Stephen Roskill's photograph album, 1904 - 1976
Scope and Contents
Marked ‘Volume 18 - Continuation of My Sentimental Miscellany of Six Generations of Our Family 1860-1975'.
Mainly comprising black-and-white photographs of the Van den Bergh family, including:
Henry Van den Bergh and Henriette Van den Bergh [née Henriette Spanjaard] and their children, particularly the twins Robert and Elizabeth Van den Bergh [later Elizabeth Roskill], [1904]-29, including in a toy car and in the family car, on the beach in Belgium, as boy scouts, on their brother's motorbike, and on horseback.
The children's nanny, Louise Reymond, undated, 1904, including a postcard to her parents.
A cutting from an exhibition catalogue of a portrait of Elizabeth Van den Bergh by Howard Somerville, ca. 1924.
The family home at Broadwater Court, in Tunbridge Wells, Kent.
A menu for Henry and Henriette Van den Bergh's silver wedding party, 1912.
Also mainly comprising black-and-white photographs of Stephen and Elizabeth Roskill and their family, including:
Stephen Roskill and Elizabeth Van den Bergh at the time of their engagement and marriage, 1930.
The Roskills' children, Nicholas, Mark, Tessa, Mary, Thomas, Clare and Christopher, [1933]-76, and grandchildren, and their nannies, Louise Reymond, [1933]-59, and 'Mamselle', 1945-8.
Holidays in Switzerland, 1934-8; with Oliver Roskill at Ossiacher See, in Austria, 1936; skiing with Lady Fearnley and Alexander ('Sandy') and Zora Glen at Flesberg, in Norway, 1948; at Ménerbes, in France, ca. 1961; and Tessa Roskill with Elizabeth Abel-Smith in Cambodia, [1950s].
HMS Eagle in China, 1933-4.
The family homes at Fletchers in Sidlesham, Sussex, 1935; and St Vincent House in Porchester, Hampshire, 1935-6.
The family home at Blounce, in South Warnborough, Hampshire, 1936-71, including winter snow, the gypsy caravan, harvest, the bomb crater, ponies, a children's party with a conjurer, and an aerial photograph.
HMS Warsprite in Malta, 1938-9.
Claude Frances Webster of the Royal New Zealand Naval Volunteer Reserve, 1940s.
HMNZS Leander in New Zealand, 1941-4.
Stephen Roskill and his brothers Eustace, Oliver and Ashton Roskill at Oliver Roskill's home, the Priory at Beech Hill, Berkshire, ca. 1944.
A poem by Elizabeth Roskill for her nanny, Louise Reymond, on the hundredth anniversary of her birth, 1968.
A linocut by Elizabeth Ruhlmann and a photogaph of an engraved glass by Simon Whistler both showing the family home at Frostlake Cottage, Cambridge, [1970s].
Dates
- Creation: 1904 - 1976
Conditions Governing Access
The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
Extent
1 volume(s)
Language of Materials
English
Finding aid date
2016-03-09 15:01:39+00:00
Repository Details
Part of the Churchill Archives Centre Repository
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Churchill College
Cambridge Cambridgeshire CB3 0DS United Kingdom
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