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140 x 88 mm. Coloured post card.

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242 x 193 mm. A view looking over the town towards the harbour with small islands dotted here and there in the distance.

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101 x 152 mm. Showing Commander Green driving off on the Bermuda golf course.

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138 x 88 mm. Coloured postcard.

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243 x 186mm. Showing a small unidentified harbour in Bermuda with small boats moored at the quayside and a house on the hill in the background.

Scope and Contents 101 x 151 mm. Showing the tablet erected in 1875 to Sir George Somers near the spot where his heart was interred in Bermuda. Somers was wrecked in Bermuda in 1609 and after building another boat on the island left with supplies for the Virginia Company's settlement at Jamestown (his original mission). On arrival they found the settlers starving and Somers volunteered to return to Bermuda for more supplies. He died however in Bermuda in1610, urging his men on his deathbed to return to...

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A draft of the first, historical portion of the thesis 'The development of library services in Bermuda', accepted for the Fellowship of the Library Association in 1975, 60 pages. It comprises Part I: The Bermuda background; Part IIA: Early collections; and Part IIB: History and development.

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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.

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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).

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252 x 195mm. A view from a hillside looking down on the bay and out to sea. Photograph by BOAC.

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The title and photographer has been handwritten on the reverse of the print. The initials A. R. P. S follow his name, perhaps the Association of the Royal Photographic Society.

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155 x 110 mm.

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The caption continues 'He is accompanied by the Governor, Sir John Wooddall, and Captain A.S. Rattray, A.D.C. to the Governor'.

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104 x 83 mm. Showing Commander Green standing in a garden with Major and Mrs Trethery.

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90 x 112 mm. Showing participants in the pageant with a banner reading, 'It's your money we want'.

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A view showing a walled bridge over a body of water with buildings (mostly obscured by trees) on either side. Exact location unknown.

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83 x 139 mm. Showing Commander Green driving off on the Bermuda golf links. The figure standing behind him is probably Captain Nicholson, the Governor's ADC.

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241 x 194 mm. Showing the Queen and Prince Philip leaving Government House in a horse drawn landau.

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241 x 194 mm. Showing the Queen and Prince Philip waving as they leave the Sessions House in a horse drawn landau.

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The Governor of Bermuda signing a document, with O. R. Arthur standing by him. Hood (1888-1980) was a doctor who ended a military career as Director of Army Medical Services, 1941-48. He was Governor of Bermuda from 1949 until his retirement in 1955. Sir Winston Churchill commented 'I like Hood' and Lord Moran wrote of him: 'Hood is a full-blooded red-faced Scot with no neck to speak of, as if he had stepped down from a Raeburn portrait for our correction'.

Scope and Contents A collection of loose prints of various sizes (mainly snapshots) by various photographers. The prints are largely uncaptioned and are mainly duplicates of prints in the other parts of the collection. The prints have been grouped chronologically thus: Uganda (1-47), Northern Nigeria (49-68), Caribbean (69-88), Mauritius (89-111), miscellaneous (112-117). The collection also includes 10 original negatives which are listed with the prefix 'Y3011G/ON'. Two geographical anomalies have crept...

Scope and Contents This broad heading has been used to cover a substantial collection of loose prints, dating chiefly from the period 1960-1982, but including a few of earlier date. The majority come from the files of the RCS journal known successfully as ‘United Empire,’ ‘Commonwealth Journal,’ and ‘Commonwealth,’ in which some were published, but there are also items obtained for inclusion in the exhibition ‘Commonwealth in Focus’ in 1982 and these are indicated by CIF and the catalogue number in the...

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Mrs Arthur, Lady Spring-Rice and the dog Moppet, in the Arthur's house in Somerset. Florence Caroline, daughter of Frank Lascelles was married to Sir Cecil Spring Rice, Diplomat and poet, in 1904; he died in 1918 when British Ambassador to the United States of America; she died on 9 December 1961.

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138 x 88 mm. Showing Mrs Popham - Lobb and Lieutenant Commander Talbot - Posonby on the deck of HMS 'Cornwall'.

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85 x 140 mm. Showing Mrs Popham-Lobb, wife of the Bermuda Colonial Secretary, seated in a cabin on board HMS 'Cornwall' with the small black dog Phyllis on her lap.