Photography - Nottinghamshire - Arnold, Bestwood and Daybroo...

Hammer

£240

Photography - Nottinghamshire - Arnold, Bestwood and Daybrook - an extensive collection of visual and written material relating to the history Arnold (now part of Gedling District, and effectively a suburb of Nottingham) collected post-war by M. W. Spick, consisting of copies of historic documents, ancient deeds etc., several albums of newspaper and other cuttings, a number of valuable house surveys with plans and photographs, including old Home Brewery site, Moira House (dem. 1978), 83-93 Nottingham Road, and other mainly Georgian houses, copies of maps of various periods;publications including Arnold Red Book 1914, Home Brewery 1990 Centenary of Incorporation (much supplemented), Chamberlain L. J., Memories of Worksop & the Dukeries(1960s MS A4), P. Foster, Sir John Robinson (c 1960), Homes Ales Fermenting Room (1958), The Daybrook Laundry Story 1875-1975 (1975), Daybrook Laundry Co. 38pp booklet and price list (1912), also approximately 1,500 photographs (most numbered in albums with MS key to identification), originals, postcards and many copies of originals, some reproduced from private collections, including all aspects of life in the area, groups, sports and welfare teams, bands, police, exhaustive record of streets, buildings, churches and chapels, pubs, ’bus and tram street scenes Jacoby’s factory fires 1913 & 1939, demolitions, aerials including 1945 ex-RAF, large houses, railway station (Daybrook) including several 1950s trains featuring locomotives: B1s (including 61136), C13 (67363), K2/2s (incl. 61821) & 04 2-8-0 (qty)