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STACEY, Joseph (fl 1938-1975)


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 1753 STA

Held at: University of Westminster

Title: STACEY, Joseph (fl 1938-1975)

Date(s): 1938-1975

Level of description: Collection (fonds)

Extent: 1 file

Name of creator(s): Henry | Leslie | fl 1938-1975 | hairdresser

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

Stacey was appointed to be chief instructor at the Regent Street Polytechnic School of Hairdressing in 1939, having previously been in charge of the hairdressing department at Harrods. Leslie Henry was a pupil at the School from 1938-41. He later became head of hairdressing at Brighton Technical College.

Hairdressing was one of four trade and technical schools at the Polytechnic which were amalgamated in 1929 to become the Craft Schools. They provided general education and specialist trade instruction for boys from 14-17. The Schools also had large evening departments. There were usually about 350 day boys, and in September 1939 about half that number were evacuated to the village of Winscombe in Somerset. A garage was converted into a ladies hairdressing saloon. In 1942, Hairdressing was one of two Schools allowed to make an early return to London. Changes after the War, including the implementation of the 1944 Education Act, meant that the Craft Schools were unable to continue as before, and in 1952 the London County Council moved the Senior School of Hairdressing to Barrett Street Technical College (one of the predecessor bodies of London College of Fashion).

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

The collection was assembled and annotated by Leslie Henry. The items mostly relate to Joseph Stacey, but a few concern Henry. The largest group is of photographs, with a few cuttings, relating to the evacuation of Regent Street Polytechnic School of Hairdressing to Winscombe in Somerset from 1939-1942; a few letters, photographs and cuttings relating to the careers of Stacey and Henry, 1938-1975.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

The papers are unsorted.

Conditions governing access:

Open, subject to signing the regulations for access form.

Conditions governing reproduction:

Copies may be supplied, for research use only, unless copyright restrictions apply or the item is too fragile to be copied. Requests to publish original material should be addressed to the University Archivist.

Physical characteristics:

Finding aids:

The papers are uncatalogued.

Detailed catalogue

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

Appraisal, destruction and scheduling information:

Accruals:

Archival history:

The papers were given by Leslie Henry to the London College of Fashion.

Immediate source of acquisition:

Transferred from London College of Fashion to University of Westminster Archives, August 2002

ALLIED MATERIALS

Existence and location of originals:

Existence and location of copies:

Related material:

Records of Regent Street Polytechnic, 1891-1970 (Reference: UWA RSP) are held by the University of Westminster Archives.

Records of Barrett Street Technical College, [1904]-1966, are held by the London College of Fashion.

Publication note:

DESCRIPTION NOTES

Note:

Archivist's note: Compiled by Julie Tancell as part of the RSLP AIM25 project.

Rules or conventions: Compiled in compliance with 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: July 2002; revised October 2002


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Hairdressing | Hygiene | Health
Photographs | Visual materials
Vocational training | Training
Students
Vocational education

Personal names
Henry | Leslie | fl 1938-1975 | hairdresser
Stacey | Joseph | fl 1938-1975 | hairdresser

Corporate names
Brighton Technical College
Polytechnic Institute | Regent Street x Regent Street Polytechnic

Places
Brighton | Sussex | England | UK | Western Europe | Europe
Regent Street (north) | St Marylebone | London | England | UK | Western Europe | Europe
East Sussex