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Album of Evelyne Radford, daughter of Jack Radford of Hale End Manor, Walthamstow, Essex, relating to country house parties in England and at Kildonan Lodge, Sutherland, to a cruise and a holiday in the South of France.
Item
Identifier: Acc.13196
Scope and Contents
The album is a record of the weekend and holiday social life of the Radford family, friends of the Drummond family, the Viscounts Strathallan. Evelyn Radford was the spinster daughter of Mrs and Mrs Jack Radford of Hale End Manor, near Walthamstow, Essex. Places visited include: Swaylands House, Penshurt, Kent; West Garty Lodge and Kildonan, Sutherland; Hale End Manor, Essex; Alderwasley, Matlock, Derbyshire; Fornham Park, Bury St Edmunds; The Briars, Byfleet, Surrey; Cranborne Hall, Windsor...
Dates:
1893-1898.
Albums relating to Robert Mossman and the Scottish National Antarctic Expedition, 1902-1905.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.13649
Scope and Contents
Scrapbook relating to Robert Mossman and the Scottish National Antarctic Expedition, 1902-1905. The scrapbook includes: Mossman`s commission as 2nd Lieutenant in the 1st Edinburgh City Volunteer Artillery, 1893; 17 letters, 1902-1905, of Mossman to his father and `Isabella`, concerning his journey and experiences on board ship, destinations on his journey including Kngstown in Ireland, Madeira, the Cape Verde Islands, Port Stanley, the South Orkneys and Buenos Aires; a letter of William...
Dates:
1893-1938
Diaries, albums and photographs of the Campbell, Login and Maitland Mackgill Crichton familes.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.12549
Dates:
circa 1803-1965.
Drawings, photographs, maps, plans and prints, largely from the Cities and Town Planning Exhibition devised by Sir Patrick Geddes.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.13319
Scope and Contents
The Cities and Town Planning Exhibition was originally conceived in conjunction with the first Town Planning Conference of 1910 organised by the Royal Institute of British Architects, at Burlington House, London, to mark the passing of the Housing and Town Planning Act, 1909. Patrick Geddes was asked to be its Director and used it to demonstrate his method of city survey. After the conference, Geddes toured the exhibition to cities interested in learning about the latest developments in...
Dates:
1649-1919, undated
Further papers of and relating to the Douglas of Cavers family.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.13843/1-13
Content Description
Family papers including correspondence, formal documents, commonplace book, genealogical notes, miscellaneous writings, photographs, and estate papers
Dates:
1712-1947, undated.
Game Book compiled by William Lockett Agnew, recording shooting parties on the Altyre Estate, at Aldourie and elsewhere. With numerous illustrations of sporting activities and daily life
Item
Identifier: Acc.13541
Scope and Contents
As well as records of sporting parties and their `bags`, the Game Book provides detailed daily accounts of game seen and weather conditions. The album includes numerous photographs of shooting parties and daily activities, principally on the Altyre Estate and at Aldourie Castle and Fetteresso. Many of the photographs are of estate and household servants. There is a fine series of photographs of the interior of Altyre, several of cycling parties including Sir Luke Fildes, R.A., croquet...
Dates:
1887-1908