| Description | The box contains photographs of Richmal Crompton and others [mostly members of Richmal Crompton's family].
The box contains the following photographs of Richmal Crompton (these photographs of Richmal Crompton are all printouts of digitised copies of the original photographs, with the original photographs digitised in the c2000s and the printouts of these digital copies made in the c2000s [the original photographs of Richmal Crompton are not present in the file]):
- A black and white photographic portrait [of Richmal Crompton]; photograph taken in the c1940s.
- A black and white photograph of Richmal Crompton gardening at Beechworth [her house in Chislehurst, Kent]; photograph taken in the c1950s. (This photograph includes a handwritten caption; caption added in the c2000s.)
- A black and white photograph of Richmal Crompton carrying out maintenance on her car; photograph taken in the c1950s. (This photograph includes a handwritten caption; caption added in the c2000s.)
- A black and white photographic portrait [of Richmal Crompton], taken outside a house; photograph taken in c1967.
- A black and white photograph of Richmal Crompton standing next to Edward Ashbee [son of Richmal Crompton's niece, Richmal Ashbee], taken outside a house; photograph taken in 1967. (This photograph includes a handwritten caption; caption added in the c2000s.)
(Also included is a letter [that was sent to Archives and Special Collections at the University of Roehampton, with the above printouts, from the depositors]; letter written in the c2000s.)
The box contains the following photographs of others:
- A black and white photograph of a man in uniform, seated outside, [perhaps Richmal Crompton's brother, Jack Lamburn? The plants in the photograph suggest that it wasn't taken in the UK.] Photograph taken in the c1910s.
- A black and white photograph [of Clara Lamburn, Richmal Crompton's mother]; photograph taken in the c1920s. (This photograph has been mounted in a wooden frame.)
- A black and white photograph of a man and a woman seated in a garden, the man with a young child on his lap, [perhaps Richmal Crompton's sister, Gwen Disher, Gwen Disher's husband, Thomas Disher, and their daughter, Richmal Disher (later known as Richmal Ashbee)?] photograph taken in the c1930s.
- A black and white photograph of a man and a woman [perhaps Richmal Crompton's sister, Gwen Disher, and Gwen Disher's husband, Thomas Disher?] standing in front of a house, with a small dog in the foreground; photograph taken in the c1930s.
- A colour photograph [of Richmal Ashbee, niece of Richmal Crompton, with (perhaps Margaret Disher? niece of Richmal Crompton and sister of Richmal Ashbee)] both seated in a restaurant, [photograph likely taken at a "William Day" for fans of Richmal Crompton's William stories]; photograph taken in the c1990s.
- A colour photograph [of Richmal Ashbee, niece of Richmal Crompton, with (Paul Ashbee? husband of Richmal Ashbee) and several others, all standing or seated in a bar and performing a William radio play at a "William Day" for fans of Richmal Crompton's William stories]; photograph taken in the c1990s.
- A printout of a digitised colour photograph of two black and white cats (called Pookie and Piglet) [both cats belonged to Betty Hopton and Johnny Hopton, fans of Richmal Crompton's William stories]. The photograph was taken in the c1990s, it was then digitised in the c1990s and a printout of this digital copy was made in the c1990s. The photograph includes a digitally-added caption and a handwritten caption (the handwritten caption is addressed to Richmal and Paul [Richmal Ashbee, niece of Richmal Crompton, and Richmal Ashbee's husband, Paul Ashbee]); the captions were added [by Betty Hopton and Johnny Hopton] in the c1990s. |
| Related Material | Further documents relating to fans of Richmal Crompton's works can be found in RC/1/7 and RC/5.
Further photographs of Richmal Crompton can be found in RC 245, RC 246, RC 247, RC 248, RC 249, RC 250, RC 251, RC test 17, RC 275, RC 293, RC 294, RC 295, RC |