ROYAL WANSTEAD SCHOOL ARCHIVE MATERIAL This list relates to the material held by Marianne Thorne All items are to be passed to the care of the Royal Wanstead Children’s Foundation to go into storage on 3 February 2011, with the exception of those printed in red and italics. These latter items are to be passed in the first instance to Keith Jemmett on behalf of the Friends of Royal Wanstead so that he and the Foundation can decide between themselves which organisation or person should hold them on a permanent basis. BOX 1 1. Plastic bag labelled ‘Maps and plans from Snaresbrook etc. RWF office’, containing same. 2. Ring binder labelled ‘1940s/1950s.’ ‘Senior Boys. Robin Webb, Tony Bigley’ ‘Preparatory School etc. Daphne Manifold, Janne McNeice & Edith Bothwell. 1940s/50s etc.’, containing copies of photographs. 3. Box file labelled ‘Reedhams/ROSA’, containing mostly newsletters and reunions information. 4. Folder labelled ‘Andrew Reed. Chapel etc. LMA. Photos. Grave’, containing photographs, Abney Park Cemetery guide, street map of Woking and Marianne’s speech to Reed’s School Founder’s Day in 2003. 5. Box file labelled ‘Reed’s School (L.O.A.) inc. memoir 19th century’, containing mostly historical accounts and Marianne’s correspondence. 6. Level arch file (unlabelled), containing historical accounts and records. 7. Box file (unlabelled), containing handwritten notes. 8. Box file labelled on side ’Royal Wanstead School. Pre closure. Closure. Post 1971’ and on front ‘RW School pre 1971 from Foundation archives + pre closure, 1960s’, containing various historical accounts and records. 9. Box of index cards, containing information relating to old scholars and other contacts (possibly out of date). 10. Booklet ‘Royal Wanstead Foundation …25 Years On…’ (x 19). 11. Book ‘Nowhere Else’ by Colin Morrison 1993 x 1 including insert on observations on detail by Lawrence AW Francis of the Wanstead Historical Society (x 2). 12. Plastic folder, containing fragment of book spine reading ‘Infant Orphan’ (rest missing). 13. Floppy disc labelled ’15. RWS. Buckler Boards + Chapel. Note – JPG Files (6)’. 14. Hanging file labelled ‘RW Foundation Artefacts etc in office, Cobham’, containing photographs. 15. Booklet ‘Remembering Royal Wanstead’ labelled ‘annotated’ and with Marianne’s annotations. 16. Magazine ‘West Essex Life’ from April 2004 which contains article on architecture of Snaresbrook Crown Court. 17. Booklet ‘Royal Wanstead School Foundation 1843-1993. 150 years of Care and Education’ (x 5). 18. CD labelled ‘Some randon (sic) entries in “The Times” for “Infant Orphan Asylum” 1822-1845 inclusive. Windows XP. BAS June 2006”. 19. Punched pocket folder (unlabelled), containing handwritten notes. 20. Typed notes labelled ‘Extract from main file + put in Cand book file’. Page 1 of 8 BOX 2 21. Ring binder labelled ‘Portraits. Conservation’, containing various material. 22. Folder labelled ‘Portraits at Ilford Local Studies. RWS/RIO/IOA’, containing various material. 23. Plastic folder labelled ‘Royal Merchant Navy School’, containing various material. 24. Plastic folder labelled ‘Convalescent Home. IOA. Margate. Margate Cemetery’, containing various material. 25. Box file labelled ‘Wanstead Historical Society’, containing various material. 26. Plastic folder (unlabelled), containing some of Marianne’s speeches and overheads. 27. Booklet ‘Home in the Forest. A Visit to the Infant Orphan Asylum, Wanstead. 28. Candidates’ Book, with an accompanying label ‘This is the original Candidates’ Book, dated 1827. It was rescued by Janne McNeice (teacher)’. 29. Punched pocket folder (unlabelled), mostly containing material about John Edmed and Joan Edmed. 30. Handwritten notes labelled ‘Andrew Reed’. 31. Photocopied papers labelled ‘re Q Mum. Annual Report + NL’. 32. Ring binder (unlabelled), containing newspaper articles about Snaresbrook Crown Court. 33. Ring binder (unlabelled), containing references to the Infant Orphan Asylum in The Times. 34. Ring binder with part-torn off label reading ‘Correspondence 2005 post-reunion’, containing various material including 1939 Royal Patronage and John Edmed (although not containing correspondence). 35. Roll labelled ‘Maps and plans. Andrew Reed. London. East End. Cemetery’ and ‘Andrew Reed. Maps. London. E End, Cemetery’, containing maps. 36. Architects’ drawings of an un-named church or chapel. 37. History and content of the Buckler Boards and associated information, compiled by Marianne. 38. Typed copy of information on the Buckler Boards including corrections (x 2). 39. Folder with topsheet reading ‘Previous loose material (Various)’ containing various previously loose material (mostly photographs and photocopies) put together for the purpose of compiling this list. 40. Ring binder labelled ‘Hilhouse Society News Sheet 1930-34. Hilhouse Journal 1936- 39 & 1946. Old Wansteadians’ Journal 1949-1963, 1965, 1966, 1968, 1969/70’, containing same. 41. Ring binder labelled ‘RWS. Index to school register. 1947-71’, containing same. 42. Ring binder (unlabelled), containing copies of school photographs and keys. 43. Book ‘Through Tears and Laughter’ by Phyllis Ing 2006. 44. Punched pocket folder (unlabelled) containing correspondence concerning book ‘Andrew Reed. The Greatest is Charity’ by Ian J Shaw 2005. 45. Book ‘Andrew Reed. The Greatest is Charity’ by Ian J Shaw 2005 (x 3, two with a label signed by the author). 46. Book ‘The Home on the Hill. The Story of Reedham’ by Harry Edward Rolph 1981. 47. Book ‘Goodchild. A Kink of a Life’ by Paul Goodchild 2005. 48. Book ‘A Touch of TLC’ by Anne Monument, together with letter from sender and reply from Marianne asking why it had been sent. 49. Booklet ‘Education by Election. Reed’s School, Clapton and Watford’ by Norman Alvey 1990. 50. Book ‘Faith is the Spur. Andrew Reed and the Schools and Hospitals He Founded’ by James McMillan and Norman Alvey 1993. 51. Lever arch file labelled ‘Material used in exhibition 1997. 1827-1936 copies’, containing same. 52. Lever arch file labelled on spine ‘1937-1946’ and on front ‘Exhibition material 1997. 1937-46 copies’, containing same. Page 2 of 8 53. Lever arch file labelled on spine ‘1947-2000 +’ and on front ‘Exhibition material 1997 +. 1947-2000 +’, containing same. 54. Lever arch file (unlabelled), containing enquiries and replies concerning old scholars with surnames E-Q. 55. Lever arch file labelled ‘No. 1 Candidates’ Books’, containing enquiries and replies concerning old scholars with surnames A-D. BOX 3 (part of) 56. Lever ach file labelled ‘No. 1 Candidates’ Books’, containing enquiries and replies concerning old scholars with surnames R-Z. 57. Folder labelled ‘RWCF office. Artefacts’, containing photographs of same. 58. Lever arch file (unlabelled), containing typed lists of information from Candidates’ Books. 59. Lever arch file labelled ‘Daphne Manifold & Janne McNeish 1940s/50s etc.’ with additional label on front ‘Prep + Junior School’, containing various material (e.g. annual reports, news sheets, magazines and newspaper articles). 60. Ring binder labelled on spine ‘Edgecombe Junior School (Crown Court)’ and on front ‘Edgecombe Junior School – Junior School 1950s), containing photographs of same. 61. Plastic folder (unlabelled), containing photocopies of sections of books relating to they RWS and Andrew Reed, transcription of petition format, description of candidates’ book entry format, transcription of some IOA General Committee minutes, and transcription, photocopies and correspondence about magazine articles. 62. Punched pocket folder (unlabelled), containing typed summary of schools founded by Andrew Reed. 63. Folder labelled (by me) ‘Previously loose material – various’, containing same. 64. Punched pocket folder (unlabelled), containing description of Candidates’ Books. 65. Punched pocket folder (unlabelled), containing description of format of entries in Candidates’ Books. 66. Folder labelled ‘Royal Wanstead School / Foundation’, containing maps and guides of locations associated with the RWS. 67. Folder labelled (under flap) ‘Masters. Hyde Hall. Photo copies. Text. Maps.’, containing same. 68. Folder labelled ‘Hyde Hall, History. ’95. Copies + notes given to residents’, containing same. 69. Folder with photocopy of front page of ‘Home in the Forest’ on front, containing photocopy of and information on same. 70. Cut folder labelled (on insert) ‘PRO. HO. 107/1769. 1851 +’, containing photocopies of entries in enumeration books. 71. Folder labelled (by me) ‘Recent correspondence and enquiries – Previously loose material’, containing same. This appears to be much of what Marianne was working on just before and during her illness. 72. Folder labelled (by me) ‘Memorabilia (paper) – Previous loose material’, containing same. This appears to be material sent to Marianne just before and during her illness. 73. Folder labelled (by me) ‘Previously loose copies of Wanstead Historical Society Journal’, containing same. 74. Folder labelled (by me) ‘Previously loose photocopies of maps’, containing same. 75. Folder labelled (by me) ‘Previously loose building plans and associated material’, containing same. 76. Folder (unlabelled), containing photographs, plans and other information on Hyde Hall. 77. Folder (unlabelled), containing photographs of Ingatestone Hall. Page 3 of 8 BOX 11 - OUTSIZE BOX (part of) 78. Plastic bag labelled ‘Ingatestone Hall 1919’, containing plans of same. 79. Plastic bag labelled ‘Sawbridgeworth C19’, containing plans of same. 80. Rolled-up large-scale photocopies of drawing of front entrance