File contains:
Personal calling card of Miss Roma I Brookes;
6d National Savings stamps;
Pencil note recording Roma Brookes' marks for the Summer Term, 1930;
Service sheet for Kettering High School Silver Jubilee service of commemoration and thanksgiving 1938;
Receipts, chiefly from stores etc in Brighton, 1940s and 1950s;
Newspaper notices of the death of Albert Brookes [Roma’s father] on 9 August 1947, aged 65;
Letter of condolence from Northampton County Education Office on the death of Albert Brookes, 1947;
News cutting entitled ‘£25 Gift to Start Fund: Memorial to Mr Albert Brookes’ [1947];
News cutting concerning the raising of fees at GPDST junior girls’ schools, no date;
Membership cards - The Italian Institute 1951/2; British Federation of University Women 1951/52, 1952/3 and 1953/4; Association of Assistant Mistresses in Secondary Schools 1953;
National Insurance Card 1950;
Wartime rationing - personal points for sweets;
News cutting entitled ‘Teachers say Forget Forms: Revolt against Bureaucracy’ - quotes Ethel Strudwick, High Mistress of St Paul’s Girls’ School 1927-48 - circa 1950?;
Illustrated prospectus for Hillcroft College, Residential College for Women, Surbiton, Surrey [1950s?];
News cutting concerning a Corby Christmas party, no date;
Cambridge University Tripos results published in the Manchester Guardian June 20 1938 (lists R B, who achieved a II/1 in Modern Languages Part II);
Invitation to a garden party at Buckingham Palace 19 July 1973.