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Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 3777 Collections and/or Records:

 Person

Hird, Thora, Dame, 1911-2003 (Actor)

 Person
Dates: Existence: 1911 - 2003
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H.M. Dockyard and Grassy Bay : H.M.S. Dominion in dock, 1910

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3070B/8
Scope and Contents

245 x 194 mm. A view from a hillside on Ireland Island looking across towards the dockyard and Grassy Bay, with the battleship 'Dominion' in dock near the bay.

Dates: 1910
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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H.M. Government building, 1924

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/PC BEE/4
Scope and Contents

Captioned 'Campbell Gray' in bottom right-hand corner.

Dates: 1924
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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H.M. the Queen visiting Malayan stand, British Industries Fair, Earls Court, May 1953, 1953-05

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/BAM 9/13
Scope and Contents

245 x 198 mm. Showing Queen Elizabeth II inspecting exhibits at the stand, escorted by Peter Thorneycroft (1909-), President of the Board of Trade 1951-1957, and Wilfrid Arthur Ward (1892-1981), Commissioner for Malaya in the U.K. 1948-1953.

Dates: 1953-05
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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H.M. The Queen visiting Malayan stand, British Industries Fair, Earls Court, May 1953, 1953-05

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/BAM 9/14
Scope and Contents

245 x 198 mm. Showing the Queen inspecting a plate (probably Kelantan silverware) held by W.A. Ward, with Peter Thorneycroft standing in the background.

Dates: 1953-05
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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H.M. The Queen visiting Malayan stand, British Industries Fair, Earls Court, May 1953, 1953-05

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/BAM 9/15
Scope and Contents

Showing the Queen looking at Malayan silverware with the Duke of Edinburgh, Mr and Mrs W.A. Ward and Peter Thorneycroft.

Dates: 1953-05
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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H.M. The Queen visiting Malayan stand, British Industries Fair, Earls Court, May 1953, 1953-05

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/BAM 9/16
Scope and Contents

247 x 190 mm.

Dates: 1953-05
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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H.M.S. 'Boadicea' at Spithead, Portsmouth 1885, 1885

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y305K/6
Scope and Contents

268 x 200 mm. Showing 'Boadicea' at anchor at Spithead on her return from duty as flagship of the Cape and West Coast of Africa Station.

Dates: 1885
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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HMS 'Cornwall' at Devonport. Garland for Roberts' wedding, 6th August 1908, 1908-08-06

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3070A/19
Scope and Contents

79 x 77 mm. Showing HMS 'Cornwall' moored at Devonport with a garland hanging from one of her masts.

Dates: 1908-08-06
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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HMS 'Cornwall', Bermuda, December 1908, 1908-12

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3070A/34
Scope and Contents

83 x 138 mm. Showing the compiler of the album, Engineer Commander Donald P. Green sitting in a cabin on board HMS 'Cornwall' with a small dog on his lap (named Phyllis, refer to Y3070A/35).

Dates: 1908-12
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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H.M.S. Jumna, 1878 - 1879

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022NN/1
Scope and Contents

195 x 126 mm. General view of the troopship Jumna at her moorings at an unidentified location (London Docks?). The Jumna was a barque-rigged screw ship with iron hull.

Dates: 1878 - 1879
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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HMS Medina, 1911

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/QM 20/1
Scope and Contents

The Medina was a recently (14 March 1911) launched P and O liners specially fitted out to serve as the royal yacht for the tour.

Dates: 1911
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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HMS Medina, 1911

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/QM 20/2
Scope and Contents

The Medina was a recently (14 March 1911) launched P and O liners specially fitted out to serve as the royal yacht for the tour.

Dates: 1911
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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HMS Medina, 1911

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/QM 20/3
Scope and Contents

The Medina was a recently (14 March 1911) launched P and O liners specially fitted out to serve as the royal yacht for the tour.

Dates: 1911
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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HMS 'Northampton'. Sheerness. Children's party, 1878 - 1905

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011III/77
Scope and Contents

277 x 230 mm. HMS Northampton was a Nelson Class armoured cruiser, launched 1876, completed 1878, and sold 1905. She was the Flagship N.A. and W.I. Station until 1886 when she went in for a refit. After refit placed on reserve, but commissioned regularly to take part in manoeuvres until 1894, when she became a boy's training ship.

Dates: 1878 - 1905
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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H.M.S. Renown arriving at Portsmouth, May 8th 1906, 1906-05-08

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/QM 7/193
Scope and Contents From the File: Contains prints approximately 50 x 80 mm to 290 x 249 mm. Captions are handwritten by the Prince of Wales. This records the rest of visit to India of the Prince of Wales (later King George V) and Princess Mary. Subjects include: visits to Aden, Cairo, and Corfu on the return journey to the U.K., with arrival in London on May 8, 1906. Appended are photographs taken during the visit by the Prince and Princess of Wales to Madrid for the wedding of King Alfonso XIII and Queen Ena (May 31,...
Dates: 1906-05-08
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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H.M.S. Renown arriving at Portsmouth, May 8th 1906, 1906-05-08

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/QM 7/200
Scope and Contents

Docking at Portsmouth.

Dates: 1906-05-08
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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H.M.S. Renown, Portsmouth, 1906

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/QM 7/198
Scope and Contents From the File: Contains prints approximately 50 x 80 mm to 290 x 249 mm. Captions are handwritten by the Prince of Wales. This records the rest of visit to India of the Prince of Wales (later King George V) and Princess Mary. Subjects include: visits to Aden, Cairo, and Corfu on the return journey to the U.K., with arrival in London on May 8, 1906. Appended are photographs taken during the visit by the Prince and Princess of Wales to Madrid for the wedding of King Alfonso XIII and Queen Ena (May 31,...
Dates: 1906
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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H.M.S. Renown, Portsmouth, 1906

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/QM 7/199
Scope and Contents From the File: Contains prints approximately 50 x 80 mm to 290 x 249 mm. Captions are handwritten by the Prince of Wales. This records the rest of visit to India of the Prince of Wales (later King George V) and Princess Mary. Subjects include: visits to Aden, Cairo, and Corfu on the return journey to the U.K., with arrival in London on May 8, 1906. Appended are photographs taken during the visit by the Prince and Princess of Wales to Madrid for the wedding of King Alfonso XIII and Queen Ena (May 31,...
Dates: 1906
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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H.M.S. 'Royal Sovereign', 1880 - 1889

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y305K/65
Scope and Contents

240 x 154 mm. Showing the twin funnelled battleship under way, probably in Plymouth harbour. The caption continues 'the largest fighting ship afloat. Flagship of the Channel Squadron. Vice Admiral Sir Henry Fairfax KCB. Commissioned at Portsmouth 30th May 1892'.

Dates: 1880 - 1889
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).