Papers and photographs on the Churchill statue at Westerham, 1965 - 2011
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
- From the Fonds: Nemon, Oscar, 1906 - 1985 (sculptor) (Person)
Conditions Governing Access
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
Churchill Archives Centre
Churchill College
Cambridge Cambridgeshire CB3 0DS United Kingdom
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