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Checkley Collection
Shown below is a complete list of the Items stored at
the Norfolk
Record Office awaiting a Museum in Holt
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| Repository |
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| Title |
| Album 2: photographs and copies of
photographs. |
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| Date |
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| Description |
| Includes High Street; Spout Hills; the
market place; Obelisk Plain; Holt Hall; Cromer Road tea gardens;
railway station; opening of new Gresham's School buildings on
Cromer Road 1903; aftermath of fire at Messrs Byfords, ironmongers
with copy of press cutting 1906; Church choir 1910; Hempstead by
Holt 1915; decorations for jubilee celebrations 1916, 1935;
dedication of war memorial 1921; committee of the Holt and
District British Legion 1926-1927; Holt Special Police 1940; and Checkley
collection of Holt crested china 1987. |
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| Repository |
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| Title |
| Scrapbook of press cuttings concerning
Holt and area. |
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| Date |
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| Description |
| Including Archie Checkley
and his collection, 1977-1978 and August-December 1979 and
the North Norfolk coast floods of January 1978 . |
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| Repository |
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| Title |
| Letter, Mrs Gray of Holt History Group
asking whether Mr Checkley had a
photograph of the Jubilee Lantern 'Blind Sam' which could be used
as guidance to enable its restoration, including a copy of a
photograph she already had. |
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| Repository |
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| Title |
| Bills sent by Holt tradesmen to Henry
Byford of Holt 1913-1914, with 1 bill from John Burroughes Ltd.,
Holt to Archie Checkley 1973. |
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| Repository |
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| Title |
| Papers concerning Holt and District a
Portrait in Old Picture Postcards by Rhoda Bunn (1990). |
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| Date |
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| Description |
| Photocopy of acknowledgement to Archie Checkley
for use of his postcards; local press cuttings about the
book 1990; photocopies of letters from former residents of Holt
describing the writers' own memories of the town. |
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| Repository |
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| Title |
| Miscellaneous papers, photographs and
postcards. |
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| Date |
| nd [late 19th century]-1992 |
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| Description |
| Includes postcards of postman and
telegraph boy nd. [late 19th or early 20th century]; photographs
from local newspapers of inspection of the 6th Cycle Battalion
Royal Sussex Regiment during the First World War, Holt water tower
1938, opening of Holt Memorial Field 1938, purchase of Holt
ambulance 1938, Holt Wesleyan Sunday School; photographs (some
copies) of Remembrance Sunday service nd. [1920s or 1930s], Archie
Checkley as a boy at Spout Hills and on a
donkey nd. [late 1920s], outings to the Football Cup final
1947-1950, St John's Ambulance Brigade parade and service and
British Legion parade nd. [1950s or 1960s], unveiling of ward at ?Kelling
Hospital by Princess Anne 1989, Checkley 's
collection of Holt crested china 1980s, Holt Sign nd, bowls match
nd, exterior of the Regal Cinema nd; typescript history of the
Queen Victoria 1887 jubilee column and lantern 1992; order of
service for North Norfolk Branch Far East Prisoners of War
Dependant's Association remembrance service nd. |
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| Repository |
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| Title |
| Album III (part 2 of 2); postcards and
photographs (some are copies). |
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| Date |
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| Description |
| Includes High Street, the market place;
Holt Obelisk; St Andrew's Church; the water tower; the railway
station; Swedish girls on an exchange visit with Holt Red Cross c
1947; Red Cross flower shows 1965 and 1966; demolition of Norwich
Road cottages for road widening 1972; Holt Carnival 1977;
photocopy of press cutting about Checkley and
his collection, with accompanying photograph 1977; Holt town sign
1987; greetings cards of sketches and watercolours of Holt scenes
1987-1988; cricket teams, nd; bowls club, nd; and fire brigade, nd.
(Item missing when album was received by the Norfolk Record
Office: MC 2043/269a). |
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| Repository |
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| Title |
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| Date |
| 19th century-20th century |
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| Arrangement |
| When the collection was received by the
Norfolk Record Office, the items contained in MC 2043/1-5, 49-51
were transferred from their original albums into archival box
files and the plastic sleeves holding the postcards were replaced
with new sleeves of archival quality. This was necessary for the
future preservation of the collection, as the condition of some
items in the albums was beginning to deteriorate. Because of the
volume of material in MC 2043/2-3, 49-51 the pages from each
original album have been split between two box files, but the
document reference numbers reflect the original albums (e.g. MC
2043/2/1-147 and MC 2043/2/148-310 were originally one album).
Some items, obviously once present, were removed from the albums
before they were received by the Norfolk Record Office. These are
noted as missing in this list. |
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| AdminHistory |
| Mr Archie Checkley, who worked in a
newsagent's shop in Holt, had a keen interest in his native town
and amassed a large collection of photographs, postcards, press
cuttings and other papers regarding Holt and its surrounding area.
He carefully mounted this memorabilia into albums. He was also a
keen collector of postcards and assembled three albums of
Christmas and new year postcards as well as two albums about
Diana, Princess of Wales. For a local newspaper article on Mr
Checkley's collection, written in December 1977, see MC
2043/3/191, 909X2 or MC 2043/16, 910X4. |
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| Acquisition |
| Received by the Norfolk Record Office
on 27 July 1999 (ACC 1999/74 numbered MC 2043/1-53) and on 4 July
2001 (ACC 2001/90 numbered MC 2043/54). List completed on 30 June
2000 and amended 6 July 2001. |
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| Repository |
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| Title |
| Album 3: photographs and copies of
photographs. |
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| Date |
| nd [mid 19th century]-1988 |
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| Description |
| Includes aerial view of the town 1955;
High Street; Spout Hills; the market place; Obelisk Plain; the
Wesleyan Methodist Chapel; Holt Mill; the Post Office on Shirehall
Plain; the Regal Cinema; photograph of sketch of the Old Grammar
School, pre 1858, and photograph of the school c 1870; pupils and
headmaster from Holt Board School 1902; the opening of the
swimming pool at Gresham's School 1907; the Preston family of Holt
1910-1911; coronation celebrations 1911; River Glaven floods 1912;
dedication of war memorial 1921; pupils at Holt Infants' School
1921 and Holt Council School 1928, both including Archie Checkley
; opening of new British Legion houses 1929; the R101 over
Holt 1929; Queen Mary's visit to Kelling Sanatorium 1934; Holt
Senior School football team 1935-1936; High Kelling Post Office
and Stores 1937; dedication of St John's Ambulance Brigade
ambulance 1938; victory parade 1946; Regal Cinema staff c 1952;
coronation celebrations 1953; Remembrance Day service 1953;
presentation of equipment to St John's Ambulance Brigade, Holt
Division 1980; Checkley collection of
Holt crested china 1988. |
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| Repository |
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| Title |
| Scrapbook of press cuttings and
miscellaneous material relating to Holt. |
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| Date |
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| Description |
| Includes advertising material and paper
bags re Holt shops, nd [early 19th century]-1980s; photocopy of
settlement certificate of Mary Long of Holt, 1808; posters
advertising coronation and jubilee celebrations, 1838-1937, and
Holt Peace Festival, 1856; engraving of Holt Heath from drawing by
Cotman (printed), engravings of Methodist Church and Gresham's
Grammar School (printed), nd [mid 19th century]; sale particular
for 2 houses, butcher's shop and cottage at Holt, 1886; programme
for Holt Jubilee Festival with presidents' instructions, 1887;
tradesmen's bills, 1910s-1950; photographs of Arthur Checkley
from a baby to his marriage, 1910s-1930s; press cuttings
(including re collision of R.A.F. aeroplanes over Holt, 1968),
1913-1970s; The Gresham school magazine, 1 April 1916; order of
service for dedication of Holt war memorial, 1921; sketch of mill
on Cley Road, Holt, by Francis King, 1922; 6 inch: 1 mile Ordnance
Survey map of Holt (Norfolk Sheet X S.W.), 1929; booklet, The
Children's Sanatorium for the Treatment of Phthisis near Holt,
Norfolk, c 1930; speech notes of Holt Parish Council chairman on
the opening of the Holt Post Office, 1934; St John's Ambulance
Brigade (Holt Division) annual reports, 1934, 1935, 1937 and
papers re fundraising to buy ambulance, 1937-1938; poster re
funeral of George V, 1936; Regal Cinema programmes, including for
opening night, 1937, 1950-1958; bus and train timetables and
tickets, 1943-1982 and nd; Holt Street map, 1965; sale particulars
7, 9 and 11 High Street, 1966; programme for opening of Holt
Primary School Swimming Pool, 1968; Holt carnival programme, 1975.
(Items missing when scrapbook was received by Norfolk Record
Office: 6 on page re Holt cinema, 1 on page containing ship letter
telegram, 1 on page containing bill from Shipp, cycle and wireless
stores, 1 on page containing Balls wet fish shop notice, 1 Checkley
family photograph.) |
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