STACEY, Joseph (fl 1938-1975)

Identity Statement

Reference code(s)	: GB 1753 STA
Held at	: University of Westminster   Click here to find out how to view this collection at https://westminster-atom.arkivum.net/index.php/ ›
Full 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
Detailed catalogue	: Click here to view repository detailed catalogue

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 & 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.

Finding aids:

The papers are uncatalogued.

Archival Information

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

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

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