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Papers and photographs on the Churchill statue at Westerham, 1965 - 2011

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/NEMO AS 1

Scope and Contents

Includes: letters from Lady Soames [earlier Mary Churchill] to Ion Calvocoressi [one of the trustees of the fund to commission the statue] and his wife, thanking them for their sympathy on the deaths of Sir Winston Churchill and Lord Soames, suggesting Nemon as a possible sculptor for the Westerham statue and commenting on the closeness between Soames and Churchill; notes on the different sites for various versions of the statue at Westerham [Kent]; photographs of maquettes of different versions of the statue; press photographs and cuttings of the unveiling ceremony, July 1969 (see also NEMO 4/11), also a cutting on the display of Churchill’s sculpture of Nemon’s head; recording of the unveiling ceremony (duplicate version at NEMO 2/10); postcards of the statue and a small porcelain pot featuring it; service sheet for a memorial service held for Churchill at Westerham parish church; booklet, 'Churchill, townsman of Westerham'; photograph of the maquette of Nemon's statue of Field Marshal 1st Lord Montgomery of Alamein, c 1980; papers on talks given by Aurelia, Lady Young [earlier Aurelia Nemon] about Nemon's work.

Dates

  • Creation: 1965 - 2011

Creator

Conditions Governing Access

From the Fonds:

The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.

Extent

1 file(s)

1 disc(s)

1 object(s)

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Deposited at Churchill Archives Centre by Richard Calvocoressi, October 2025 and March 2026.

Repository Details

Part of the Churchill Archives Centre Repository

Contact:
Churchill Archives Centre
Churchill College
Cambridge Cambridgeshire CB3 0DS United Kingdom
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