Add MS 89161/1/14

'My mother was born in 1902, Rose Bland, the third child of eight and first daughter of William and Charlotte Bland of Gorton.' Joan Bakewell, The Centre of the Bed (2003), p. 15.

• (1). Rose Bland (Bakewell's mother). Certificate of Registry of Birth, 23 March 1902. Certificate of Internment, Norbury Churchyard, Hazel Grove, Stockport, 3 July 1961. With typed words by Canon Henry Scott Holland ('Death is nothing at all').
• (2). Two family trees, and related information about family members.
• (3). Photographs, including: Bill Bland, Bakewell's grandfather [c. 1900]; two wedding photographs (Bakewell's parents, 1928); photographs of other family members (identified on the versos). Other material includes: invitation card, Golden Wedding, 11 November 1949 (Bakewell's grandparents); newspaper cutting 24 July 1936 (wedding of Bert Cunliffe and Ada Bland); newspaper cutting undated (presentation of bouquet to Mrs W. Bakewell); newspaper cutting (wedding of Pauline Cunliffe, Joan Bakewell's cousin).
• (4). Correspondence. Bob Cunliffe to 'Uncle Jack' (27 August 1986); Roger Bland to Joan Bakewell ([December 1995] and 10 February 1996); 'Pauline' [cousin] to Bakewell (13 June 2000), enclosing photocopies of letters from their childhood; 'Rosemary' [cousin] to Bakewell ([2004]), enclosing photocopied family photographs.
• (5). Correspondence. Letters and a printed e-mail from Anne Bannister (childhood friend) to Bakewell (7 December 1997, 7 June 1999, 15 February 2001, 26 September 2011. With a set of photocopied childhood correspondence.