| Description | Comprises:
1/ Class 17 Severn Street Men's First Day School attendance register, 1859
2/ History of Hockley Hall Adult School and Mission, Farm St., entitled 'Hockley Adult School and Mission, a Retrospect' by A. Walkley, 1899, printed [This was a Weslyan adult school which was originally started by H. H. Hartshorne in 1868 and known as Aston Villa Sunday School before it moved to Farm Street in Hockley, eventually taking the name Hockley Hall Adult School]
3/ History of Severn Street Christian Society, entitled 'A Short Sketch of the Severn Street Christian Society 1873-1907', by Samuel Price (the late Secretary), n.d., printed
4/ Midland Adult School Union Yearbook, 1911, printed
5/ National Adult School Organisation Directory, 1970, printed
6/ Photographs of a drama performance, n.d., Midland Adult School Union members at MASU centre, n.d. [c. 1980s] and on a trip to Bristol, 1993
7/ Midland Adult School Union Diary, 1941, printed
8/ Midland Adult School Union Directory of Groups, 2001/2002, printed
9/ Severn Street First-Day Schools Scholar's ticket belonging to Leonard Temple of Dolgelly Place, Great Colmore Street, Birmingham, admitted to Class V in January 1902
10/ Midland Adult School Union Art Circle flyer, n.d. 20th cent.
11/ Newspaper cutting relating to the opening of the new Midland Adult School Union headquarters on Cregoe Street, in Lee Bank, Birmingham, 1970
12/ 'MASU Booklet, Quo Vadis 1895 - 1945, a collection of thoughts and statements about the future and purpose of the Adult School Movement and 'MASU, Its History and Purpose' both collated from Annual Reports and articles in 'One and All'', n.d. typescript
13/ Newspaper article 'Sunday Classes for the adults to read' about the 100th anniversary of the Midland Adult School Union, in the Evening Mail, August 18th, 1984 |