| Description | -Severn Street First-Day Adult Schools Class XIV, Northfield Branch rules. Printed. 2 copies. Also includes rules of the Library, Sick Club and Coal Club. Coal Clubs aimed to allow members to be supplied with coal direct from the colleries, therefore making it cheaper than purchasing coal from a coal merchant.
-Photograph of National Adult School Union [officers] at the national Swanwick Conference, n.d. [20th cent.]
-Photograph of members of the Midland Adult School Union Young People's Committee at a weekend conference held at Vigo Bungalow, September 1944
-Order of Service for the funeral of Gordon S. Mear, 1908 - 1988, treasurer of the Midland Adult School Union from 1944, President of Midland Adult School Union in 1967 -8 and President of the National Adult School Organisation in 1972-3, 16th November 1988.
-Midland Adult School Union Sixty-sixth annual report, 1950
-Midland Adult School printed brochure entitled 'Learning to Live' 1947, listing the art, music and drama activities, residentials and youth clubs offered by the Union. Also includes brief descriptions of the Manor House Guest House in Bewdley, St. Oswald's Camp, Rubery and the Bungalow, Vigo, Blackwell and lists all of the Adult Schools in the Union with location and time of meetings.
-'Leominster Women's Adult School Jubilee Book, 1901 - 1951', containing a history and recollections of the Adult School. Printed.
-City of Birmingham Education Committee 'Review, the Journal of the Educational Development Centre', June 1970, containing an article entitled 'The 1870 Act- An educational era in Birmingham'
-Photograph of officers of the National Adult School Organisation and Midland Adult School Union at a Bicentenary Dinner at Leicester, 4th April 1998
-Photographs of adult school members at Nafford Camp, and on the boats named Ptarmigan and the Seagull, built by the Barrow family in the late 1880s/early 1890s, late 19th-early 20th century, with an explanatory note written in 1984
-Souvenir programme of Bearwood Men's Adult School 1899-1949, photographs, hymn sheets and other papers collected by Jack Piper and sent to Arnold Hall during 1963, with their correspondence. Jack Piper was a member of Bearwood Men's Adult School and some of the material relates to this school. Arnold Hall was General Secretary of the National Adult School Organisation for the period 1943 - 1974.
-Resignation letter addressed to 'My dear Friends' from Alfred Southall (1838 - 1931), 26th January 1931, announcing that he was stepping down from the Presidency of Gooch Street Adult School. He was its President for 70 years. Robert Woodhead took over from him, and was President for 30 years.
-Programmes for Midland Adult School Union lunches, 1995-1999, printed
-Friends' Hall Gooch Street Guild programmes, 1919 - 1938, printed.
-Printed National Adult School Union publications:
'A Handbook of information for those who are in any way interested to promote the purposes of the Adult School Union'
'Adult School Education in the New Age' by Gwen Porteous, 'Adult Education: What now?' being the Second National Adult School Lecture delivered in London, October 1949 by Sir Fred Clarke, Professor Emeritus of Education in the University of London
'Education Freedom & Community' being the first National Adult School Lecture delivered in Nottingham, October 1948 by M.V.C. Jeffreys, Professor of Education in the University of Birmingham
National Adult School Union Annual Report, Statement of Accounts and list of subscribers, 1953 and 1956, 'Leicestershire Adult School Union 1889-1989, A Centenary Brochure'
-Miscellaneous printed programmes for the Midland Adult School Art Circle, n.d.; the Midland Adult School Union Drama Committee's annual play 'The Rose without a thorn' by Max Clifford, 1940; the Severn Street and Priory First Day-Schools Jubilee Meeting and Exhibition, 1895; and the centenary brochure for Friends' Hall Gooch Street (Severn Street, Class 17) 1855-1955
-Music and words to 'Lo, here is felawschipe' by R.A. Aytoun, 2 copies with explanatory note. The song was sung each evening at the Bewdley Guest House when Adult School members were staying there.
-Papers relating to Whitsun and summer camps, including menus, shopping lists and duty sheets, 1938 - 1940
- Gooch Street Guild annual report, typescript, 1932 - 1933
-Miscellaneous notes and papers |