GB0129 U135

Salford City Archive Service

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U135 Records of Male Voice Choir, Irlam, , 1945-80, n,d. Deposited! Mrs. C.N. Jenkins, Hon. Secretary, 1 Royden Avenue, Irlam, Manchester, M50 6AR, per Manchester Studies Unit, Manchester Polytechnic, December, 1980 (indefinite loan). Catalogued! A.N. Cross, December, 1980, Location! Archives Centre, 658/662 Liverpool Road, Irlam, Manchester, MJO 5AD.

This Choir was founded in 1945 as the Irlam and Male Voice Choir. This name was soon altered to that of Irlcadian Male Voice Choir. Subsequently it was known as the Irlam Male Voice Choir, For further information on the Choir see list produced by the Manchester Studies Unit (reference! A/TR294).

ADMINISTRATION Byelaws and rules U135/AB1 Photocopy, n.d., of rule book with list of officials 1946, n,d. for 1946-47 session, ?1946 (1 doc.)

Minutes /AM1 Signed minutes, annual general meetings or committee 1945, meetings, 1947-52 (1 vol. containing loose notes of 1947-52, n.d, inaugural meeting, 1945, and other papers loose or in a bundle, 1947-49, n.d., incl, lis t of enrolments, 1949, statements of accounts for years 1946-49, copies of agenda or notices of motions, 1949-50, printed copy of programme of annual "Eistedfod" in Carmel Chapel, Road, Ashton-in-Makerfield, in 1950 and letter accompanying this programme, 1949) UNOFFICIAL COLLECTIONS ADMINI STRATI ON Minutes (contd.) U135/AM2 Signed minutes, annual general meetings or 1952-55, committee meetings, 1952-55 (1 vol.,binding given 1959 way, enclosing related loose letters, 1955, printed menu for annual dinner in the Airport Hotel, Barton Airport, Manchester, 1955, and copy of undertaking for presentation of concert party in the Central Park, Bolton Road, , 1959)

/AM3 Signed minutes, annual general meetings or committee 1955-60 meetings, 1955-60 (1 vol., binding given way, . enclosing loose balance sheets for years 1956-57 and 1958-59, notes of music bills, 1956-57, 1959, and letter, 1959)

/AM4 Signed minutes, annual general meetings or committee 1960-66 meetings, 1960-66 (1 vol., binding given way, enclosing two newspaper cuttings on Choir after its appearance in Piccadilly Gardens, Manchester, i960 /19607) /AM5 Signed minutes, annual general meetings or committee 1966-69 meetings (1 vol., binding given way)

Miscellanea, /AZ1 Printed admission tickets for concert by the Choir 1978 and Cadishead Public Band in Irlam High School (4 docs.)

LITERARY AND MISCELLANEOUS /Z1 Printed programme for concert by the Choir and the 1980 Police Band in Irlam High School (1 doc.)

/Z2 Photocopy, n.d,, of newspaper cutting, 1980, on 1980 appointment of Mrs. Sylvia Fox, St, George's Crescent, Salford, as Musical Director of the Choir (1 doc,)