Repository | University of Roehampton: Whitelands College |
Level | Item |
Ref No | WC/PP/LE ROUX |
Title | Grace le Petevin dit le Roux (1909-11) |
Date | 1893 - 1912 |
Extent | 2 albums |
Description | Postcard album with photographs of Chelsea, mainly formal photos from May Days and of student groups but also including a few family photos at the end (the album inscribed ‘Xmas 1902 – to my darling little pudding with Amy’s best love’); plus book of newspaper cuttings mostly about the May Day Festival at St Mark's Girls' School but also including cuttings about Whitelands, and many earlier items. |
Administrative History | Grace Le Roux, from Jersey, was one of three sisters trained at Whitelands. She took the May Day ceremony back to her school in Jersey and it was held there annually until the 1920s. She died in 1978. |