Betty Archdale Scrapbooks

Reference

ARCHDALE

Date:

1934-06-08 - 1935-04-05

Level of description

fonds

Extent

3 volumes

Scope and Content

Scrapbooks include maps, newspaper cuttings, telegrams, photographs, correspondence, itineraries, dinner menus, pamphlets, train tickets, programmes, memoranda, membership cards, spider diagrams, magazines, programmes for horse racing meetings at the Freemantle Trotting Club in Richmond Park, pamphlets on Wanganella Estate in New South Wales, copy of J C Williamson Ltd (film company) magazine programme for the performance of 'Blue Mountain Melody' at the King's Theatre, copy of Where and How tourists magazine, copy of The Native Bear Book Australia, tourist brochure for Toowoomba, Queensland, copy of the rules of Vigoro and the 1931 Toowoomba Vigoro team, tourist guide to New South Wales.

Associations

Helen Elizabeth Archdale

Subject

England Women in Australia 1934-1935, England Women in New Zealand 1934-1935, women's cricket, Vigoro

Institution name

Marylebone Cricket Club

Conditions governing access

Open

Language

English, 6574, , , , , , , , ,

Size

3 volumes

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Donated to MCC by Colin Munro, August 2014. The gift was in accordance with Betty Archdale's will where she stated that they were to be given to Lord's Cricket Ground. The will was discovered three years ago; the scrapbooks were previously held at the Bradman Museum in Bowral, New South Wales, Australia. Colin Munro is the is grandson of Barbara Peden, Australian Women Test cricketer.