IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0372 BROOKFIELD MANOR
Held at: Bishopsgate Institute
Title: Brookfield Manor Girls' Club
Date(s): c1945-2009
Level of description: Collection
Extent: 3 files
Name of creator(s): Brookfield Manor Girls' Club
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
The Brookfield Manor Girls’ Club was founded in 1942 and consisted mainly of girlfriends and sisters of members of the Eton Manor Boys’ Club in Hackney Wick. It initially met in the Eton Manor clubhouse, before moving to other venues in Hackney Wick and Leyton. In the early years, Netball matches were often played on the Eton Manor playing fields known as “the Wilderness” on Hackney Marshes. As with the Eton Manor club, to which it retained links until Eton Manor’s closure, many of the Brookfield Manor members kept close associations to the club and their fellow-members. Brookfield Manor closed in 1991 due to a declining membership.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Oral histories, documents, correspondence, photographs, and artefacts relating to Brookfield Manor Girls' Club.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English
System of arrangement:
BROOKFIELD MANOR/1-3
Conditions governing access:
APPLY TO ARCHIVIST
Conditions governing reproduction:
Photocopying and digital photography (without flash) is permitted for research purposes on completion of the Library's Copyright Declaration form and with respect to current UK copyright law.
Finding aids:
Copy of handlist available in Library Reading Room.
ARCHIVAL INFORMATION
Archival history:
Immediate source of acquisition:
Brookfield Manor Girls' Club
ALLIED MATERIALS
DESCRIPTION NOTES
Date(s) of descriptions: January 2009