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Photograph taken for Picture Post magazine of WSC tiling Orchard Cottage, which was being built at Chartwell [Kent]. The photograph is taken from the side, and shows WSC kneeling on the roof where tiles are being laid, with someone just out of shot leaning over his shoulder to hand him something. With his other hand, WSC is just taking his cigar out of his mouth. He is wearing a heavy overcoat and a light coloured homburg hat.

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Photograph taken for Picture Post magazine of the front of Orchard Cottage, which was being built at Chartwell [Kent]. WSC and two other men are on the roof laying tiles, WSC wearing a heavy overcoat and a light coloured homburg hat, while there are several ladders propped against the cottage, and a wheelbarrow full of bricks in the foreground.

Scope and Contents Correspondence with representatives of the National Trust including Martin Drury, Director-General, Simon Jervis, Historic Buildings Secretary and Gervase Jackson-Stops, Architectural Advisor, mainly relating to Chartwell [Kent]. Subjects include: the loans of pictures, books and furniture belonging to MS to Chartwell; plans for future developments, particularly relating to decoration and furnishings; MS's objections to a children's book on Chartwell; various enquiries about paintings;...

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Correspondence with representatives of the National Trust and others including Professor Stefan Buczacki, mainly relating to Chartwell [Kent]. Subjects include: the loans of pictures, books and furniture belonging to MS to Chartwell; exhibitions and displays; plans for the kitchen garden and tennis court; the management of the gardens. Also includes a National Trust report on the historical development of the grounds and gardens at Chartwell, 1988, and a plan of the rose garden, 1991.

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Photograph of a mechanical excavator and workmen digging in the drained lower lake at Chartwell [Kent], to make an island. The photograph also shows the rail tracks laid so that the spoil could be carried away.

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Photograph of the path down to the lakes at Chartwell [Kent], with heaps of [?] rolls of turf, freckled with snow, to one side.

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Photograph, taken slightly from above, of the ground to the side of the lakes at Chartwell [Kent], freckled with snow, with a rolling landscape and trees in the background.

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Photograph, taken from lake level, of a truck and excavation equipment and a small mound of earth beside the lake at Chartwell [Kent]. There is a small heap of [?] rolled up pieces of turf in the foreground, which is freckled with snow, with trees beyond the lake in the background.

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Half length photograph, taken from below, of WSC standing on the garden steps by the wall at Chartwell [Kent]. He is smiling directly at the camera, wearing a grey jacket and tie with a white handkerchief tucked into the breast pocket and a light coloured homburg type hat. Two women in hats can be seen looking over the wall above him and three more are just starting to descend the steps behind him.

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Includes news footage of Winston Churchill during the war, documentaries about him, many featuring MS as an interviewee, footage of Churchill's funeral, interviews with MS about her own books, and various events in which she took part.

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Interior and exterior photographs of Chartwell, Kent, produced when it was offered for sale by Winston Churchill in 1937, with a copy of the estate agent's brochure.

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Notes for a donors' luncheon held by National Trust at Chartwell [Kent], 1966, including: a list of the original donors who bought Chartwell for the National Trust; guest lists; MS's speech notes for a press conference on life at Chartwell, when the house was opened to the public; commemorative booklet from the Illustrated London News; later correspondence with the National Trust on a film collection from Chartwell being given to the British Film Institute.

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Includes: notes from Grace Hamblin [former secretary to CSC] about the various rooms at Chartwell [Kent] and when the Churchills moved back there after the war; copies of a guest list and menu for a dinner for donors to the Chartwell Trust, July 1947; correspondence on arrangements for handing ownership of the house to the National Trust, with correspondents including 1st Lord Camrose [earlier William Berry], Chairman of the Chartwell Trust; lists of the original and subsequent trustees.

Scope and Contents Letters from Grace Hamblin, administrator of Chartwell [Kent] for the National Trust, on subjects including: work at Chartwell; paintings to be sent to Japan for exhibition, 1977; an exhibition in Philadelphia [United States], 1976; an exhibition in Sydney, Australia, 1975; problems with Oscar Nemon's statue of Sir Winston Churchill and CSC in Westerham; visitor numbers at Chartwell; filming with Sarah, Lady Audley [earlier Sarah Churchill, Sarah Oliver and Sarah Beauchamp] for a programme...

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Includes an insurance inventory of heirlooms at Chartwell [Kent].

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List of deaths of family friends and letters to CSC from Lewis Einstein on life in Paris [France].

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Minutes on subjects including: work at Chartwell [Kent], including the work done by German prisoners of war; Churchill's war memoirs; Churchill's black swans; the racehorses Colonist II, Le Pretendant and Welsh Abbot. Also includes rough speech notes by Churchill for a meeting of the 1922 Committee, mainly relating to Egypt, c 1955, a later note on Colonist II and some of CS's racing accounts, 1981-85.

Scope and Contents Photograph taken from the side of WSC sitting at the far end of a green garden bench [at Chartwell, Kent] with his chocolate-coloured poodle Rufus beside him, nearer the camera. WSC is holding on to Rufus's neck with one hand, and holding his cigar in his mouth and his cane between his fingers with the other. He is twisting slightly to look at the camera, frowning a little, and is wearing a blue siren suit with a white shirt collar sticking out, and a large light coloured sun hat. In the...

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Includes: Dundas Farm, Kent; Normanbrook's house at 11 the Vale, Chelsea, London; views of London; Crowe Hall [Stutton, Suffolk]; Garsington Manor [Oxfordshire]; Chartwell, Kent, including Sir Winston Churchill feeding his black swans, at the fish pond and sitting with [Ida] Mary, Lady Brook [later Lady Normanbrook].

Scope and Contents Copy of a letter from WSC to "S.B." [Stanley Baldwin] on various subjects including: thanks for Baldwin's comments on the proofs of WSC's memoirs [The World Crisis]; hope that the book will do well; his concerns about India and the support he has received for his views in response to his speeches; and a plea that Baldwin will not allow his friendship with Lord Irwin [earlier Edward Wood, later Lord Halifax] to affect his judgement or the action of the Conservative Party on the issue. WSC...

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Photograph taken from above of WSC and CSC standing beside [?] the newly-made bathing pool at Chartwell. WSC is in a siren suit and a hat with a white feather in it, a cigar in his mouth, while CSC is in a long light-coloured checked dress and dark coat with a sun hat, her handbag tucked under one arm and her gloves in her free hand; she is looking upwards at something out of shot. There is a pug beside them, and an open grassy space sloping downhill and woodland in the background.

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Papers relating to the administration of WSC's house at Chartwell, Kent and also dictated Soundscriber recordings made by WSC, mainly when drafting the first volume of his war memoirs, "The Second World War".

Scope and Contents Subjects include: Clementine's stays at the Villa Rêve d’Or, Cannes [France], January 1923, and Cromer, Norfolk, August 1923; Clementine's belief that all it took to be a statesman or a strategist was cool common sense and "to be born into trousers instead of petticoats!"; the question of war reparations; an infection in Clementine's throat; her disappointment with the slow progress of work on their house at Chartwell [Kent]; Clementine's pessimism about the League of Nations and its...

Scope and Contents Subjects include: Clementine's stay at the Villa Rêve d’Or, Cannes [France], January 1923; American serial rights to Churchill’s “The World Crisis”; plans for alterations to their new house at Chartwell [Kent]; a visit from Clementine’s mother [Lady Blanche Hozier] and Clementine’s disapproval of her gambling in the casino at Monte Carlo [Monaco]; Clementine’s stay at Lou Sueil, Eze, with Jacques Balsan and Consuelo Balsan [earlier Consuelo Vanderbilt and Consuelo, Duchess of Marlborough],...

Scope and Contents Subjects include: a stay with Diana Churchill [later Diana Bailey and Diana Sandys] at Lou Sueil, Eze [France], March-April 1928, with Jacques Balsan and Consuelo Balsan [earlier Consuelo Vanderbilt and Consuelo, Duchess of Marlborough] after Clementine had been ill [with mastoiditis]; the bickering between Lord Blandford [later 10th Duke of Marlborough] and his wife Mary; Cabinet's agreement with Churchill's scheme for deregulation of local taxation; Churchill's abstention from voting in...