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Glengyle Preparatory School


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0347 S6

Held at: Wandsworth Heritage Service

Title: Glengyle Preparatory School

Date(s): 1938-1986

Level of description: Collection

Extent: 2 boxes, 1 album, loose photographs

Name of creator(s): Please contact the Archive for further information.

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

The Glengyle Preparatory School for Boys was founded in 1907 by Leonard Augustine Chope. It was originally in Cambalt Road before moving to 4, Carlton Drive in 1914. Walter Vivian Wallace was appointed as Assistant School Master in 1938 before purchasing the lease from Mr Chope and becoming the proprietor/headmaster of the school. He purchased the freehold of the property in Carlton Drive in 1960. His wife Winifred taught at the school and took over its running following the death of her husband in 1981. Mrs Wallace retired in 1986 and the school was sold. It is now the Merlin School.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

The collection is made up of papers belonging to the second headmaster of the school W.V. Wallace and his wife who also taught at the school. The papers include correspondence with the parents, a visitors book, exercise books and other material produced by the students, school newsletters and magazine, as well as papers and letters relating to the closure of the school in 1986. There is also a significant amount of photographs from the 1960s onwards showing various school events such as sports days, concerts, plays and other events.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

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Conditions governing access:

This material is only available in the Wandsworth Heritage Service search room at Battersea Library. Please contact Heritage Service staff for more information.

Conditions governing reproduction:

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Finding aids:

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Detailed catalogue

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

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ALLIED MATERIALS

DESCRIPTION NOTES

Archivist's note:

Finding aid created by export from CALM v8.0.2.40 Archives Hub EAD2002. Entry edited by Barbara Ball

Rules or conventions: General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal Place and Corporate Names 1997.

Date(s) of descriptions: Aptil 2011


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