occasionally received from U A’s partner Rosie Bailey

Fanthorpe, U A

Reports of inspection visits to Lower Halstow Board School, Sittingbourne

Part of University Archive Miscellaneous Donations (D-Numbers)

Deposit relating to John Ball Price

D89
Series
1878-1896, 1968

Part of University Archive Miscellaneous Donations (D-Numbers)

Price, John Ball

Letters of reference of John Ball Price written by John Gill, the Principal of Cheltenham Training College and others

Part of University Archive Miscellaneous Donations (D-Numbers)

Photograph album containing photographs of Reverend Chamney with family, other Cheltenham Training College staff and students

Part of University Archive Miscellaneous Donations (D-Numbers)

Photographer unknown

Unknown

Group photograph showing John Ball Price

Part of University Archive Miscellaneous Donations (D-Numbers)

Annotated with his life story

Photographer unknown

Price, John Ball

Album compiled by John Wood, with contributions by fellow students, mostly religious poems and quotations

D241
Series
1876-1878, 1987

Part of University Archive Miscellaneous Donations (D-Numbers)

Includes a Cheltenham Training College timetable for 1878, and accompanying letter from Bernadette Flaherty [Senior Clerical Assistant Archives MSC Project] to Miss E Hub thanking her for the donation, 24 March 1987

Wood, John

Deposit of textbooks relating to Edith Hartop [née Shaw], St Mary's student 1910-1912

Part of University Archive Miscellaneous Donations (D-Numbers)

Richardson, H E

History

D353/8
Subseries
1875 - 1937

Part of University Archive Miscellaneous Donations (D-Numbers)

Wooden block with student timetable mounted on it labelled "H E Wale 1st Year 187[5 or 8]"

D354
Series
c.1875 - 1878

Part of University Archive Miscellaneous Donations (D-Numbers)

Unknown

Deposit relating to Maria Brown

Part of University Archive Miscellaneous Donations (D-Numbers)

Brown, Maria

Cheltenham Training College St Mary's Mental Arithmetic test paper with answers by Maria Brown

Part of University Archive Miscellaneous Donations (D-Numbers)

"A Short History of the English People" by J R Green

Part of University Archive Miscellaneous Donations (D-Numbers)

Published by Macmillan & Company

Inscribed "F O Hartop, Saltley College, Birmingham"

Needlework specimens by St Mary’s students

Part of University Archive Miscellaneous Donations (D-Numbers)

Unknown

Autograph book belonging to Sarah Price, St Mary's student 1873 - 1875

Part of University Archive Miscellaneous Donations (D-Numbers)

Includes autographs, poems, verse, illustrations and music written by fellow students

Deposit relating to St Mary's students

Part of University Archive Miscellaneous Donations (D-Numbers)

Johnstone, Janet

Reports of St Saviour’s School by the Education Department inspectors for annual grant award including details of attendances, examinations and pupil teachers, 1872, 1875, 1877, 1887 with letter of correction to statement made in report, 1893

Part of University Archive Miscellaneous Donations (D-Numbers)

Greek bible translated into modern Greek

Part of University Archive Miscellaneous Donations (D-Numbers)

Skinner, Mike

Rosina Taylor Potter teachers certificate

D638/1
Item
December 1871

Part of University Archive Miscellaneous Donations (D-Numbers)

Appointed as a teacher at St Saviours National School in Paddington. Includes inspection reports for 1874, 1875, 1876, 1877, 1878, 1879, 1880, 1881, 1882 and 1883

Education Department teacher’s certificate belonging to Sarah Chatwin [née Butler] of the second class, “raised” to first class after ten inspection visits

D9/3
Item
December 1871 – March 1888

Part of University Archive Miscellaneous Donations (D-Numbers)

Deposit relating to Miss Amy Rosina Burgess, St Mary's College lecturer in Geography and Mathematics c.1928

Part of University Archive Miscellaneous Donations (D-Numbers)

Phillips, Allan

Deposit relating to Sarah Butler (later Chatwin), Cheltenham Training College student 1870-1871, and Henry T Chatwin, Cheltenham Training College student 1871-1873

D9
Series
1870-1898, 1971

Part of University Archive Miscellaneous Donations (D-Numbers)

Cave, Tony

Edward VII, King (1841 - 1910)

ITN/5/12
File
c.1870 - 1910

Part of Independent Television News (ITN) Image Archive

Edward VII, Princess Alexandra and Prince Albert Victor

ITN/5/12/1
Item
c.1870

Part of Independent Television News (ITN) Image Archive

Prince Edward VII and Princess Alexandra with Prince Albert Victor (first son) late Duke of Clarence. Dead. Hills & Saunders. Registered

Broadcast Date: 5 November 1981

ITN Reference: ROYAL/EDWA/4

Agency: Mansell Collection

Victorian photograph album containing photographs of various people and two landscape scenes, with many taken in Cheltenham

Part of University Archive Miscellaneous Donations (D-Numbers)

Photographer unknown

Decorative embossed leather cover with clasp. Stamped "Gloucestershire College of Art and Design Library". Loose items

University of Gloucestershire

Colour print with illustration of Cheltenham Normal Training College exterior

Part of University Archive Miscellaneous Donations (D-Numbers)

Includes details of the foundation of the college

Forester-Bennett, Robert

Photocopy and transcript of costing of building of St Mary’s Hall [Shaftesbury Hall]

D217/5
Item
(c.1987) c.1869

Part of University Archive Miscellaneous Donations (D-Numbers)

Advertisement for sale by auction of St Margaret's freehold estate

D352
Series
11 September 1865

Part of University Archive Miscellaneous Donations (D-Numbers)

Unknown

Letters from Various Sources

DP/VD/17/3
File
(2006) 1864 - 1919

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Photocopies of letters and cards from friends of Haines. They include thank you letters from children, expressions of sympathy on the death of his father and comments on contemporary literature. Authors include Marion M Scott, C W B Marsh, Madge Balfour, Lilian Gale, Ethel Priday, Dot Whitley and C C Haines

Also includes a letter to Alice from "Papa" dated 1864

St Saviour’s Church Association minutes of meeting