| Description | Various notes and other items collected during the course of Alderman Brotherton's research, comprising:
1 - Letter dated 1963 from John Bolton concerning John Longmore, Mayor of Worcester 1874 - 1875 and describing some of the research he had undertaken into Longmore's later life.
2 - Handwritten notes by Brotherton about the life of William Shaw, Mayor of Worcester in 1822.
3 - Handwritten notes, letters and copies of extracts of documents concerning Thomas Street, Town Clerk and Mayor in the seventeenth century, and his father Francis Street, also Town Clerk. Dates from the 1950s and 1960s.
4 - Newspaper clippings from the Worcester 'Evening News and Times' dated 1938 concerning the death of Sidney Creese, the City Chamberlain who was found dead in a train carriage in London, the inquest and funeral.
5 - Various documents about F .W. Grainger and the Magistracy in Worcester including a printed copy of 'Procedure before Magistrates' dated 1885; photograph of Frank Grainger's gravestone in Canada, dated 1946; letters from the 1880s concerning Grainger becoming a Magistrate; Epitome of some of the Statutes passed in the [1887 session] affecting the Duties of Magistrates, with some doodling; minutes of a special meeting of the Council, 1887; travel document issued by the Foreign Office to Frank Grainger, requesting he be allowed to travel freely abroad, an early passport style document dated 1889; letter from Mrs Grainger in Canada dated 1963, with special edition 50th Jubilee envelope of the Calgary Exhibition & Stampede (Jubilee year was 1962); pamphlet 'The Magistracy of the City of Worcester and County of the Same City, with Notes of Special Sessions, and Tables of Attendances at Petty Sessions' dated 1901.
6 - Letters and notes about the Lord Lieutenants of Worcester, most from Birmingham Reference Library, dated 1958.
7 - Handwritten notes and some letters concerning the Recorders of Worcester from the fifteenth to nineteenth centuries.
8 - Handwritten notes, black and white photographs and letters regarding ceremonial items and insignia, such as the Coat of Arms, Cap of Liberty, William Gordon Silver Cup and the Civic Dinner.
9 - Newspaper clippings, mostly from the Worcester 'News & Times' and letters from the public in response to Alderman Brotherton's enquiries concerning the Lord Mayor's Coach, dated 1959.
10 - Lord Lieutenants, with particular emphasis on the Coventry family members who held that office. Includes handwritten notes, various letters from London archives and museums mostly referring to Brotherton's attempts to locate records and includes a readers ticket and regulations for the Public Record Office, newspaper clipping and an invitation to the opening of St Helen's Record Office, Worcester. Dated late 1950s. |