Authority from the Board of Agriculture to Magdalene College to purchase 18-20 Magdalene Street.
Abstract of the title of the trustees for the sale under the will of the late James M. Foster to a freehold estate in Magdalene Street called the Cross Keys and Old Cross Keys Estates.
Sale prospectus for property to be sold at auction at the Bull Inn, Trumpington Street. Includes lots relating to the Cross Keys Inn and estate including plans showing the size and types of property and names of tenants.
Parties: (1) Charles Finch Foster and George Ebenezer Foster to (2) Robert Peters
Conveyance of three Messuages in Old Cross Keys Yard in the parish of St Peter
Authority from the Board of Agriculture to Magdalene College to purchase Nos. 1,2 and 3 Cross Keys Yard.
Parties: (1) Thomas Nutter (merchant), (2) John Nicholson (book seller) and Mary Nicholson
Mortgage for securing £2000 and interest
Will of Thomas Nutter in which he left the Pickerel estate [described in detail] to his two sons John and Robert Nutter.
Parties: (1) Thomas Wood (musician) and Catherine his wife, (2) Thomas Hallack (grocer)
Parties: (1) John Cross (merchant), Robert Sparrow (merchant), and John Nutter
(2) Ebenezer Foster (gentleman), Augustine Gutteridge Brimley (grocer), John Garrett (farmer), William Warren (grocer)
Release and conveyance of a freehold messuage in Fisher's Lane
Parties: (1) Ambrose Humphreys (at the direction of the Revd Samuel Lowe), (2) Ebenezer Foster (in trust for Richard Foster)
Assignment of a term of 1000 years to attend the inheritance relating to the Cross Keys Inn, yard, stables, and outhouses.
Abstract of the title of William Kidman Bird to a freehold estate in Magdalene Street called the Cross Keys and the Old Cross Keys estate.
A manuscript underneath reads "Mr Brown to peruse and advise on behalf of an intended mortgage".
Poor Rate and General District Rate sent to Mr W.K. Bird (premises in Magdalene Street) and receipt for payment.
Two letters relating to 15 Magdalene Street:
(1) Letter from Talbot Peel [front page is missing so is unaddressed and undated] concerning security of tenure requested by Warrington and Sons for the house at No. 15 and the old Tan Yard and buildings,
(2) Letter from J. Carter Jonas and Sons to Talbot Peel, 23 June 1923 informing him that Storey's Charity planned to sell at auction 15 and 16 Magdalene Street with a large yard and buildings (formerly the old Tan Yard, approached from Northampton Street) and 6 cottages and gardens known as Tan Yard Cottages.
Parties: (1) Francis Parsons (farmer) and Frank Waters (architect) (2) Magdalene College
Assignment of three leasehold messuages in Thompson's Lane known as the Nurses Hostel.
Fire policy taken out for £500 with Scottish Alliance Insurance Company by Arnold Ernest Flitton on 29 Magdalene Street [printed header].
The Boat Club's accounts with the boat builders F. Pockock, 1910-1919 and with H. C. Banham, 1919-1935.
Menus for the May Bumps Suppers. All include a printed list of crews and many are signed.:
1922, 1929
1932, 1938, 1939
1947
1956, 1957
1960, 1961, 1962, 1963, 1964, 1965, 1968, 1969
1970, 1971, 1973, 1974, 1975, 1977
1983 (2 copies, one with ribbon)
2008, 2011, 2016
Menus for the Lent Bumps Suppers. All include a printed list of crews and many are signed:
1920 [not specified as Lent Races but held on 28 Feb]
1923 [ 2 copies, not specified as Lent Races but held on 17 Feb]
1929
1932, 1938, 1939
1958
1961, 1964, 1966-69
1970, 1972, 1973, 1979
1981, 1983
2016
Inserted loose is a printed sheet of the rules of the Amalgamation Club which also sets out the colours for each club.
Printed annual balance sheets for the Amalgamation Club, 1890 - 1907 [missing 1902], 1913-14, 1918-19, 1919-20. Also hand written statement of receipts and expenses in connection with the new ground from the date of purchase up to 23 September 1911 and a list of subscriptions gathered giving name and amount.
Printed rules of the Amalgamation Club with the headings:
I. The Finance Committee
II. Subscriptions
III. Club Accounts
With these are the printed rules of the Undergraduates' Kitchen Committee which consisted of six members two from each year to be elected by the whole College. In manuscript at the top of the page is written "Committee 1911-12 C. E. Kindersley, F. Ritson, A. E. Collier, B. Tinker".
Contains minutes of committee meetings and results.
Black and white photograph of members of Spider Club having dinner.
The men in the photograph are [from left to right]:
Arthur Kingsland, Colin Methven, Prince Mario Colonna [standing], John 'Jackie' Davis, Alfred Fabian de Ledesma, George Walker.
Ledesma is the only one not in a dinner jacket but is instead dressed ready to take his horse box containing his mare 'Chiquita' on the night train to London Kings Cross. He then went across London to the Great West Road and rode mostly cross country to Poyntington, Sherbourne, Dorset, a distance of 150 miles which took him one week [this is according to notes made by Ledesma]
Menu,18 November 1911
Menu, 1931