Special Collections and Archives

Letters regarding the Edward Thomas Memorial on the Shoulder of Mutton, Steep

DP/RW/3/1
File
5 March 1936 - 28 January 1941

Includes letter from Ezra Pound against the memorial
Other letters from:
Wilfred E Baderley
Algernon Blackwood
P D Coleridge
T C Duncan Williams
Lord Horder
Galloway Kyle
Irene McArthur

Handmade greetings card to Miss Heath from “”Ex-642” Cy”

D214
Series
9 August 1942

Part of University Archive Miscellaneous Donations (D-Numbers)

Unknown

Gloucestershire Graphic and Cheltenham Chronicle wedding photograph of Lance-Bombardier Edward L Day, St Paul’s College student 1939-1941

Part of University Archive Miscellaneous Donations (D-Numbers)

Letter from J H Simpson to R A Riley [St Paul's College] thanking him for hospitality to his "men" and praises cooperation between "the two Colleges"

D75/11
Item
24 July 1942

Part of University Archive Miscellaneous Donations (D-Numbers)

Photograph of St Paul’s College staff and second year students

Part of University Archive Miscellaneous Donations (D-Numbers)

Photographer 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

St Paul’s College prospectus and accompanying information from the Principal on admission requirements and the Air Training Corps

Part of University Archive Miscellaneous Donations (D-Numbers)

St Paul's College Junior Concert programme for "Thread O'Scarlet" and "Birds of a Feather"

Part of University Archive Miscellaneous Donations (D-Numbers)

Signed

Wardner, G J

St Mary's College prospectus

Part of University Archive Miscellaneous Donations (D-Numbers)

With pencil and ink annotations

Photograph of Peter Tooley in St Paul's College chemistry laboratory

Part of University Archive Miscellaneous Donations (D-Numbers)

Photographer unknown

Tooley, Peter

"Not Yet Five: Children Over Two in War-Time Nurseries" by the Board of Education and Ministry of Health

Part of University Archive Miscellaneous Donations (D-Numbers)

Princess Elizabeth and Princess Margaret cycling

ITN/5/28/2
Item
April 1942

Part of Independent Television News (ITN) Image Archive

The Cycling Princesses. Princess Elizabeth, now her Majesty the Queen (right), and Princess Margaret cycling in the grounds of Royal Lodge, Windsor

Agency: Camera Press

Princess Margaret as a Girl Guide

ITN/5/28/3
Item
June 1942

Part of Independent Television News (ITN) Image Archive

Her Royal Highness Princess Margaret wearing the uniform of a girl guide, near the Frogmore Camp in Windsor Great Park, in June 1942, she was then aged eleven. Both she and her elder sister Princess Elizabeth (now her Majesty the Queen) were keen Girl Guides

Agency: Camera Press

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

DP/TM/1/23
Item
1943

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Published by Cornish Brothers Limited, Birmingham

"Wild Life of Britain" by F Fraser Darling

Part of University Archive Miscellaneous Donations (D-Numbers)

Published by Collins, London

Observation notes at All Saints Senior Mixed School

D406/1/2
Item
February 1943

Part of University Archive Miscellaneous Donations (D-Numbers)

With pencil annotations

Teaching practice notebook Christ Church Junior Mixed School

D406/1/5
Item
21 June - 9 July 1943

Part of University Archive Miscellaneous Donations (D-Numbers)

With pencil annotations

National Union of Teachers prospectus

Part of University Archive Miscellaneous Donations (D-Numbers)

Princess Elizabeth as a Girl Guide Patrol Leader

ITN/5/14/21
Item
1943

Part of Independent Television News (ITN) Image Archive

Princess Elizabeth Patrol Leader in the Buckingham Palace Company sends a message by pigeon carrier to Lady Baden Powell at Guide Headquarters. It was one of many messages sent by girl guides all over the country on the occasion of "Thinking Day" which marks the birthday of the late Lord Baden Powell, founder of the Boys Scouts, and his wife at [?]. Princess Margaret holds pigeon container, while Princess Elizabeth writes a message

ITN Reference: ROYAL/LIZ/48

Agency: Thompson Newspapers

Princess Alexandra with her brothers Prince Edward and Prince Michael

ITN/5/25/2
Item
January 1943

Part of Independent Television News (ITN) Image Archive

The Life of Princess Alexandra. A picture of Princess Alexandra, who in April is to marry Mr Angus Ogilvy, with her brothers Prince Edward (now Duke of Kent), and Prince Michael (in pram), in the grounds of Coppins, Ivor, Buckinghamshire, in July 1943. The Princess was born on Christmas Day 1936. Obit

Agency: Central Press

Hanslip Fletcher

DP/RW/5/7
File
15 February 1932 - 19 January 1943

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Hanslip Fletcher [b.1874 d.1955] was an artist and the letters discuss his drawings. Includes pencil annotations

Teaching practice notebook All Saints Senior Mixed School

D406/1/1
Item
21 January - 9 February 1943

Part of University Archive Miscellaneous Donations (D-Numbers)

With pencil annotations and loose sheets

H Saxton Education notes

Part of University Archive Miscellaneous Donations (D-Numbers)

With pencil annotations and loose items

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

Part of University Archive Miscellaneous Donations (D-Numbers)

Unknown

School practice notebook at Grimethorpe Boys' Council School near Barnsley

D406/1/3
Item
5 - 9 April 1943

Part of University Archive Miscellaneous Donations (D-Numbers)

With pencil annotations and loose sheet

Teaching practice notebook for Central School

D406/1/4
Item
31 May - 12 June 1943

Part of University Archive Miscellaneous Donations (D-Numbers)

With pencil annotations and loose sheet

Teaching practice notebook at Grimethorpe Senior Boys' School near Barnsley

D406/1/6
Item
31 August - 3 September 1943

Part of University Archive Miscellaneous Donations (D-Numbers)

With pencil annotations

Student course notebooks of H Saxton

D406/2
Subseries
1942 - c.1943

Part of University Archive Miscellaneous Donations (D-Numbers)

H Saxton Education Questions notebook

D406/2/2
Item
1942 - c.1943

Part of University Archive Miscellaneous Donations (D-Numbers)

With pencil annotations

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"