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Diana Rait Kerr interviewed by David Rayvern Allen



Reference
MCC/AAL/3/2
Date:
2005-09-12
Level of description
item
Extent
1 CD: 17 minutes 57 seconds
Part of
David Rayvern Allen Audio Archive (MCC/AAL/3)
Scope and Content
CD, Diana Rait Kerr, MCC Curator, interviewed by David Rayvern Allen. The CD consists of 4 tracks.

Track 1: [0:49-2:05] Rait Kerr talks about her appointment as Curator of MCC, [2:09-2:29] Rait Kerr talks about the storage of books held by MCC during the Second World War, [2:29-3:14] Rait Kerr talks about the size of the collection in 1945, [3:15-4:57], Rait Kerr talks about her job as an ambulance driver during the Second World War.

Track 2: [0:00-0:17] Rait Kerr continues discussing her job as an ambulance driver, [0:17-1:27] Rait Kerr talks about the establishment of the library in the Pavilion (now the Member's Bar), [1:27-2:10] Rait Kerr talks about the establishment of the cataloguing system, [2:10-3:05] Rait Kerr talks about T H Carlton Levick, [3:15-5:24] Rait Kerr talks about the people she worked with.

Track 3: [0:00-2:45] Rait Kerr talks about her book on the Lord's catalogue, Leslie Gutteridge and the increase in the collections, [2:46-4:18] Rait Kerr talks about the opening of the Imperial Memorial Gallery.

Track 4: [0:00-0:49] Rait Kerr talks about her opinion of the MCC museum and library (in 2005), [0:50-2:00], Rait Kerr talks about Stephen Green's appointment as MCC Curator and the present MCC Curator, Adam Chadwick, [2:00-2:30] Allen talks about unusual bequests to the MCC museum.

A back-up copy of this CD is included.
Associations
Diana Mary Rait Kerr
Thomas Henry Carlton Levick
David Rayvern Allen
Adam Chadwick
Stephen Edgar Alexander Green
Leslie Gutteridge
Subject
Marylebone Cricket Club Library, Marylebone Cricket Club Museum, World War, 1939-1945
Conditions governing access
Open
Language
English
Size
1 CD: 17 minutes 57 seconds
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