FROST, Harold (1892-1975), scrapbooks

Identity Statement

Reference code(s)	: GB 0096 MS1005
Held at	: Senate House Library, University of London   Click here to find out how to view this collection at http://www.senatehouselibrary.ac.uk/our-collections ›
Full title	: FROST, Harold (1892-1975), scrapbooks
Date(s)	: 1928-1967
Level of description	: Fonds
Extent	: 4 volumes
Name of creator(s)	: Frost | Harold | 1892-1975 | verger and psychic researcher
Detailed catalogue	: Click here to view repository detailed catalogue

Context

Administrative/Biographical history:

Harold Frost, psychic researcher and verger, was born in Colchester, Essex, in 1895; during the First World War, he served with the Inns of Court Officer Training Corps, before being gazetted to the 7th Suffolk Regiment and serving at the Somme, France and in Belgium; during the 1920s and 1930s, Frost became interested in psychic research and investigated and worked with various medium circles in Essex and other areas; medical clerk to the Chairman of Colchester Medical Board of the Ministry of Labour, 1939, later being transferred to Ministry of Food Headquarters Office, Colwyn Bay for licensing of firms in animal feeding stuffs; transferred to Chelmsford Essex Divisional Food Office as Salvage Officer for Essex and Hertfordshire areas, 1942, and once again to the Ministry of Supply, carrying out testing at Springfield Uranium Factory, Lancashire; moved to Dacca, East Pakistan and worked as a General Manager of Zeenat Printing Works and in public relations, 1955-1961; returned to England in 1962, joining the Sue Ryder organisation and carried out general duties and nursing; served as a verger in Banbury from the 1960s to his death in 1975.

Content

Scope and content/abstract:

Consists of 4 hard-bound scrapbooks with some handwritten notes and typescript notes of sittings with mediums of various circles, for example Mark's Tey circle in Essex, 1928-1967. Some letters and press cuttings are enclosed.

Access & Use

Language/scripts of material:
English

System of arrangement:

Srapbooks are numbered in date order.

Conditions governing access:

Open for research.

Conditions governing reproduction:

Copies may be made, subject to the condition of the original. Copying must be undertaken by the Palaeography Room staff, who will need a minimum of 24 hours to process requests.

Finding aids:

A full catalogue of this deposit is available on the ULRLS on-line archives catalogue, http://archives.ulrls.lon.ac.uk. A hard-copy version is also available in the Special Collections Room, Senate House Library.

Archival Information

Archival history:

Found in Harry Price Library.

Immediate source of acquisition:

Transferred from Harry Price Library, Senate House Library.

Allied Materials

Related material:

See Harry Price (1881-1948) archive (ref. HP) for contemporary papers and letters about investigating mediums, held at the Senate House Library. Senate House Library also holds photographs of Harold Frost, c1914-1970 (MS1013).

Publication note:

Description Notes

Archivist's note:
Entry compiled by Richard Temple.

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:
Richard Temple, 2006-08-24