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Description: | About 350 books and journals, mainly histories and accounts of the Wimbledon area and its community.
About 4,000 items of ephemera, classified under 430 sub-categories, including leaflets, handbills, brochures, programmes and newsletters from 1870 to date, issued by local bodies and organisations and organisers of sport and entertainment events. There are also sale particulars of houses and land in the area, receipts for goods and services purchased, ration books and other wartime mementoes, trasnport timetables, maps and tickets. The Woman's Suffrage material and the collection of Wimbledon Theatre programmes from 1910 to date are noteworthy.
A large collection of newscuttings comprising, eleven scrapbooks of unclassiufied material, from 1914 to late 1960s, with over 60 folders of cuttings from 1970 onwards classified under 32 headings such as charitieis, churches, schools, hospitals, pubs, roads and streets, theatre, transport as well as local personalities. | Source: | Cornucopia - Discovering UK Collections | Address: | 22 Ridgway
Wimbledon
London Great Britain (UK),
SW19 4QN | Telephone: | 020 8296 9914 | Identifier: | oai:www.cornucopia.org.uk:5122 | Go to resource |
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