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Memorabilia of Clapham County School and Walsingham School

The Quondam archive comprises various material including newsletters and photographs spanning the history of the schools and the teachers and pupils that took part in the history of the schools.

Extensive material is kept by the Quondam Committee and is available to view at the annual reunion which is held on the second Saturday in October each year at the school building.

Archive material is held by the National Archives at Kew:

Reference: Battersea: Clapham: County Secondary School (formerly Battersea Polytechnic Girls)

http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C3175081

Archive material is held at the London Metropolitan Archives:

Timetable, 1930; School magazines, 1932-1940; annual leaflet, 1945; Jubilee book of the school, 1909-1959; memorial booklet for "Miss Jones" (1880-1966), 1966; order of service sheet for Betty Freeth (1904-1984), 1984; memorial booklet for Betty Freeth (1904-1984), 1984; order of service booklet for Mary Pinder (1907-1991), 1991 and school photograph, 1937.

Reference: CLAPHAM COUNTY SECONDARY SCHOOL

Reference Code: ACC/3708

https://search.lma.gov.uk/scripts/mwimain.dll/144/LMA_OPAC/web_detail/REFD+ACC~2F3708?SESSIONSEARCH

29 boxes of archive material is available at the Women's Library which is located at the LSE in Aldwych, London:

The Women's Library

‘… the Library is probably dearest to my heart, for it keeps alive the history of “the long march to equality” which has so often been forgotten or ignored.’ - Mary Stott, 1987

Introduction: http://www.lse.ac.uk/Library/Collections/Collection-highlights/The-Womens-Library

Archive: https://twl-calm.library.lse.ac.uk/CalmView/

Clapham County School: https://twl-calm.library.lse.ac.uk/CalmView/Record.aspx?src=CalmView.Catalog&id=5CLC&pos=1

The archive consists of Registers of Admissions, leavers, exam results and staff; log books; headmistresses’ reports and speeches; programmes and orders of service; school magazines and prospectuses; other records and printed books; photographs and colour slides; press cuttings; objects. Years spanning 1903-1992.