Cancelled passports and other identifying papers, photographs, family documents, and material relating to school and university education, including letters from friends. Also includes letters from Harold Pinter.
Two items: (1). Scrapbook (brown paper covers) containing a variety of items pasted-in and loosely inserted. Contents include material relating to school and other activities and events attended: concerts, exhibitions, cricket matches, and newspaper cuttings. The first items are school examinati...
(1) Printed booklet: 'The Order of Confirmation with Private Devotions for the Candidates'. (2). Printed volume: Holy Communion (London, 1939). Inscribed on the front flyleaf by E. Taylor, Vicar: 'Joan Dawson Rowlands / confirmed by / The Bishop of Chester / at / Norbury Church / on Sunday, June ...
Various materials, including: Stockport High School blazer badge; an autograph untitled play in four scenes; review of school play, Midsummer Night's Dream in which Joan Rowlands played Hermia (newspaper cutting, 1947); small spiral bound notebook ('1947 holiday') and other small exercise books; ...
Various materials relating to Arthur Rowlands (1904-2000), Bakewell's uncle. Order of Funeral Service, 22 May 2000, St. Mary's Church, Eastham (Funeral Address given by Bakewell). Enclosing various notes by Bakewell about her uncle. Photographs: small black and white photograph (60 x 40 mm) of A...
Various programmes and associated material for performances by the Cambridge University Mummers, of which Joan Rowlands [Bakewell] was a member. Includes photographs of three productions (1952) in which Bakewell was cast: The Importance of Being Earnest; A Month in the Country; and Point of Depa...
(1). Honorary Fellowship of the Royal College of Art, conferred at a Convocation held 7 July 1989. (2). BP Arts Journalism Awards 1990. Special Award for Services to Arts Journalism, presented at The Mermaid Theatre, London, March 1991.
Various letters from school contemporaries, including some cuttings and photographs. Letters prompted by Bakewell's autobiography, novels and broadcasts.
Joan Bakewell: Cambridge Clubs, Societies and Balls
Scope & Content:
Programmes, membership information, and invitations. Includes: Cambridge Film Society, English Club, Newnham College Balls, Labour Club, The Marshall Society, The Shirley Society, Musical Comedy Club, Cambridge Heretics, and the Amateur Dramatic Club.