Identity area
Reference code
Woollen/1
Unique identifier
GB 275 Woollen/1
Title
Early life, school, and home
Date(s)
- 1895-1907 (Creation)
Level of description
Series
Extent and medium
1 folder, paper, photograph
Context area
Name of creator
(1887-1960)
Repository
Archival history
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Content and structure area
Scope and content
Covers the period that WHW attended the Lavender Hill Board School and Ipswich Grammar School. Includes school reports and certificates, newspaper accounts of school speech day 1907 and King Edward VII's proclamation from Ipswich Town Hall in 1901, school magazines, letters from WHW to his mother whilst on a trip to Cambridge in 1902, manuscript juvenile magazines written by WHW, a handwritten programme for a school dramatic entertainment, an issue of the Lady's Gazette from 1904, a music manuscript book given to WHW by his father in 1895, congratulatory postcards to WHW following success at school, and one photograph of WHW as a schoolboy.