Reference
X351/31
Title
Everton Women's Institute Scrapbook
Date free text
1965
Production date
From: 1965 To: 1985
Scope and Content
Inside front cover: map of village, July 1965 (hand drawn, not to scale).
p.1: Golden Jubilee cover of W.I.’s ‘Home and Country’ magazine for May 1965.
p.2: [blank]
p.3: brief description of Everton.
pp.4-5: brief descriptions of village services (tradesmen, doctors and hospitals, transport).
p.6: ‘Postcards on sale at Everton P.O. in 1965’ (photographs and brief descriptions; two views of Sandy Road, one of The Thornton Arms (showing Manor Farm in the foreground), and one of Potton Road.
p.7: ‘Agriculture’, with three magazine pictures of men driving tractor with (in order) three-furrow plough, disc-harrows and a seed drill.
p.8: ‘Main Crops’.
p.9: ‘Pests and Sprays’ (with magazine picture of sprayer and advertisement cutting [?] for Gesapax, a weed control for early and maincrop potatoes).
p.10: ‘Dairy Herd’(mentions sole herd, Ayreshires at Storey Farm owned by Mr. R.J.V. Astell of Woodbury Hall); magazine pictures of hay conditioner and combine-harvesters.
p.11: ‘The Village School’ and ‘Sports Day’.
p.12: ‘Retirement of Headmistress’ (Mrs. Zadaih Peck), with newspaper picture of presentation to her of silver tea service; ‘Swimming Pool’.
p.13: ‘General Facts: Modernisation of Cottages [with aerial photograph including thatched cottage of Mr. J. Hull, a market gardener]; Television Transmitter’.
p.14: ‘Royal Garden Party’ (with invitation addressed to Mr. and Mrs. Sidney Gurney); ‘Birth of Twins’.
p.15: ‘Wedding Bells’ (with wedding picture of Mr. and Mrs. Michael Adams [bride née Christine Fuller]).
p.16: ‘Funerals’; ‘Post Office’.
p.17: ‘Everton United Football Club’ (with photographs of the Cup-winning team and people at the Victory Dinner, including Mrs. Peck)
p.18: ‘Everton Cricket Club’; ‘Honours’.
p.19: cover of December 1965 edition of the parish magazine, and paragraph about the fundraising for critical repairs to the church tower.
p.20: ‘Church Activities’.
p.21: ‘Mother’s Union’.
pp.22-32: pages on the W.I. Golden Jubilee year, with sections on ‘Buckingham Palace Garden Party’ (with photograph of the Everton W.I.’s representative, Miss Mence); ‘March’ (with two colour and two black-and-white photographs of planting of red oak tree on recreation ground); 11 May luncheon at the Corn Exchange, Bedford, with invitation; cover of Golden Jubilee issue of W.I. magazine (East Midland Edition); ‘May’ (with leaflet and ticket from the Golden Jubilee Fair at Redborne School, Ampthill, on 22 May); W.I. AGM in London, 25 & 26 May (with entrance and voting tickets, and booklet for AGM, annotated with voting results); ‘The WI’s’, a poem by C. Day Lewis in celebration; note of W.I. taking children and grandchildren to pantomime instead of holding the January meeting (with programme and ticket for S.P.A.D.S. [St. Paul's Amateur Dramatic Society] production of ‘Dick Whittington’ at St. Francis’ Theatre, Letchworth); February (film show) meeting, jointly with Potton W.I., with ticket for ‘Housewives’ Own’ Film Show (23rd edition) (films Shopping Day, by J. Sainsbury Ltd.; Coats Sewing Group, by J. & P. Coats Ltd; and Well I’m Blowed, by the Glass Manufacturer’s Federation).
p.33: ‘Dress and Furnishing Materials Used in 1965’ (with samples).
p.34: ‘Wallpapers Used in 1965, with Prices per Roll of 11½ yards’ (with samples).
p.35: advertisement cuttings for Dandycord plastic floor-covering, Gaydon melamine tableware and Kraft Cracker Barrel cheddar cheese.
p.36: advertisement cuttings for Courtelle fabrics and knitting wool, and Weathergay Ltd. trendy plastic mackintoshes.
Inside back cover: colour photographs (post-1965; c. early 1980s?) of unspecified celebration and menu leaflet for The Thornton Arms, Everton (proprietor, F.R. Green).
Format
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Reference
Level of description
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