Stephen Green interviewed by David Rayvern Allen

Reference

MCC/AAL/3/178

Date:

2005

Level of description

item

Extent

1 CD: 50 minutes 38 seconds

Part of

David Rayvern Allen Audio Archive (MCC/AAL/3)

Scope and Content

1 CD, Stephen Green, former curator of MCC, interviewed by David Rayvern Allen. The CD consists of 10 tracks.

Track 1: [0:00-0:22] Introduction by Rayvern Allen, [0:23-1:06] Green talks about being born on the Isle of Wight and the Isle of Wight Cricket Club, [1:07-1:46] Green talks about watching D-Day, [1:47-2:46] Green talks about his parents, [2:47-4:15] Green talks about his school days and former pupils, [4:16-4:43] Green talks about the cricket field at Monkton Combe School.

Track 2: [0:00-0:53] Green talks about watching the 1953 Ashes series and watching Hampshire in 1954, [0:54-1:15] Green talks about never foreseeing a career in cricket, [1:16-2:08] Green talks about a pursuing a career in archives at Liverpool University, [2:09-2:48] Green talks about Diana Rait Kerr's cataloguing system, [2:49-3:53] Green talks about attending Brasenose College at Oxford University, [3:54-4:54] Green talks about working at Northamptonshire Record Office and not meeting Jim Coldham whilst there [4:55-5:02] Green talks about seeing an advertisement for the position of MCC Curator.

Track 3: [0:00-2:04] Green talks about the interview process to be MCC Curator, [2:05-2:46] Green talks about briefly overlapping with Diana Rait Kerr at Lord's, [2:47-4:18] Green talks about arriving at Lord's during the D'Oliveira affair and student protests, [4:19-5:27] Green talks about having 2 assistants.

Track 4: [0:00-0:59] Green talks about his initial impression of Lord's, [1:00-1:18] Green talks about not knowing Neville Cardus, [1:19-2:28] Green talks about Green talks about Lord's being like a feudal village when he started and club etiquette, [2:29-3:46] Green talks about John Stephenson encouraging staff to smile each other and bringing a change to the club environment, [3:47-4:51] Green talks about not knowing how many staff there were during his time at the club.

Track 5: [0:00-0:15] Green talks about his vision for the library and museum and continuing Diana Rait Kerr's work, [0:16-1:00] Green talks about the 1987 MCC bicentenary as a turning point for museum and library, [1:01-3:05] Green talks about the bicentenary auction, [3:06-3:47] Green talks about the selling of collections, [3:48-5:58] Green talks about relaxed MCC Chairmen.

Track 6: [0:00-1:25] Green talks about collections entering the library during his career including a book on the first Lord's Cricket Ground, buying the Laws on Lawn Tennis and the account book of William Ward, [1:26-2:14] Green talks about Oliver Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes donating his family papers, [2:15-3:10] Green talks about purchasing and commissioning artworks, [3:11-5:10] Green talks about the Coleman forgeries.

Track 7: [0:00-1:24] Green talks about the Colman forgeries and rescuing the club's scorebooks and minute books from storm damage in pavilion basement, [1:25-2:09] Green talks about the club's attempt to purchase a Lowry painting, [2:10-5:15] Green talks about the Ashes urn including its restoration, and travel to Australia for the bicentenary match and used in a Victoria and Albert Museum exhibition.

Track 8: [0:00-3:15] Green talks about the Ashes urn story, [3:16-3:48] Green talks about his favourite item being a painting of cricket c.1790, [3:49-4:14] Green talks about purchasing a Chinese vase with Hayman's picture of Cricket in Marylebone Fields.

Track 9: [0:00-2:40] Green continues to talk about purchasing a Chinese vase with Hayman's picture of Cricket in Marylebone Fields on it, [2:41-4:53] Green talks about purchasing the portrait of the Earl of Winchelsea.

Track 10: [0:00-0:59] Green continues to talk about purchasing the portrait of the Earl of Winchelsea, [1:00-2:33] Green talks about a painting of Lord Frederick Beauclerk, [2:34-2:54] Green talks about a Lanseer painting that went missing, [2:55-3:44] Green talks about what he would like his legacy to be, [3:45-5:37] Green talks about his hopes for a purpose built museum and accessible library, [5:38-5:55] Closing remarks.


A back-up copy of this CD is included.

Associations

Stephen Edgar Alexander Green
David Rayvern Allen
Isle of Wight Cricket Club
Keith Vincent Andrew
Monkton Combe School
Diana Mary Rait Kerr
Jim Coldham
Edward Desmond Russell Eagar
Sir Oliver William Hargreaves Leese
Lieutenant Colonel John Robin Stephenson
Charles Clive-Ponsonby-Fane
William Ward
Oliver William Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes

Subject

school cricket, Australia in England 1953, D'Oliveira affair, Eton vs Harrow, bicentenary event 1987, Bicentenary auction, MCC Chairman, MCC presidents, MCC Museum, Library, Colman collection, Ashes urn

Conditions governing access

Open

Language

English

Size

1 CD: 50 minutes 38 seconds

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