Worcestershire County Council minutes and related documents 2007-2010
History of Needlemaking and related local history.
Journey to work from Redditch New Town, 1966,
Working Paper 47, University of Birmingham. Redditch Register of Electors 1998.
History of some Redditch industries.
Bound copies of Enfield Cycle Co.
Bound copies of Enfield Cycle Co.
Redditch library diaries, annual statistics 1968-1987, new Redditch Library matters 1967-1975.
Library issues statistics,
Various Redditch library posters
Miscellaneous local history items including those relating to Frankley
Solloway collection items (1976) Enfield Cycle Co. and needle making.
Woodrow library statistics.
Local history items including Redditch needles,
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Redditch sport fixtures early 1970s,
Four Redditch Information Packs for students 1998
Local collection – sound recordings.
Enfield Cycle Co. Ltd. items, including W.J. Solloway’s ‘The Townsend Story’ 1966 (bound).
Minutes of Redditch Friends of Music
Proposals for Forge Mill Museum.
Ipsley local history 19th century and early 20th century.
Various histories of the needle.
Solloway collection items (1976) Enfield Cycle Co.
Bound copies of Enfield Cycle Co. press cuttings 1913-1964.
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Bound copies of Enfield Cycle Co. press cuttings 1913-1964.
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Local newspaper cuttings re Redditch Public Libraries 1996-2005.
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Ministry of Education 1961 Working Parties Reports on Inter-Library Co-operation.
21st birthday cards sent to Redditch Libraries.
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Amenities Committees Reports, 1970-1974.
Reports of Urban District Councils Association, and Smaller Libraries Group and related correspondence 1958-1965.
Redditch Public Library Annual Reports 1940-1944, 1957-1966, 1985-1992.
Miscellaneous Hereford and Worcester County Council papers about Redditch Library, 1994.
Miscellaneous papers about other libraries, 1970-1975.
Proposed new libraries. Church Hill, Winyates.
Correspondence re archive Material in Redditch Library 1977-1996.
Correspondence between Redditch New Town Commission and Redditch Public Library 1974-1985.
Documents concerning mobile libraries in Redditch area 1976-1979.
NE Worcestershire Division of Libraries. Progress and Trends 1975-1977.
NE Worcestershire Division of Libraries. Barnt Green library closure 1977.
NE Worcestershire Division of Libraries. Other documents concerning Redditch Library.
Charles Hunt’s three framed certificates from the Enfield Cycle Co.
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Library staff diaries 1983-1988. Alvechurch Branch Library Advisory Committee minutes 1967-1970. Adult plus survey 2003 blank questionnaires.
Newspaper cuttings re Redditch Library 2007-2009.
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Redditch Library displays and committee room diaries 1982-1988.
Redditch Library master diaries 1978-1984.
Flarestack and other poetry publications 1990s.
Four copies of Hereford & Worcester County Council analysis of 1981 census.
Photographs of Redditch (202) by Michael Dowty, taken on Tuesday 18 April
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Items related to new Redditch central library.
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Unopened box labelled 1 No shelf labelled ‘Redditch. Put into storage re April 08 for permanent storage from AL’.
Redditch Arts Council Archives 1971-1974, with early 20th century items.
Redditch Arts Council Archives.
Miscellaneous industries. artefacts e.g. box of needles.
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‘A concept of building for a New Town. Redditch Central Library’ by K. Fallon (file).
Redditch New Town pamphlets pre-1994.
Terry’s Horticultural Society records pre-1974.
Springs from Renown Springs Ltd.
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Newspaper cuttings re Bordesley Bypass circa 1999.
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Redditch Health Missioner Committee minutes 1903-1915 (bound).
Health Committee minutes 1905-1912 (bound).
Tuberculosis Regulations 1912 (bound).
Register of notifications and outcomes up to 1973. Feckenham Rural District Council.
Astwood Bank Water Supply, Regulations and Conditions.
Urban District of Redditch Council tenants’ handbook (bound).
Longbridge Area action plan. public consultation document, March 2008.
Redditch Library matters 1967-1995, including ‘Wythall library then and now 1998.
Feckenham Byelaws 1904 with respect to cleansing of footways and pavements
Byelaws made by The East Worcestershire Waterworks Company 1929.
Urban District of Redditch Tenants Handbook.
Petition against provision of new sewerage system, 1877.
Reports to Library Committee to March 1961, 1961-1968.
Copies of Worcestershire Record Office leaflet 7, May 2001.
Details of ‘Portrait of Redditch’ produced by Redditch Public Library 1957.
Videos of film including master copy.
Redditch Public Library correspondence re local history, 1987-2004.
‘Outline History of Redditch’, by Philip Davis, 1969.
Worcestershire County Council Workbook, ‘Dealing with Difficult People’.
Printed copies of Worcestershire County Council talks, e. g. ‘Delivering Customer Care’ by Jackie Cox, 24 37956
Several framed displays of needles and needle packets
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November 30 1878 wedding card for Samuel Allcock signed by 232 Allcock
Employees at Standard Works (bound).
Two bound copies of the Stag, 1919, 1920 (Quarterly publication for Allcock employees).
Bound newspaper cuttings re. S. Allcock c. 1910.
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Allcock family and business 1876-1886.
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Allcock fishing tackle 1884-1946.
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Bound journals of S. Allcock, 1871-1873. 1873-1876. 1891.
Booklet. Useful information for new employees of S. Allcock and Co. Ltd., Standard Works, Clive Road, Redditch.
Cuttings and jottings re Allcock fish hooks, compiled 1910.
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Items of John Warwood, Ipsley Mills. 1894
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The Common Seal of the Rural District Council of Feckenham (metal).
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Bound photographs of Redditch, published by E. A. Hodges.
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Catalogue of Redditch Institute 1893.
Redditch Philharmonic Society Grand Concert programmes, 1892, 1893.
Large scale map of Feckenham.
Unnamed photos of people.
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Sales particulars, e.g. 1905 land and cottages in Redditch, Ipsley and Studley.
Box, entitled Allcock, containing labels e.g. ‘Poolson Royal Redditch’.
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Items deposited by Mrs. Warwood 1990 (some items listed by P. Davis.)
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Ipsley marriage banns books 1896-1904, 1904-1911.
Parchment deeds to do with the Chambers estate 1727, Warwick Assizes and Prisoners (Edward Chambers, Sheriff of Warwick) 1752
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Two Ipsley Church ‘In Memoriam’ books. Richard Whitehouse 1906, James Whitehouse 1904.
Newspaper cuttings and pages from e.g. Redditch Indicator 1939,
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The Illustrated London News Jubilee Number 1887,
The Birmingham Weekly Post 1909,
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The Chicago Sunday Tribune 1907.
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Various 19th and 20th century receipts.
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Redditch and District Chamber of Trade. attendance at committee meetings 1968- 1992. minutes of meetings 1987-1992.
Drinking glass of The Greyhound with details of the pub.
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Crabbs Cross and Hunt End Gardens and Allotments Association records 1951-1958.
Partridge of Redditch labels.
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Redditch Literary and Scientific Institute. Statistics 1850-1898.
Annual Reports 1893-1924, including some Technical Instruction, and Science and Art classes Reports.
Items re Institute building to become public library 1928.
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M.Sc. dissertations on aspects of drop forging by A. Lawlor & K. Orton (1967) and K. Orton (1968), both items withdrawn from stock.
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Redditch Borough manpower statements 1981-1983.
Redditch New Town Liaison Committee 1969-1970.
Bromsgrove District Joint Committee (librairies) 1983-1985.
Market Location Reports User Information. Market Location Reports. Redditch 1991.
Newspaper cuttings of trade adverts (no dates). Herefordshire and Worcestershire 1991.
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Telegram 1911 sent on behalf of George V. Headless Cross Coronation Committee, 1953.
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Certificates of William Degg, early 20th century.
Letters patent Joseph Welch re ‘improvements of swivels for fishing
Milward poster about 250 years of needlemaking. Milward calendar 1980. C. T. Wareing. letters published by the press 1962-2007. ‘Motor Cars in Needleland’ by William J. Solloway, Redditch, 1960.
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Deeds relating to Smith, James and Simmons families 1866-1898.
A profile of poverty in Herefordshire and Worcestershire 1996.
Redditch and District [War] Relief Fund 1899-1902.
Redditch Rotary Club papers 1961-1965.
Indentures. Katherine Brandon 1674. John Roxen 1677. Joseph Bate 1846. Joseph Hughes 1775. Walter Lewis, John Milward and Victor Milward 1879. Anne and Richard Moore 22 October 1779. Anne and R Richard Moore 23 October 1779.
Documents of Florence Works, Charles Street, including. conveyance from Joseph Mogg to Thomas Perks 1872.
Mortgage from Thomas Perks to William Kinchin, Joseph Hill and Charles Baylis 1873.
Mortgage from Thomas Perks to Lloyds Bank Ltd.
Legal documents. lease 1831, John Walford to William Gibbs.
Mortgage 1832, William Gibbs to Edwin Smallwood.
Release 1831, John Walford to William Gibbs. document 1841, John Walford to William Gibbs.
Mortgage 1862, William Gibbs to Edwin Smallwood.
Mortgage 1871, William Gibbs to Edwin Smallwood.
Mortgage 1846, William Hollington to Richard Field.
Mortgage transfer 1892, from William Gibbs to William Smith.
Partitioning of property, William Smallwood and Paoli Waring.
Lease and release 1824, Paoli Waring to William Hemming.
Lease 1795, Walter Landor to Samuel Ashford.
Purchase 1807, Thomas Bintt from John Wall.
Redditch Rotary Club records, 1952, 1963-1971.
Token (3d.) of Neasom & White,
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Token (3d.) of Charles White.
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Records of Rattue & Arnold, 1939-1941 re Ministry of Supply licence.
Sales book of Hedges Ltd. 1933-1947.
Victor Milward collection 2.Two files of letters, speech, passport etc. 1886-1904. 2 Deposited on permanent loan to Redditch Library (if kept in Redditch Library) by Commander N. R. Corbet- Milward in 1985.
Booklets. First edition of ‘The Comet’,
Record of Jubilee Bonfires in the UK 1897,
2nd Volunteer Battalion Worcestershire The March of the Flying Column 1888, In Memoriam Henry Milward 1878.
Milward family tree with notes.
Obituaries of Victor Milward.
Documents relating to building of 129 & 131 New Road, Bromsgrove.
Chillingworth accounts 1808-1811,
Correspondence. Legal documents. lease 1595, signed by Horbach.
Photocopy of document 1878, concerning Samuel Allcock and Alfred Tayworth. bill for dividing and enclosing Redditch Common and Webheath.
Auction 1839 of land previously of John Peakman deceased.
Photocopy of charter of Alvechurch 1603.
Photocopy of patent of Joseph Morris of Astwood Bank 1853 re envelopes for needles.
Document 1820 including inventory and accounts concerning, e.g. V. Biggs and Samuel Barker.
Lease 1829, Earl of Plymouth to William Hemming, of needle mill and premises at Redditch.
Recovery rolls 1775, re property in Tamworth, Erdington and Aston involving Thomas Francis Martin, James Hamilton, and John Mackallah.
Will and transcript of Harry Meysy 1558.
Transcript of inventory of Master Harry Mesye of Redditch in 1558, with photocopy of original inventory.
Transcripts of extracts from Quarter Sessions Rolls 1591-1643 re Redditch people.
Transcript of extracts from Guildhall registers of freemen 1684-1726 with family tree of those (including Studley people) in extracts.
Copy of related documents 1685, 1686 e.g. of Needlemaker, Studley.
For overseers of poor in Upper Ipsley 1903.
Names and addresses of 5 ratepayers and rates they had to pay.
Documents of Smallwood family.
Smallwood Hospital, 3rd and 5th annual reports 1897, 1899.
Smallwood Almhouses, constitution and bye-laws. relations of Edwin Smallwood, list of legacies.
1880 accounts of executors of late Henry Smallwood.
Solicitor’s accounts re Edwin Smallwood, deceased.
Documents of William Smallwood of Alcester related to his work as auctioneer.
Will of Emma Maria Stephens, Alcester, 1904.
Letter, 1859, with transcript, to ‘the mayor of Redditch’ from Dr. Beeg, Rector of a Bavarian
Technical School re use of fans or blowers in Redditch needle trade.
Agreement, 1862, between Joseph Morris and John Bradley of Astwood Bank, re application for patent concerning steam driven vehicles.
Specification, 1853, of Joseph Morris’s envelope for needles.
Patent approval of design for needle case by Morris and Yeomans, 1857.
Patent approval, 1856, of Joseph Morris & Sons for needle case.
Will of William Henry Yeomans of Astwood Bank, 1878.
Booklets (undated). Herbert Terry & Sons,
Forgings 3 (different) High Duty Alloys Forgings Ltd,
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Redditch Industrial Archaeology 1969-1970.
Rainfall data for the Redditch area (Severn Trent Water Authority) 1980-1982.
List of women delivered by H. Taylor 1790s (bound).
Minutes of Board of Health (re cholera) 1832 (bound).
Characters and Craftsmen (of Bromsgrove) by Loppylugs and Barbara Morrison (bound).
Worcestershire Regiment in the Great War by Captain H. FitzM. Stacke (1928 bound).
39th Volunteer Rifle Corps Muster Roll 1860-1863.
Wythall Community Association, 2 vols. 1942-1969, 1970-2000.
Treasurer’s account book re sick benefit 1922-1957. Redditch
District Nursing Association. minute books, 1924-1936 1937-1952 with a few annual reports. accounts 1908-1947.
Pharmacist’s lists of medication for patients, 3 vols. 1944-1946, 1946-1947, 1947-1949.
Dedication to Dr. H. M. Page 1881.
National Health Insurance prescription book, circa 1910, from Hedges shop.
Catalogue of the museum of the Redditch Technical School circa 1900.
Minutes of the Redditch Institute Technical Instruction and Science Classes Committee 1891-1896.
Redditch Institute Technical Instruction and Science Register of classes 1892/3 to 1894/5.
Redditch Institute Technical Instruction and Science Minutes of the Subcommittee for the new [Technical] School 1900-1907.
Redditch School of Art. accounts 1951-1960.
Redditch School of Art. Stock book 1935-1955.
Redditch School of Art. Register 1925/6.
Redditch School of Art. Lists of students and fees 1879-1903.
Redditch School of Art. Registers 1872-1906.
Redditch School of Art. Admission and fees register 1955.
Atlas Nouveau Contenant Toutes Les Parties du Monde, 1783.
Auction catalogues and posters of equipment and livestock of various farms in Warwickshire and Worcestershire 1925-1934.
Instructions for operating paraffin farm tractors.
Catalogue of telescopes and binocular glasses.
Five ‘The Model Engineer and Electrician’ magazines (one 1912, four early 1920s). two ‘The Model Engineer and Practical Electrician’ magazines from 1930 and 1933), one ‘Practical Engineering’ magazine from 1940.
A ‘Better Beekeeping’ journal from 1936.
‘Taylor’s Bee Supplies’ catalogue 1936.
Worcestershire Bee-Keepers’ Association 60th Annual Report 1942.
Sale catalogue (including photos) and map of outlying portions of Hewell estate 1919.
Short history [1964-1967] of Swan shows, Alvechurch.
Postcards circa 1910 of Smallwood Hospital and St. Stephen’s Church.
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Items about postcard exhibition [4,000 postcards] 1961.
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Redditch Wesleyan circuit magazine, August 1927.
Pages of Redditch Indicator (8 January 1944, 14 February 1942. Headless Cross magazine (1903?).
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Fifteen Ogden’s Guinea Gold cigarette cards of actresses.
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Several early 1900 postcards of Redditch and outlying areas.
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‘A Thousand Years in Tardebigge’ by Margaret Dickins (1931).
Redditch Congregational Church 1828-1928
Booklet. Headless Cross programme for 1953 Coronation celebrations.
Several old postcards and photos of Redditch and outlying area.
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‘Geography of Worcestershire' Adapted to the New Code’ by W. G. Fretton.
‘Old Redditch’ by William Avery, 1887.
Wolverley souvenir booklet celebrating 1953 coronation.
Redditch Street plan, late 1930s.
Two Redditch Indicator Reprints. ‘Needles’ 1936, ‘Notes on a Decayed Needle Land and The Sewing Needle’ compiled by William Shrimpton 1897.
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Milward poster about 250 years of Needlemaking.
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C. T. Wareing. letters published by the press 1962-2007.
‘Motor Cars in Needleland’ by William J. Solloway, Redditch, 1960.
Several copies of Redditch Planning and Development Handbook.
S. R. H. English’s thesis material and draft copy of ‘John English & Co. Feckenham Needle manufacturer and merchants 1730-1933’
33 Bound copy in two volumes in basement on shelf on opposite wall. 4 Engraved on one side. ‘REDDITCH PUBLIC LIBRARY & SCHOOL OF ART’. On other side ‘CR ARTHUR P. WELLS 10TH MARCH 1956’. Card inside case. ‘To Councillor Arthur P. W. Wells from Mr. and Mrs
Cuttings from Redditch local newspapers 1987-2002,
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Theophilus Amout’s book of newspaper cuttings 1874-1894.
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‘Midland Arithmetic’ booklet of Standard IV exercises, 1896.
Plan of heating, ventilating, gas, hot and cold water services Redditch Central Library 1975.
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Cuttings from Redditch local newspapers 1986-2003. ‘Standards of public library service in England and Wales’ HMSO 1961. Sayers’ Manual of Classification for Librarians’ by Arthur Maltby, 1975. Redditch [Literary and Scientific] Institute minutes, 8 volum
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‘The William Avery Memorial Volumes’ compiled by H. Page 1906. 10 volumes of newspaper cuttings and leaflets about events in Redditch.
Miscelaneous Local History
Two copies of ‘Communiversity. College and Community in a New Town’ by By K.C. Morley, 1965.
Two copies of ‘Archaeology of Redditch New Town’, ed. T. Rowley, 1969.
Reports of the [Redditch] Development Corporation 1967-1968.
‘The Needle Mills’ by J. G. Rollins, 1970.
Directory of Trades in Redditch New Town,1973.
Redditch Official Guide, 1973.
Miscelaneous Local History
[Redditch] Household Survey 1971, 1973, 1975 (2 copies plus 1 volume of tables).
‘Bordesley Abbey, Redditch’ by P. Rahtz & S. Hirst, Birmingham University 1976.
‘Bordesley Abbey II’ by S. M. Hirst, D. A. Walsh & S. M. Wright 1983.
‘A Study of Distribution of Social Need in Redditch’ (Birmingham University draft 1976).
‘Ecological Study [of Redditch]’ by F. Fincher 1996.
Redditch New Town Interim Report on Planning Proposals by H. Wilson & L. Womersley, 1965.
Redditch New Town. Town Centre (Redditch Development Corporation) 1968.
‘Travels in the East’ by Hon. Robert Clive M. P. 1851).
‘The Redditch Society Dinner “Coming of Age” Dec. 3rd 1965’ seating plan.
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Redditch Citizens Advice Bureau file, 1988.
Brass key in presentation case.
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Lists of some documents at Worcestershire Record Office pre-1974. list of Redditch Council financial archives, 1843-1930s.
Redditch Society. minutes 1948-1965. Financial papers. programmes 1963- 2004. documents 1949-1951. minutes 1946-1953. correspondence 1946-1953.
Fifty pence piece commemorating libraries1850-2000.
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Redditch Society. miscellaneous. documents 1953-1957. manuscript of lecture delivered in 1994 when Society’s 50th anniversary. correspondence 1961-1967, 1985-1990. minutes 1953-1960, 1988-1991.
Redditch Arts Council Newsletters 1963-1967. accounts 1947-1968. membership details. yearly programmes 1977-1992. correspondence and speakers’ details. reports on Society by Redditch Advertiser.
Redditch Society. programme lists 1957/8 to 1979/80. programme cards 1957/8 to 1983/4. AGM minutes 1953-1974. minutes 1975-1977. copies of letters re speakers 1975-6. correspondence 1974-5, organising secretary’s file 1976-7. autographed posters 1966-1974
Three books of press cuttings re Redditch Urban District Council 1896-98, 1906.
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Book of local and national press cuttings WW1 and 1920s.
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Herbert Terry & Sons catalogues (1 of no. 15, 2 of no. 17).
Address presented to William Avery 1891.
Two files of press cuttings (photos) undated.
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