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1 volume, photographic prints
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At the front of the album is a photograph of the memorial tablet to George Horton (Butler)
Photographs 1-12 are from Mrs Ruck's (grand daughter of Latimer Neville) collection:
(1a) Latimer Neville (Master 1853-1904), from a negative given by his grand daughter Mrs Ruck in 1977
(1b) St Mary Magdalene Statue, 1876
(2) The College from Quayside, showing Watergate on the left as reconstructed by Penrose
(3) The College from Magdalene Bridge, c. 1880-95
(4) Magdalene Street, c. 1880-95
(5) First Court, showing the statue c.1880-95
(6) Chapel, c. 1880-95
(7) Pepys Building, 1880-95
Photographs 8-12 were taken c. 1875 before the Magdalene Statue (1876) but after the restoration of the West range (1875):
(8) Fellows' Garden
(9) Master's Garden
(10) Master's Garden in winter
(11) Master's Lodge
(12) Master's Lodge
(13) Ven. A. T. Wirgman (matriculated in 1866)
Photographs 14-16 are from C. Lumby's scrapbook given by Mr B. False in 1971
(14) Rugby XV, 1907
(15) May Boat, 1909
(16) Rugby XV, Lent 1910
(17) Eights
(18a) F.R. Salter's tea-party, 1911:
P.G. Knappett (1907) - F. R. Salter (1910) - M.A. Hepburn (1908) - W.H.F. Maule
[Given by Mr Maule in 1973. Although this is marked 'Fellows' Garden, Magdalene College' (and this was confirmed both by Mr Maule & Sir Owen Morshead) this is not wholly convincing. A possible alternative location might be between Merton Hall and Merton Cottage, where F.R. Salter had a tenancy at one time (See Benson Diary, 170/43, 23 May 1923:
"Went round to Salter's nice little house, Merton Cottage .... a beautiful and secluded garden ": but also OMP/IV/3 (Morshead Papers)
(18b) Bowls in Second Court (Francis Turner)
(19) College photograph, May 1925
Fellows in front row, from left: Turner (3), Morshead (5), Salter (7), Ramsey (9), Benson (11), Peel (13), Nuttall (15), Clark (17).
A.M. Ramsey is in the 2nd row from top, 2nd from the right
(20) May Ball, June 1911 - the first May Ball [2 copies, one is loose]
(21) A.C. Benson, 1923 (autographed)
(22) College photograph, c. 1926-27
Fellows in the front row from the left: Turner (3), Salter (9), Vernon-Jones (11), Piccoli (15), Richards (17). The Master (A.B. Ramsey) is No. 13.
(23) Magdalene & Selwyn VIIIs (c. 1909)
(24) Magdalene VIII, 1910
(25) First Court, early 20th century
(26) Hall, early 20th century
Photographs 27-38 were taken for Country Life Magazine in 1928
(27) Pepys Building - back
(28) Pepys Building - front
(29) Pepys Building - view from left Cloister
(30) Pepys Library - interior (SE Wing)
(31) Pepys Library - bindings by Samuel Mearne
(32) Main Gate
(33) Entrance to Screens from First Court
(34) Gateway between Fellows' & Master's Gardens
(35) Exit from Fellows' & Master's Gardens showing revolving spikes (removed in mid-1960s)
(36) Old inner room of Library (now the Parlour). The large volumes in the foreground are Royal Commission Publications (sold 1979)
(37) Large Combination Room
(38) Small Combination Room (then Fellows' Guest Room)
(39) Staff, c. 1940-45
C.E. Plumb (back row, 3rd from the right) was a porter for 51 years
'Horace' (back row, 4th from the right) had an obituary in the College Magazine No. 4 (1959-60) pp. 14-16
Mrs Blows (front row, No. 17), bedmaker of Mallory Court 4, is referred to in the autobiography of the last Kabaka of Buganda (E.F. Mutesa) as "the woman who came in to make my bed, selected doubtless for her advanced years and unbecoming countenance, as all female college servants seemed to be...." (Desecration of my Kingdom, 1967, p. 94)
L.W. Brown (2nd row from the top, far right) was a clerk in the College Office for 47 years, and Chief Clerk from 1954 to1976; he became a Member of the College, and a Minister in the United Reformed Church.
The following Fellows appear:
2nd row from the front: Peel (1), Vernon-Jones (11)
3rd row: Keilin (9)
4th row: Turner (3), Scott (4), Salter (5), Bennett (6), Saunders (7)
The Master (A.B. Ramsay) is 9th in the 2nd row from the front and Miss Ramsay is 9th in the front row.
(40a) Prof. Alfred Newton
(40b) F.R.F. Scott (Senior Tutor)
(41) Cardington balloon drifts down into Benson Court, October 1965
(42) Opening of the Benson Diary crate in the Master's Lodge, 17 June 1975:
From left to right: R:R.F. Bennett, L.W. Brown, R.C. Martineau, J.F. Burnet, D.W. Babbage, D. Strachan, W. Hamilton, I.A. Richards, T.E.B. Howarth
(43) Senior Combination Room, 1979
(44a) Ramsay Hall, 1979
(44b) Altar-piece in Parlour
(45a) Chapel, 1979
(45b) JCR, 1979
(46) Reconstruction of Greenhouse, June 1979
(47) Reconstruction of Greenhouse, June 1979
(48 and 49) Benson Diary display in Heffers for publication of Newsome, D. On the Edge of Paradise, June 1980
(50) Photograph of the portrait of the Visitor, 9th Lord Braybrooke by David Poole at Audley End, 1980
(51) The Revd C.J.F. Scott, Chaplain
(52) David Strachan, carpenter (1971-78)
(53) Tom Meekins, butler (1953-77)
(54) L.W. Brown, College Chief Clerk 1954-9, College Secretary 1959-76
(55) Staff, 1979
(56) Mr Salter as Proctor
(57) Dr Saunders as Senior Proctor with S.E. Dunn (Gyp) on the left (by M.E. Murrell, 1 August 1945)
(58) Fellows Garden (c. 1951) (S. Willink)
(59) Accident at 13 Magdalene Street c. 1952-53 (presented by Dr I.M. Jessiman, 2003)