Ordnance Survey map of Shepperton and surrounding area: Sheet TQ 06 NE Surrey (1960, reprinted 1969). Scale: 6 inches to 1 mile. The map is not marked or annotated.
'The Domesday Book of Shepperton' (School Project by Bea Ballard)
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An illustrated school project by Bea Ballard, describing various aspects of Shepperton, its history, its people, its wildlife, and its future development (including reference to television studios and to motorway construction). Presented in three exercise books, with large folded illustration s...
Letters from the Prime Minister's Office Concerning Appointment as Commander of the Order of the British Empire
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Two letters from the Secretary for Appointments, 10 Downing Street: 14 May 2003: letter advising that the Prime Minister 'has it in mind' to recommend to the Queen that Ballard be appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE). 14 May 2003: a photocopy of the above letter with ...
Fourteen photographs (A-N), as follows: (A) Mounted professional portrait (without date) of J G Ballard, who appears to be about five years old. Black and white, 245 x 190mm excluding mount. (B-D) 1937. Three black and white prints, in different sizes, of the same image: J G Ballard (wearing a...
Two large group photographs, both taken in the School grounds. (A) October 1946. J G Ballard is standing (wearing a dark jumper) in the back row, just right of centre, 21st person from the right. Black and white, 870 x 255mm (photograph taken by Panora Ltd, 56 Eagle Street, London WC1). (B) Ju...
Four photographs, as follows: (A) J G Ballard at Cambridge, 1950 (annotated on the verso): a double exposure showing two images of Ballard facing each other. Black and white, 60 x 85mm. (B) J G Ballard, 1952 (annotated on the verso). Black and white, 60 x 50mm. (C) 1955. J G Ballard and Helen...
A. J G Ballard's desk (at Shepperton), showing a Remington Travel-Riter Deluxe typewriter, transistor radio and various papers. On the back wall, a poster for an Italian exhibition (1967-68) of surrealist works indicates the earliest possible date of the photograph. Black and white, 145 x 200mm,...
Photographs of German Bunkers, Utah Beach, Normandy
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Sixteen colour photographs (lettered A-P) of German bunkers at Utah Beach, Normandy, France. Four of the photographs have brief descriptive annotations in Ballard's hand on the verso.
Empire of the Sun: Book-Signing and Film-Related Photographs
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1. Ballard at a book-signing event for the publication of Empire of the Sun, at Forbidden Planet, London. Six black and white photographs, A-F (each 170 x 250mm). Photographer not known. 2. Three items relating to the Steven Spielberg film, Empire of the Sun: (G) Ballard in costume for film ext...