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Winston Churchill and the Wimbornes by Ted Ward

BX55-02

Article (8 pages) from The Dorset Year Book about Winston Churchill's relationship with theGuests and with Canford. Includes an account of his fall at Branksome. Also includes cutting from Bournemouth Echo about this (1989)

Letters concerning Winston Churchill

BX55-03

5 letters (photocopies of pages from unknown book), including one from Wintston to his mother. Reference to Guests and to visiting Canford.

Sir Charles Barry's Canford Magna by MS Titman

BX55-04

40 page thesis presented to Thames Polytechnic. Interesting account / analysis Blore's and Barry's attempts at neo-Gothic. Titman also traces interestingly the influence that Barry's design of the Houses of Parliament had on his approach to incorporating John of Gaunt's into his re-design of Canford. Lady Charlotte's demands are also well documented. Includes ground plan of Blore's building

One page biography of Lady Charlotte Guest

BX55-05

Local file of Merthyr Tidfil Libraries Photopy provided by Merthyr Tydfil Library

Lady Charlotte Schreiber / GuestÆs Will

BX55-06

Photopy provided by Merthyr Tydfil Library

Lady Charlotte Guest: Victorian Businesswoman by David Jones

BX55-08

Subtitled æThe life of the translator of the MabinogionÆ (Source of article / chapter unknown) Photopies provided by Merthyr Tydfil Library

Newspaper articles about Lady Charlotte Guest

BX55-09

Guests of Dowlais by Elizabeth Hubbard (source unknown)The Pig-iron Lady (Review of Revel GuestÆs book by Kate Saunders in the Independent û 1989)One Woman Who Shaped a Port by John Williams, The Wester Mail, 1/9/2001 Photopies provided by Merthyr Tydvil Library

Ivor Guest, 1st Lord Wimborne

BX55-10

Article by Roger Guttridge in Bournemouth Echo (1.2.1989) subtitled "How a nouveau riche landowner came to dominate Poole society"

Enid Guest Daughter of an Ironmaster

BX55-01

By Mary Owen Obtained by Stephen Jones from Methyr Tydfil Library "I happened to be in Merthyr Tydfil Central Library yesterday and I noticed a new book, or rather a book new to me; 'Enid Guest: Daughter of an Ironmaster' by Mary Owen (published by Merthyr Tydfil CBC in 2009)."

The Shell Big Survival Guide

BX54-63

A5 booklet outlniing Shell life with space for each pupil to fill in individual choices and thoughts

Dress regulations

BX54-64

Dated and signed by pupil and housemaster (Strain)Also includes two blank stationery forms for the School Shop Donated by Peter Montagu-Williams (SH50)

List of tutors

BX54-65

Small card listing the ten Houses with their hsm, graddies, tutors and contact number. Given out to all staff for easy reference