BLETCHLEY PARK COLLEGE/LADY SPENCER CHURCHILL COLLEGE

Archives list (NB Boxes 1/a-d not checked in detail) BP-LSC/1/a Prizeman book Visitors’ book Story of opening day [missing] College school book (1950) Nativity play (1954) Health on the Grand Union Canal Personal writing BP-LSC/1/b Programmes Newsletters and magazines College history Prospectus News release on amalgamation Certificate from Central Michigan University Notes and headings used for 25th Anniversary exhibition BP-LSC/1/c Photographs Evelyn Dunbar papers College badge ‘Four Quartets’ card Illustrated London News 3 May 1958 (Miss Cohen’s portrait) Architect and Building News 10 August 1966 Emergency Scheme for Training of Teachers (Signed menu and seating plan for 10th anniversary dinner, 15 January 1958) Senior Common Room and Staff Association Papers, election results, details of guest evenins, letters etc BP-LSC/1/d Oxford University B.Ed. Exam papers 1969-1978 BOX 2 Loose – stored in archive box 1 Various display texts and labels Bletchley Park Envelope “Bletchley Park revisited 20/8/99” 2postcard views and leaflet on Bletchley Park codebreaking Box ‘Bletchley photographs’ 8 b/w snapshots

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Album – snapshots of B.P. Postcards (c1953) Bletchley Park College – aerial plan (1) Alpha and Omega murals (2) The Library (2 – 1 mounted) A Library corner (1) Corner of Common Room (1) B/w photographs 10” x 6” relating to postcards above (3) overprinted A Library Corner/The Library/Corner of College Comon Room 5 b/w photographs 8” x 8” – views of BP Folder – ‘photocopies of items loaned by Bletchley Park Trust for Institute launch 17 Nov 2000’ (11 sheets) & BP ‘Station X’ leaflet B/w photoes 4.5” x 4.5 “ group drinking tea (mounted) library (unmounted) 6 colour negatives (in envelopes) 2 3/8” x 2” B/w photo 3” x 2” “The great project Dec 1952”

Lady Spencer Churchill College/Oxford Poytechnic/Oxford Brookes University (Wheatley site) Lady Spencer Churchill College of Education: A History 1948-1969 Wheatley campus when new 3 views (2 mounted) 9.5” x 8”. Unmounted marked ‘F Jewell Harrison… Bedford…48830/5’ Wheatley campus (with students) ‘Colin Tait … London 1566/T (7.5” x 7.5”) Exterior near steps Interior (2) common room area Photographs by Nicholas Meyje … Oxford (7.5” x 9.5”) Foundation stone laying (254/2) Signing (488/2) Wheatley buildings in final stages of construction. 2 photos (8” x 6”) ‘Concrete Ltd 20 May 1965’ Ph 2/1955 3322 & Ph 2/1956 3323 B/w snapshot Dining room Wheatley 4.5 “ x 3” Library 13 b/w photographs mounted on black card (9.5” x 7.25”) 5 Polaroid photographs Box 2” x 2” colour slides “Freshers’ Fair LSCC Library” 5 colour photocopies, mounted blue card

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BOX 2 Source BP-LSC/2/x – x: Library

BP-LSC/2/ Folder – various items (to be listed) BP-LSC/2/ Envelope – ‘Work on children’s books 1968-1975’ BP-LSC/2/ Envelope ‘Photos’ BP-LSC/2/ Oxford Polytechnic/Application to the Council for National Academic Awards for re-approval of a Course leading to the award of a/Postgraduate Certificate in Education/ December 1982 BP-LSC/2/ The Lady Spencer-Churchill College of Education/ Oxford Polytechnic/Application to the Council for National Academic Awards for recognition of a course for the award of a/B Ed and B Ed Honours Diploma of Higher Education/and for modification and additons to the BA and BSc Honours Modular Degree Course/amended June 1995

BP-LSC/2/ File: ‘No 73/Visitors to the Library’ [1950-1981] BP-LSC/2/ File: ‘2a Booksellers/Weatherheads’ BP-LSC/2/ File: ‘No 68 Stock checks: 1966-1976’ BP-LSC/2/ File: ‘No 67 Stock checks: 1948-1965’ BP-LSC/2/ File: ‘Post Grad. Exam papers/ Pre amalgamation (1976)’ BP-LSC/2/ Folder: ‘Miss J. Webb’ File prepared by Miss Hodgson … records all work on childrens’ literature undertaken by students from 1949-1965. December 1981 BP-LSC/2/ Folder: ‘College Development Plans/1971 – June 1974’

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BP-LSC/2/ File: ‘No. 36 Library Committee (LSCC)’ BP-LSC/2/ Book: ‘Elaine Henry: Oxford Polytechnic, Genesis to Maturity 1865 – 1980/with a decennial review BP-LSC/2/ Audio tape ‘Using the Library’ (1979) Master copy BP-LSC/2/ Filmstrips – Bletchley Park - 1st Emergency - 2nd Emergency - children, Bletchley Park - early record of building alterations

BP-LSC/3/ Books i Laver, James Victorian Vista (1954, London, Hulton) inscr. My best good wishes to Bletchley Park Training College Edith Evans Dec 3 1954 ii

Speaight, Robert William Pool and the Elizabethan Revival (1954, London, Heinemann) inscr. With all good wishes to Bletchley Park Training College from Edith Evans Dec 3 1954

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Dunbar, Evelyn, Gardener’s Choice (1937, London, Routledge) signed. Evelyn Dunbar note inserted from Dora Cohen that the book was a gift by Mr Folley, the artist’s father-in-law, who admired her work.

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[compiled Tony Evans] Betty, a Biography (Life of Betty Evans, née Corby, former student of Bletchley Park)

c. 2000, Norfolk v

Eleanor M. Makepeace our unofficial tourist guide inscr. To everyone at the Lady Spencer-Churchill College of Education, where many of these poems were written. Best wishes from Eleanor Makepeace

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BP-LSC/4/ 1 box file of printers’ blocks, mostly relating to Wheatley campus

BP-LSC/5/ Library records A Accession Registers i – 30 Nov 1965 – c. 1971 ii – c.1971 – March 1972 & books withdrawn 1970-71 B

Consumables & Permanent Stock Book, Oct 1965-1972

C architect’s plan: Buckinghamshire/ Wheatley Teachers Training College /Communial block/Library/ Sketch of layout. 4 Dec 1964 . noted ‘Library, C. Arch’s [County Architect’s?] suggested layout’.

BP-LSC/6/ Items relating to Lady Spencer-Churchill College site (a-k in single folder) a booklet: A short history of Wheatley stone, by W. O. Hassall, illustrated Peter Tysoe, 1955, printed by Oxford School of Art b leaflet: University of Oxford Delegacy for Educational Studies, Course for the certificate in the Education of Deaf and Partially Hearing Children. [3 copies] c/i booklet: Laying of the Foundation Stone of the new College of Technology Art & Commerce, Oxford by Viscount Nuffield, Monday 5 April 1954 c/ii Order of Proceedings d

sheet: The Arms and Crest of the Lady Spencer-Churchill College of Education

e bound booklet: Lady Spencer-Churchill College Development proposals, March 1974 [2 copies] f

City of Oxford Education Committee, Oxford Polytechnic, Foundation Ceremony, 24 April 1970. Order of Proceeding

g booklet: Lady Spencer-Churchill College of Education, A History 19481969

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prospectus: Lady Spencer-Churchill College of Education [nd, c 1966-

j leaflet: Postgraduate Course for the Certificate in Education [nd, c 1966-70, Lady Spencer-Churchill College] k

folder containing papers relating to Lady Spencer-Churchill College site Committee, 1975-1983 possibly originating from Director of Sites, Oxford Polytechnic. **Some items confidential – closed until 2013** l

‘Countryside Award 1970’ i – certificate awarded to Lady Spencer-Churchill College of Education for ‘Conservation of chalk grassland at Chinnor Hill, Oxfordshire’. [in mount, framed & glazed 15 ¼ x 11 ½ in overall] ii – (bronze?) plaque 13 ¼ in diameter.

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Video: ‘A College Collage’ [David Dillon: March 2000] Copy of a film made 1972-3, when Lady Spencer-Churchill College

was celebrating its 25th anniversary. Film made by Peter Keen & David Dillon. Background music from a concert given in the Dora Cohen Hall, 28 March 1973. n

Scroll, calligraphy text, mounted on fabric, boxed. Gift of Sook Chong Lee, President, Sungshin Womens’ Teachers’ College, Songbuk-ku, Seoul, Korea. With explanatory sheet: poem by Sang-un-Lee, winter 1972, translated by Ryon Kwan Kim, UNESCO, Paris, France 23 March 1972, presented to the College by Sook Chong Lee after her visit in 1971.

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the ‘Omega Compendium’: ‘The Bletchley Park College and the Lady Spencer-Churchill College Society of Old Students 1948-1986’. With donation letter inserted from Mr Richard Marshall 28 March 2001.

BP-LSC/7/ Box file containing accounts, bank statements, correspondence relating to reunions and other papers relating to the Bletchley Park/ Lady Spencer-Churchill College [old students’] Society. 1956-1981. Also The Bletchley Park College Benevolent Fund Trust Deed (12 January 1961).

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Photographs a

3 b/w photographs 7 x 10in. with labels in envelope ‘Photographs, Display Headings, (used for ‘Year of Disabled’ Exhibition June 1981) i – Stycar Language Test, Peabody Language Development Kits ii – Journals (British Journal of Educational Psychology, The Teacher of the Deaf, Special Education & others) iii – Abstracts and bibliography, Education index, British humanities

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mounted b/w photograph 14 ½ x 10 ½ in. of (bronze?) statue of boy and girl in (Dutch?) national dress. Girl is reading, boy carries a book.

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college photographs i - Lady Spencer-Churchill College of Education 1967 [b/w framed] ii - Lady Spencer-Churchill College of Education 1969 [b/w mounted] iii - Lady Spencer-Churchill College of Education 1974 [clr mounted] iv - Lady Spencer-Churchill College of Education 1969 [b/w] v - Lady Spencer-Churchill College of Education 1971 [b/w] vi - Lady Spencer-Churchill College of Education 1974 [b/w]

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b/w photographs of Wheatley campus i – ‘The Tower Block/ Wheatley campus’ [8 x 10 in] ii – ‘Main Entrance/ Wheatley campus’ [8 x 10 in] iii – ‘The Tower Block/ Wheatley campus’ [5 ½ x 8 in] iv – ‘Tower Block/ Wheatley campus’ [5 ½ x 8 in] v – ‘Tree fell on Wheatley staff cars/ 20 Oct 1986’ [5 ½ x 8 in]

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packs of colour prints (6 x 4 in.) related to Oxford Brookes University School of Education (Wheatley) i – ‘Bill Jackson + Eileen Smith Leaving party’ ii – ‘Old Lab New Lab 1998’ iii – ‘Leaving party 90 91’ iv – ‘Leaving party 90 91’ v – ‘Leaving party 90 91’ vi – ‘Leaving party 91 92’ vii – ‘Leaving party 91 92’ viii – ‘Jill Linda Trevor + Leaving party 90 91’ ix – unlabelled (some photographs identified) x – unlabelled (some photographs identified) ix – unlabelled (some photographs identified) [in plastic pocket]

BP-LSC/8/Photographs (cont’d) BP-LSC/8/f – BP-LSC/12 are from Miss Cohen’s personal papers donated by Mrs Anthea d’Ancey [Miss Cohen’s niece] 2 April 2004 f

photographs from Miss Cohen’s papers

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Bletchley Park Training College - buildings i – buildings c.1947 ii – buildings with water tank [‘17 The water tank’] iii – buildings iv – hut during demolition v – huts and garden [‘College Garden 1’] vi – huts and garden (similar to f/1/v) vii – garden with tree [5 ‘Neglected Gardens’] viii – view of college hall entrance [52] ix – view of college hall entrance (similar to viii) [50] x – view of college hall entrance [51] xi –building, fountain in foreground [‘College 1955, I.P.B’] xii –building, lions in foreground [58] xiii –building [56] xiv –building with hanging baskets [53] xv –building, path in foreground [49] xvi –building, lawns in foreground [54] xvii – students seated outside of building [25] xviii – students relaxing on lawn, in front of building [28] xix – view of building across lake [30] xx – view of lake [31] xxi – view of building across lake (previously front of Lady SpencerChurchill college greetings card) [3] xxii – mounted photograph of the building xxiii – pathway beneath arches [60]

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Bletchley Park Training College – building interiors i – stair landing, mirror in background, area known as ‘piccadilly’ [71] ii – seating and table in foreground, view into ‘piccadilly’ [46] iii – large room, piano in background [75] iv – large room, snooker table in foreground (same room as iii) [77] v – students having tea, murals in background [69] vi - students having tea, murals in background (similar to v) [68] vii – chairs in front of murals (same area as v and vi) viii – corridor with display cabinet on left [72] ix – library, ‘Omega’ mural in background [‘11 The Library DC’] x – library, Josephine Hodgson centre [‘9 The Library DC’] xi – library, students studying at table [12] xii – library with students [copyright by Daily Mirror, ‘018011/22’] xiii – library, table and chairs [‘7 A corner of the (now obsolete) library’,‘8’] xiv – college hall [42] xv – college hall, with book stand xvi – staff room? [73] xvii – room with large window, students reading [76] xviii – nature table [copyright J.H.Brookes, ‘18 school nature tables’] xix – kitchen [’61 College Kitchen DC’] xx – gym [6] xxi – mural and display case ( in wallet)

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xxii – Postcard [corner of college common room] xxiii – Postcard [a library corner] xxiv – Postcard [the library] f/3/

Bletchley Park Training College - Activities at the college i – students holding wine bottles [Copyright Bletchley District Gazette] ii – the high table [’64 High Table D.C’] iii – working in the kitchen [65] iv – waiting to serve food [66] v – serving tea to students [70] vi – pouring out tea vii – students working in classroom [24] viii – students doing gymnastics [5] ix – student doing pottery [3] x – 3 students doing pottery [BL2306] xi – students doing archery [Copyright North Bucks Times] xii – woman painting (Evelyn Dunbar?) [4] xiii – students playing tennis [7] xiv – dancing outside xv – students jumping over rope [8 copyright Daily Mirror] xvi – students jumping to catch [018011/6 copyright Daily Mirror] xvii – students dressed up, travelling on a float (advertising ‘A Coronation Concert 1953’) [104 copyright North Bucks. Times] xviii – students walking down street in fancy dress [BL.7178 copyright North Bucks. Times] xix – students singing at concert [28 ‘Dido and Aeneas (coronation year)’ copyright North Bucks. Times] xx – students singing at concert [28] xxi – nativity play [copywright North Bucks. Times] xxii – angels at nativity [copywright North Bucks. Times] xxiii – a stage play [copyright Leighton Buzzard Observer] xxix – a stage play, pillar in foreground [copywright North Bucks.Times] xxx – Girl with rabbit [17] xxxi – feeding chickens [20] xxxii – Gardening [21] xxxiii – Gardening, church in background [78] xxxiv – cleaning out the pond [18] xxxv – working on the ‘tank’ [copywright J.H. Brookes] xxxvi – group seated in front of mural xxxvii – college photograph [DC 1957/58] xxxix – clearing ‘tank’ area xl – close-up view of ‘tank’ building [25 ‘Model Inn’]

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Bletchley Park Training College - Staff i – staff at high table [12, 8106] ii – Dora Cohen carrying chair iii – Dora Cohen with cake [22, 97216] iv – staff member with files [5106] v – Dora Cohen [‘4’ ‘21.12.48’ proof property of Studio Lisa] vi – Dora Cohen behind desk [Copyright North Bucks Times]

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vii – staff with picnic [‘staff at the tower of London, DC’] viii – Mounted photograph of staff [Gazette studio Bletchley] ix – Mounted photograph of music teacher Mr Edwin Campbell Rose [2176] x - 2 photographs of staff doing maintenance at Bletchley [Rose Magna Print A85] f/5/

Bletchley Park Training College - Princess Alexandra’s visit 1957 i - Princess Alexandra revealing the plaque [Copyright North Bucks. Times] ii – Princess Alexandra welcomed from her car [Copyright North Bucks. Times] iii – Woman curtseying to the Princess [Copyright North Bucks. Times] iv – Mounted photograph of Josephine Hodgson meeting the Princess [Copyright North Bucks. Times]

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Bletchley Park Training College - Visitors to the college i – Unknown man shaking hands with Dora Cohen [Copyright North Bucks. Times] ii – group, Josephine Hodgson centre [‘J9554’ Copyright North Bucks. Times] iii – Dora Cohen having tea with guest [Copyright North Bucks. Times] iv – unknown group eating [2120] v – Dora Cohen having tea with 3 guests Colonel Watson on left [Copyright North Bucks. Times] vi – group gathered round cake, Colonel Watson on right [Copyright North Bucks. Times] vii – guest revealing ‘Alpha’ mural [Copyright North Bucks. Times] f/7/

Bletchley Park Training College – Gifts /significant items i – clock with feather ornament [proof] ii – Alpha and Omega processional cross (in wallet) iii – Dora Cohen and group with her portrait [Copyright North Bucks. Times] iv – Dora Cohen with her portrait [Copyright North Bucks. Times] v – The Queen’s beasts - wall mountings, college in background [39] vi – The Queen’s beasts - wall mountings [38] vii – The Queen’s beasts - wall mountings, large photograph [38] f/8/

Other photographs i – 2 photographs of geese, possibly from Elmers [19 & 22] ii – Ducks [23] iii – pigs [6 ‘generation’] iv – Snow scene [Copyright North Bucks. Times] v – 2 photographs of people dancing in costume [13] vi – Sports pavilion, location unknown

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Wheatley – The building process i – Photographs taken 23.6.1964, serial numbers 2861-2867. Copyright Concrete LTD.

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ii – Photographs taken 12.2.1965, serial numbers 3167-3173 Copyright Concrete LTD. iii – Photographs taken 20.5.1965, serial numbers 3322 -3324 Copyright Concrete LTD. iv – Colour photograph of building [‘Nearly completed students’ hostel, Wheatley. Whit Monday 1964’.] v – Colour photograph [‘Miss Burle, Miss Cohen and architect’.] vi – Colour photograph of Dora Cohen and others visiting the site [‘Made by Kodak Ltd. May 1965’] vii – Two photographs of an artist’s impression of Wheatley [43844A & 43844C] f/10/

Wheatley – The finished building i – Photographs taken 1.3.1966, serial numbers 3545-3548 Copyright Concrete LTD. ii – Photograph taken June 1966, serial no. 3730 Copyright Concrete LTD. iii – Same photograph as ii. Picture caption on back describing college opening. iv – Ariel photograph of the college.

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Wheatley - Building interior i – View of stairs (Cut out of a magazine) ii – Student sitting at desk (Cut out of a magazine) iii – the organ

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Wheatley - Ceremonies i – Crowd standing on steps, Dora Cohen at the front (Ceremony of the

Stone) ii - Handbell ringers (Ceremony of the Stone) iii – choir (Ceremony of the Stone) iv – speaker addressing the crowd (Ceremony of the stone) v – crowd in front of building (Ceremony of the stone) vi - plaque of the college opening and newspaper article about the engraver Philip Murdin. vii – coins, possibly for burying in a capsule. f/13/

Wheatley – Staff and students i – D. Cohen and J. Hodgson outside the Dora Cohen hall ii – D. Cohen with two students[Made by Kodak Ltd. Dec. 1966] iii – reunion photograph [‘Lady Spencer Churchill College Reunion June 1987']

BP-LSC/9/ Bletchley Park College a

Two black ring binders containing:

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Principal’s speeches at Going Down Day 1949-1955.

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Principal’s speeches at Going Down Day 1956-1967.

b Large sheet paper: ‘Bletchley Park Training College 1948-1965’ student lists. c Papers, clipped together: David Hardman’s speech at Bletchley Park Training College opening, 29 March 1948. d Envelope: History of Bletchley Park College and papers relating to the 1969 publication including proofs.

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File: Poems and correspondence of Margaret Potter, mostly 1980s.

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Silver ‘alpha/omega’ monogram, possibly from Bletchley Park cross.

™ Envelope: Photographs of ‘Everyman’ production. ™ Clear plastic wallet: Assorted photographs Bletchley Park College

BP-LSC/10/ Lady Spencer-Churchill College a

Folder: Papers and correspondence with the College 1966 – 1973.

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Photograph album: The opening of LS-CC, with loose photographs inserted, including those of BPC.

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Wooden slide box: Mostly slides of building and early days of LS-CC.

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Carton containing:

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Boxes of slides, some of which relate to LS-CC.

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BBC recorded tape, 10th anniversary banquet at BPC 15 Jan 1959.

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BP-LSC/11/ Old Students Association a

Envelope: Papers labelled ‘Lady S C Society’.

b Folder: Thanksgiving service for the life of Lady Spencer-Churchill (1978); BPC Society papers.

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Folder: Papers and correspondence relating to Old Students’ Society c1966-1970.

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Suitcase containing:

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1 file miscellaneous correspondence, apparently with distinguished former guests etc, 1966-

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Old Students’ Association newsletters.

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Assorted papers and photographs relating mostly to BPC.

BP-LSC/12/ Dora Cohen – Personal

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Envelope containing:

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DC as College Guest, Churchill College, Cambridge, 8 March 1972;

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21st birthday dinner at LS-CC, 14 July 1973.

b Photograph album: Snapshots of Alnwick Castle and schoolchildren, also DC and other women (including Josephine Hodgson) in overalls (1940s wartime).

™ 4 photographs [taken from large envelope with numerous folders of films c.1920s-30s] - group of young women, (DC back row right); ‘Prefects/L.H.S.’ on reverse - dramatic costumed tableau; ‘Dora as Theseus/Midsummer Night’s Dream’ on reverse - graduation day snapshot of 2 women, DC on right - DC on rock in mountain landscape, probably on holiday c. 1930s.

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Newcastle upon Tyne Church High Alumnae newsletter, Summer 2004 with details of visit to Alnwick Castle [Dora Cohen was a staff member evacuated to Alnwick, see item BPLSC/12/b. Correspondence in BP-LSC/13/f] Origin: Sent by School, 2004

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i - staff at Bletchley Park Training College, also sheet with some names. ii – colour print of John Ward portrait of Dora Cohen (signed mount) Origin: Miss Kathleen Barrington (BPTC 1948-49)

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video ‘College Film 1968/P. Gannon & F.L. Carter’ [Sony V-31 format] Origin – from Frank Carter (member of staff 1964- )

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2 linen table napkins Origin - found in Bletchley Park sideboard when transferred from Wheatley Boardroom to Headington Hill Hall, July 2004]

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Photocopies of items loaned by Bletchley Park Trust for Westminster Institute launch exhibition, November 2000.

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Items associated with exhibition ‘In my end is my beginning’, September 2004. i – ring binder containing notes, correspondence & resources ii – ring binder with photocopies of Miss Cohen’s ‘Going Down Day’ speeches, with some notes and markings. iii – plastic folder with Eric Carotenuto’s proofs of exhibition panels, with CD. Origin – Peter Forsaith’s file

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CDs i – Essex Record Office: Loughton Girls County High School – Record card and admission entry for Dora Cohen ii - Dora Cohen WAV for PC use iii - Dora Cohen WAV for CD player [Origin - items ii & iii have recording of Dora Cohen reading from the Psalms, from a cassette loaned by K Trueman, made by Westminster media studio] iv – CD of photographs taken by Claire Douglas of exhibition opening and graduation, 11 September 2004.

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Framed photograph of relief of Dora Cohen in the Dora Cohen hall, Wheatley [sculptor A W Banks]. Plain gold effect frame, glazed 268x209 mm overall. Acc. 2005/2

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Label on reverse ‘Given by Janet Kennedy (née Ebbs) who was secretary to Miss Cohen 1948 – 1967’ Donated 7 June 2005. Mrs Kennedy was given the photograph by Miss Hodgson.

NOTES: Governors’ Minutes for Bletchley Park College/Lady Spencer-Churchill College 1947-1973 are deposited at: Centre for Buckinghamshire Studies County Hall, Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire HP20 1UU (Ref: AR 37/88/116-123)

Miss Cohen’s papers relating to official College correspondence and events were deposited with the Oxfordshire County Records Office following her death in 1989. They are currently uncatalogued.

PSF/Feb2006

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