Reference
Z1127/4
Title
Scrapbook compiled by the donor when she was 18 and living in Bedford; the book contains a number of different cuttings
Date free text
1949
Production date
From: 1949 To: 1949
Scope and Content
Cuttings include:
- itinerary of outing to Tom Arnold's Mammoth Christmas Circus at Harringay Arena;
- photograph, presumably of the donor;
- pass to Eastern Electricity Board staff party at Social Club in Cauldwell Street, Bedford;
- letter informing her she had been elected a member of Bedford High School Guild;
- programme to Emile Littler's eighth annual London pantomime - Humpty Dumpty at London Casino with Julie Andrews as Humpty Dumpty;
- flyer for The Barber of Seville at Picturedrome, Bedford;
- passes for Igranic Rugby Club dances at Kempston Club House;
- snapshot of suspension bridge over Great Ouse, Bedford;
- programme for Grosvenor Citizen's Club, Bedford fourth birthday;
- pass to and programme for Bedfordshire Drama Festival, part of National Festival of Community Drama arranged by English Drama League, with performances by Bedford Dramatic Club, North Bedfordshire College of Further Education Drama Group, Willington WI, Bedford Telephone Area Dramatic Club, Riseley Village Players, Dunstable Repertory Company, Biscot Youth Fellowship and Luton Amateur Operatice and Dramatic Society;
- Programme for Bedford Camera Club 21st annual exhibition;
- programme for The Humoureskes at Grosvenor Club;
- receipt for ladies shoes from Ernest A.Taylor of 23 Harpur Street, Bedford;
- receipt for dress from Joys of High Street, Bedford;
- programme for Whipsnade Zoo;
- programmes for Falcon Players performances at Royal County Theatre, Bedford;
- letter to staff from British Electricity Authority reviewing the first year since nationalisation;
- donation to Bedford & County Golf Club 18 Hole Replacement Fund;
- receipt for dress from A.Leigh of St.Peter's Street, Bedford;
- programme for concert by London Philharmonic Orchestra at Corn Exchange, Bedford;
- programme for outing to Southsea [Hampshire];
- appeal leaflet regarding new headquarters for Bedford YMCA at 40 Clapham Road, with photograph of building;
- programme for production of Sauce Tartare at Cambridge Theatre, London;
- programme for Emile Littler's Annie Get Your Gun at The London Coliseum;
- letter (to local newspaper?) from a resident attacking Bedford as "quiet, complacent, deadly country town. half the week it has the atmosphere of a brewery, the other half, of a cabbage field";
- packet that contained Cristo Golden Potato Crisps made by Germinated Grain Products Limited at Turvey Mills, Turvey
Level of description
item