| Description | A number of portraits and pictures hung in the old meeting house for which there was insufficient space in the current building, opened in 1933. Those that could not be hung were stored in the basement. At the outbreak of the Second World War, those which were on display were taken down and also stored in the basement. They remained in the basement until the 1950s until it was decided that only those of local interest should be kept. Edwin O. Ransome compiled a schedule portraits and paintings and arranged for them to be removed from their frames so that they could be more easily stored. At the same time, on the suggestion of William Adlington Cadbury, it was decided that large scale portraits would be photographed and printed in a smaller format and compiled into a single volume with background information about each individual so that the large portraits could be destroyed.
This file includes an inventory of portraits and paintings which were stored in the basement at Bull St. Meeting House as well as a list of which portraits and pictures were to be given away. These were given to Ayton School, Friends' Library London and Friends' Historical Library, Swarthmore, Pennsylvania. The file also includes 2 printed copies of 'A record by a member of the Meeting', a speech given by W. A. Cadbury, read at the Congregational Meeting at Bull St. 28 March 1950. The correspondence is mainly between Edwin O. Ransome and William Adlington Cadbury.
Arranged in reverse chronological order. |