Chartwell Manor
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Found in 435 Collections and/or Records:
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Personal: Chartwell [Kent] Estate: Plans., 1938 - 1939
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 1/342
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
These are the papers relating to the activities of WSC as a private person. They include correspondence with or about his family and friends on non-public topics, and papers relating to his personal, financial and legal affairs, and his social life. For the purposes of this arrangement, his activities in the Regular and Territorial Armies, in Cuba and during the Boer War in South Africa, and as a painter, have been regarded as personal. For the period 1940-1945 material of a personal nature...
Dates:
1938 - 1939
Conditions Governing Access:
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Personal: Chartwell [Kent] Estate: Swimming pool: Plans., 1934
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 1/258
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
These are the papers relating to the activities of WSC as a private person. They include correspondence with or about his family and friends on non-public topics, and papers relating to his personal, financial and legal affairs, and his social life. For the purposes of this arrangement, his activities in the Regular and Territorial Armies, in Cuba and during the Boer War in South Africa, and as a painter, have been regarded as personal. For the period 1940-1945 material of a personal nature...
Dates:
1934
Conditions Governing Access:
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Personal: Chartwell [Kent] Estate: Trade circulars and Business letters., 1937
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 1/307
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
These are the papers relating to the activities of WSC as a private person. They include correspondence with or about his family and friends on non-public topics, and papers relating to his personal, financial and legal affairs, and his social life. For the purposes of this arrangement, his activities in the Regular and Territorial Armies, in Cuba and during the Boer War in South Africa, and as a painter, have been regarded as personal. For the period 1940-1945 material of a personal nature...
Dates:
1937
Conditions Governing Access:
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Personal: Chartwell [Kent] Farm: Accounts paid., 1937 - 1938
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 1/320
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
These are the papers relating to the activities of WSC as a private person. They include correspondence with or about his family and friends on non-public topics, and papers relating to his personal, financial and legal affairs, and his social life. For the purposes of this arrangement, his activities in the Regular and Territorial Armies, in Cuba and during the Boer War in South Africa, and as a painter, have been regarded as personal. For the period 1940-1945 material of a personal nature...
Dates:
1937 - 1938
Conditions Governing Access:
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Personal: Chartwell [Kent] garden., Sep 1945 - Dec 1947
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 1/33
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include: representatives of East Malling [Kent] Research Station (5) and Hillier and Sons, nurserymen and seedsmen, (9). Also includes notes and copies of correspondence from CSC and secretaries Grace Hamblin, Kathleen Hill, and Lettice Marston [later Lettice Shillingford].Subjects include: purchasing and growing plants, trees, and flowers; encouraging bees; recommending treatments; instructions to the gardener, Harris; opening the grounds to visitors.Also includes: East...
Dates:
Sep 1945 - Dec 1947
Conditions Governing Access:
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Personal: Chartwell: National Trust luncheon., May 1947 - Feb 1948
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 1/36
Scope and Contents
Includes acceptances and refusals for a luncheon held at Chartwell on 25 July 1947 (postponed from 11 July) from various invitees and their private secretaries: Sir James Caird (3); Sir Edward Peacock (3); Sir Edward Mountain (3); 2nd Lord Glendyne [earlier Sir John Nivison] (3); Sir James Lithgow and Gwendolyn, Lady Lithgow (3); J Arthur Rank (3); 1st Lord Catto [Governor of Bank of England] (3); 2nd Lord Bearsted [earlier Lord Samuel] (3); 1st Lord Kenilworth [earlier Sir John Siddeley]...
Dates:
May 1947 - Feb 1948
Conditions Governing Access:
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Personal: Chartwell: Parkside Farm (French Street, Westerham [Kent])., Dec 1946 - Nov 1947
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 1/35
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include: representatives of Nicholl, Manisty and Few [WSC's solicitors] (8); Guy Hanscomb, estate agent (8); representatives of Knight, Frank and Rutley [estate agents] (6). Also includes notes and copies of correspondence from secretaries Grace Hamblin and Elizabeth Gilliatt.Subjects include: the purchase of the farm; details of plants intended to be grown in the greenhouses.Also includes: details and map of the farm; inventory and valuation.
Dates:
Dec 1946 - Nov 1947
Conditions Governing Access:
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Personal: Family etc.: correspondence., 03 Jan 1948 - 11 Mar 1950
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 1/46
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include: "Mule" [Sarah Oliver, earlier Sarah Churchill, later Sarah Beauchamp, then Sarah, Lady Audley] on subjects including her visit to Canada and her wedding to Antony Beauchamp (16); "Alex", 1st Lord Alexander of Tunis [Governor-General of Canada]; Bernard Baruch; CSC on subjects including WSC's leadership of the Conservative Party, Chartwell [Kent] and Sarah (12); Antony Beauchamp; Hugh [? Frewen]; Oswald Frewen (2); Amy Guest (4); Raymond Guest; Sir Shane Leslie (3);...
Dates:
03 Jan 1948 - 11 Mar 1950
Conditions Governing Access:
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Personal: Family etc.: correspondence., 07 Jun 1951 - 10 Oct 1951
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 1/49
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include: "Sunny", Lord Blandford [later 11th Duke of Marlborough]; Sarah Churchill [later Sarah Crewe]; John G Churchill; CSC (7); Roger Frewen (2); Winston Guest (2); "Kitty", Lady Katherine Lambton; Mary, Duchess of Marlborough [earlier Mary, Lady Blandford] (3); Charles Rhys [later 8th Lord Dynevor]; Hope Rhys [later Hope, Lady Dynevor]; Giles Romilly; Clare Sheridan (3); [?] Patrick Mayhew, Secretary, Oxford University Conservative Association; Diana Sandys [earlier Diana...
Dates:
07 Jun 1951 - 10 Oct 1951
Conditions Governing Access:
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Personal: Family etc.: Correspondence A - Churchill, John., Apr 1955 - May 1964
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 1/135
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include: Henry, Lord Audley (3); Sarah, Lady Audley [earlier Sarah Churchill, Sarah Oliver and Sarah Beauchamp] (16) on subjects including her acting career, her finances, her marriage to Lord Audley and his death; Arabella Churchill (6); CSC (28) on subjects including her visit to Paris [France] in 1956, the success of an exhibition of WSC's paintings, concern about Sarah [Lady Audley] and her arrest in Liverpool in 1959, a statue of WSC by David McFall, WSC's visit to the...
Dates:
Apr 1955 - May 1964
Conditions Governing Access:
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Personal: Family etc.: correspondence A - Churchill, Lady C (CSC)., 26 Oct 1951 - Apr 1955
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 1/50A-B
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include: Consuelo Balsan [earlier Consuelo, Duchess of Marlborough] on her memoirs, "The Glitter and the Gold", including her criticism of Henry Asquith [1st Lord Oxford and Asquith] and Margot Asquith [Margot, Lady Oxford and Asquith] (9); Cass Canfield, Chairman of Harper and Brothers, Publishers (2); Sarah Beauchamp, "Mule" [earlier Sarah Churchill, then Sarah Oliver, later Sarah, Lady Audley], on subjects including Oscar Nemon's sculpture of WSC, the death of Queen Mary...
Dates:
26 Oct 1951 - Apr 1955
Conditions Governing Access:
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Personal: Family etc.: correspondence A - J., 29 Nov 1949 - 23 May 1951
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 1/47
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include: Consuelo Balsan [earlier Consuelo, Duchess of Marlborough] (2); "Mule" [Sarah Beauchamp, earlier Sarah Churchill, then Sarah Oliver, later Sarah, Lady Audley] (15); Antony Beauchamp on subjects including hopes for WSC's re-election (4); CSC on subjects including Chartwell [Kent], and avoiding offence to Queen Juliana [? of the Netherlands] (52); "Bendor" [2nd Duke of Westminster]; Diana Sandys [earlier Diana Churchill, later Diana Bailey]; Mary Soames [earlier Mary...
Dates:
29 Nov 1949 - 23 May 1951
Conditions Governing Access:
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Personal: Family etc.: correspondence A - L., 16 Oct 1943 - 16 Sep 1947
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 1/41
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include: George Spencer-Churchill, on subjects including WSC's writing and the political situation (3); Lady Caroline Spencer-Churchill; Lord Charles Spencer-Churchill; CSC on subjects including WSC's holiday at Lake Como [Italy], his painting, Chartwell [Kent], Mary Churchill [later Mary Soames], and the Council of Foreign Ministers (18); Horatia Seymour; Mary Churchill on her posting to Britain; John S Churchill (3); Pamela Digby [earlier Pamela Churchill, later Pamela...
Dates:
16 Oct 1943 - 16 Sep 1947
Conditions Governing Access:
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Personal: Family etc.: correspondence A - L., 11 Jan 1947 - 30 Jan 1949
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 1/44
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include: Jacques Balsan; "Sunny" [Lord Blandford, later 11th Duke of Marlborough]; CSC on subjects including President Roosevelt and the future of Chartwell Farm [Kent] (16); Lord Charles Spencer-Churchill; Lord Ivor Churchill; Hugh Frewen (2); Margaret de Reneville (2); Oswald Frewen (4); Amy Guest (2); Raymond Guest (2); representatives of Nicholl, Manisty, Few and Company (11); Anita Leslie [later Anita King] (2); Desmond Leslie; Sir Shane Leslie, on his biography of...
Dates:
11 Jan 1947 - 30 Jan 1949
Conditions Governing Access:
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Personal: Family etc.: correspondence Churchill A - C., 04 Mar 1955 - 31 Aug 1958
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 1/55
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include: Arabella Churchill (4); CSC on subjects including WSC's work on volume 1 of ["A History of the English-Speaking Peoples"], her visit to Ceylon [later Sri Lanka], the Suez Canal [Egypt], family affairs, Chartwell [Kent], WSC's painting and the death of 1st Lord Bracken (91); Diana Sandys [earlier Diana Churchill, then Diana Bailey] (2); Mary Soames [earlier Mary Churchill] (3); Max Rosenheim [Director, Medical Unit, University College Hospital Medical School]; Sarah...
Dates:
04 Mar 1955 - 31 Aug 1958
Conditions Governing Access:
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Personal: Family etc.: Correspondence Churchill J - S., 18 Jun 1955 - 18 Oct 1958
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 1/56
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include: John G Churchill (7); Sarah [Crewe], earlier Sarah Churchill; Randolph Churchill on subjects including WSC's attitude to his writing (7); Sarah Beauchamp [earlier Sarah Churchill, then Sarah Oliver, later Sarah, Lady Audley] on subjects including her acting and CSC's health (11); Winston Churchill (8); Pamela, Lady Lytton [earlier Pamela Plowden] (2); Diana Sandys [earlier Diana Churchill, later Diana Bailey] on WSC meeting Duncan Sandys; Edwina Sandys [later Edwina...
Dates:
18 Jun 1955 - 18 Oct 1958
Conditions Governing Access:
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Personal: Family etc.: correspondence K - Z., 06 Jan 1950 - 27 May 1951
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 1/48
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include: Desmond Leslie (5); Sir Shane Leslie (2); Mary, Duchess of Marlborough [earlier Mary, Lady Blandford]; "Bert" [10th Duke of Marlborough, earlier Lord Blandford] (4); Pamela Churchill [later Pamela Harriman]; Randolph Churchill on subjects including his General Election campaign at Devonport [Plymouth, Devon] and Korea (10); Colin Coote [Editor, Daily Telegraph and Morning Post]; June Churchill on subjects including Randolph's work as a reporter in Korea (5); CSC;...
Dates:
06 Jan 1950 - 27 May 1951
Conditions Governing Access:
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Personal: Family etc.: correspondence M - Z., 03 Jan 1947 - 31 Dec 1948
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 1/45
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include: Sarah Oliver ("Mule") [earlier Sarah Churchill, later Sarah Beauchamp, then Sarah, Lady Audley] on subjects including her career, family life and her holiday with WSC in Marrakech [Marrakesh] [Morocco] (15); CSC on subjects including a house for Randolph Churchill (6); Randolph Churchill on subjects including controversy between himself and the New Zealand unions, and the Presidential elections in the United States (17); Bella Lobban on a poodle, "Rufus" for WSC (4);...
Dates:
03 Jan 1947 - 31 Dec 1948
Conditions Governing Access:
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Personal: Family etc.: Golden Wedding gift: Golden Rose avenue., 29 Aug 1958 - 06 Sep 1958
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 1/57
Scope and Contents
Includes: typescript plans of a book presented to WSC and CSC by their children, illustrating individual roses from their Golden Wedding gift of a rose avenue at Chartwell [Kent]; photographs of each rose in the book, drawn by artists including: Cathleen Mann; John Armstrong; Mary Potter; Ivon Hitchens; Paul Maze; Duncan Grant; Vanessa Bell; Cecil Beaton; John Nash; Augustus John; R A Butler; John Aldridge; Oliver Messel.Also includes: letters from Randolph Churchill on the book (3); a...
Dates:
29 Aug 1958 - 06 Sep 1958
Conditions Governing Access:
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Personal: Financial Affairs: Lloyds Bank: Statement of Account., Oct 1937 - May 1939
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 1/321
Scope and Contents
Statement of WSC's current account with Lloyds Bank Limited, Cox's & King's Branch.
Dates:
Oct 1937 - May 1939
Conditions Governing Access:
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Personal: Financial: income tax and surtax correspondence., 06 Mar 1940 - 22 Oct 1958
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 1/7
Scope and Contents
Correspondents on WSC's tax, financial, and investments position include: representatives of Fladgate and Company, particularly Anthony Moir [WSC's solicitor], (20); representatives of Lloyds Bank, particularly Geoffrey Mason, (29); representatives of Cassell and Company, including a Director, Desmond Flower, (2); Andrew Heiskell, [General Manager] of Life Magazine; John Wood of Wood, Willey, and Company [WSC's accountants] (50); Henry Luce [owner of Time magazine]; William Whitney, London...
Dates:
06 Mar 1940 - 22 Oct 1958
Conditions Governing Access:
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Personal: Financial: income tax, surtax, property, salary: statements, accounts, memoranda, and forecasts prepared by Wood, Willey and Company [WSC's accountants]., 19 Oct 1951 - 16 Apr 1955
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 1/8
Scope and Contents
Includes: accounts for Chartwell Farm [Kent] (September 1951 to September 1954) and 10 Downing Street (April 1952 to April 1954); financial statements (April 1951 to February 1954); turf account (August 1949 to October 1951); forecasts of living and other expenses (June 1952 to April 1953); profit and loss account for stud and valuation of horses (September 1953 to September 1954); particulars of income for 1952-3 surtax return and 1953-4 income tax return; estimated savings in taxes by...
Dates:
19 Oct 1951 - 16 Apr 1955
Conditions Governing Access:
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Personal: Financial: Lloyds Bank: National Appeals, Chartwell Farm, and Presentation accounts., 05 Feb 1953 - 26 Oct 1957
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 1/5
Scope and Contents
Statements of WSC's National Appeals account for March to June 1953, Chartwell Farm [Kent] account for February 1953 to October 1957, and Presentation account for April 1955 to July 1957, all with Lloyds Bank, Cox's & King's Branch, 6 Pall Mall, London.
Dates:
05 Feb 1953 - 26 Oct 1957
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Personal: Trade and business letters., 18 Jan 1944 - 06 Dec 1944
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 1/383
Scope and Contents
Correspondence, mainly concerning fish at Chartwell [Kent], and the presentation of a case of brandy by Rouyer Guillet and Company.
Dates:
18 Jan 1944 - 06 Dec 1944
Conditions Governing Access:
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Photograph album, 1929 - 1935
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/MCHL 6/1/1
Scope and Contents
Album of small family snaps, including: MS, Sarah Churchill [later Sarah Oliver, Sarah Beauchamp and Sarah, Lady Audley], Clarissa Churchill [later Clarissa Eden and Clarissa, Lady Avon] and Diana Churchill [later Diana Bailey and Diana Sandys] as children at Chartwell [Kent], with various dogs and cats; Amy Johnson's arrival at [London Airport], Croydon in her Gipsy Moth aeroplane "Jason" [following her solo flight from Britain to Australia, 1930]; "Nana" [Maryott Whyte] and various members...
Dates:
1929 - 1935
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