| Description | College papers and memorabilia including:
Photo album: postcards and greeting cards of Halifax, ‘Crossley and Porter School’, Homerton, Cambridge, Bede College, Durham, plus snapshots showing – brush making – Halifax; May Day 1941 (including ‘The Three Greens, Peggy, Audrey and Rachel’); The Reps June 1942; Mary Dawson 1955; nativity tableau Xmas 1941; sewing in the grounds of Durham; St Ursula’s Day 1941; headshots of Mary Curtis, Beryl Silver, Margaret Copeman, Muriel Chell, Marjorie Burdekin, Joyce Bloomfield, Sylvia Rupert Hodder; Eunice’s [Crowther] wedding; Jeanne Chandler; reunions [?] in Bournemouth 1982, Weston s Mare 1987, York 1987.
Plus loose enclosures - College Christmas cards and postcards, some written and addressed to Mary, showing Putney, Homerton, Durham, May Day; World War II reminiscences ‘A tutor arrives in Halifax 1940’; Durham photo set, Sunday Times article 2 July 2006 ‘Great Scott – it works’ about Sir Giles Gilbert Scott Building; Photos of embroidered panel; May Day 2004 and 2005 photos.
Book ‘Children of the Wilderness’ endorsed ‘From the Representatives 1941 with love to Mary’ and signed by them.
1942 year group photo with signatures on reverse.
Photo of reunion May Day 2002 with names
List of College Representatives 1941-43; list of ‘1960-63 craft students; amended list of 1942 cohort, 2004.
Correspondence with archivist re Theo Moorman altar frontal.
May Day service sheet 1966
Historical reference material: 1942 College Annual; 1947 College; short history ‘Whitelands College’ by Flora Hill, in The Sign, 1950; Teacher and Pupil - the Winifred Mercier Memorial Lecture 1956, by Sir Charles Morris; Education for spiritual living in a secular age - the Winifred Mercier Memorial Lecture 1960 by Kathleen Bliss; Guild of St Ursula list of members 1960; ‘Threads of History’ from Telegraph Magazine 1993; Liberty press release ‘Ruskin and the May Queens of Whitelands College’ 1992; Whitelands College Guild extract ‘Whither the Whitelander, no 10’ re Nancy Noel; set of Malcom Cole monographs.
Plus later material: tribute and service sheet from funeral.
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