MCGUIRE FAMILY
Identity Statement
Reference code(s) | : GB 0074 ACC/2318 |
Held at | : London Metropolitan Archives Click here to find out how to view this collection at https://www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/lma › |
Full title | : MCGUIRE FAMILY |
Date(s) | : 1903-1986 |
Level of description | : Collection |
Extent | : 0.15 linear metres. |
Name of creator(s) | : McGuire | John Charles | 1890-1986 | schoolmaster |
Context
Administrative/Biographical history:
John Charles McGuire (1890-1986) spent most of his lifetime in a career as a schoolmaster in London. He was educated at East London Technical College and trained as a teacher at Islington Day Training College (1908-1912). Most of his teaching career was spent at Barnsbury Central School where he later became Head Teacher. In 1950 he was President of the London Head Teachers' Association. He retired in 1954 after 45 years of employment by the LCC Education Officer's Department.
For a history of the Barnsbury Central School see 'Islington: Education', A History of the County of Middlesex: Volume 8: Islington and Stoke Newington parishes (1985), pp. 117-135 (available online).
Content
Scope and content/abstract:
Personal papers of John Charles McGuire, schoolmaster. The records illustrate his career and the photographs in the collection relate to his school and its wartime evacuation to Newport Pagnell, Bucks (1939-1941).
Access & Use
Language/scripts of material:
English
System of arrangement:
ACC/2318-1-1: Formal documents;
ACC/2318-1-2: Education documents;
ACC/2318-1-3: Professional documents;
ACC/2318-1-4: Photographs;
ACC/2318-1-5 and 6: Barnsbury Central School photographs;
ACC/2318-1-7: Evacuation during WWII.
Conditions governing access:
Available for general access.
Conditions governing reproduction:
Copyright to this collection rests with the City of London.
Finding aids:
Please see online catalogues at: http://search.lma.gov.uk/opac_lma/index.htm
Archival Information
Archival history:
Immediate source of acquisition:
Gifted to the Archive in two donations, on 16th September 1986 and 16th June 1987.
Allied Materials
Related material:
Publication note:
Description Notes
Archivist's note:
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:
Records prepared May to September 2011.
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