Four exercise books containing Minutes, reports on productions, and membership information. Together with several loose sheets referring to HAT [Hendon Arts Together]annual conference, income and expenditure, and other matters, including some correspondence. Secretary: Bob Cobbing.
Bob Cobbing: Hendon Arts Theatre (Posters, Tickets, Programmes)
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Posters, tickets and programmes for various productions. Some of the posters are mounted and hand-coloured. With two black and white photographs (155 x 210mm) of a period stage production, both of which include Cobbing.
Bob Cobbing: Hendon Teaching Notes ('The Arts Today' and 'Introduction to the Arts')
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Six exercise books containing teaching notes, with various loose sheets (particularly, poems for discussion). One exercise book is entitled 'The Arts Today' and the other five are entitled 'Introduction to the Arts'. One loose sheet is headed Hendon Poetry Society (dated 17 February, 1953). A p...
Two exercise books: (1) various notes on English poetry, particularly Chaucer (pages are detached from exercise book cover); (2) an anthology of various poems copied and pasted-in.
Two exercise books containing Minutes to the Hendon Poetry Society (1950-58), including details of members and attendance - with some additional sheets loosely inserted (programme for 1951-52, and 1956). A third exercise book (entitled 'Enjoyment of Poetry') containing related notes on poets and...
Bob Cobbing: Hendon Writers' Circle and Hendon Writers' Group
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Minutes of Meetings of the Hendon Writers' Circle (1952-57), and of Meetings of the Writers' Group (1957-58). Also, a double-page mock-up (1954) from a Hendon Arts Together publication that includes a one-page announcement of AND magazine: 'And now, in 1954, the magazine AND..., a magazine whic...
Bob Cobbing: Two Notebooks on Painting and Poetry, and Newspaper Cuttings Concerning William Gear
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(1) Two notebooks entitled 'The Nature of Painting' and 'The Nature of Poetry', both containing copied passages from various authors. (2) A small album of newspaper cuttings concerning the purchase by the Arts Council of the painting 'Autumn Landscape' by William Gear. The purchase provoked som...
Bob Cobbing: Finchley Society of Arts (Constitution and Bulletins)
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The Constitution of Finchley Society of Arts, with Bulletins spanning 1960-64. With five small booklets advertising lectures, films and music events at Finchley Public Library (1961-65, with gaps), including The Lively Arts 'planned and run for the Library Committee by Mr R Cobbing' (1964 and 1...