Torquay (inhabited place)
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
Fonds
A.B. Brewster photograph album
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3091I
Scope and Contents
200 x 150 mm. modern copies of original prints.
Dates:
2006
Conditions Governing Access:
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).
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
File
Scrapbook, 1898 - 1937
File
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 355/2
Scope and Contents
The album contains newspaper articles on the history of Fiji, including the subjects of banana, rubber and cocoanut planting, cannibalism, wildlife, canoes and seamanship, the participation of the Fijian Armed Native Service Constabulary in the coronation of Edward VII in 1910 (commanded by Brewster), the visit of Fijians for the Imperial Exhibition at Wembley in 1924 and the discovery of Thakombau’s war club in the Royal Collection. Many of the articles were written by Brewster, some...
Dates:
1898 - 1937
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).
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
/
Papers of A.B. Brewster
Item
The Joske family: Father Fox, Alice Brewster, Adolf B. Brewster, Ogilvie, Ratu Veli, 2006
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3091I/38
Scope and Contents
Ratu Veli, Roko Tui of the Province of Macuata visited England to mark the jubilee of British rule in Fiji and to represent it at the British Empire Exhibition at Wembley.
Dates:
2006
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).