"Homes of the LMS". Scrapbook of photographs, cuttings, souvenir books and correspondence.

Groups include: Board members in Board Room of 42 Broadway including [Victor] Barradale, [Godfrey Edward] Phillips, F H Hawkins, [William] Nelson Bitton, Mrs Parker Crane, & Howard Diamond People include: Rev L H Gaunt, editor at his desk inside mission house at 16 New Bridge Street; Miss [Jessi...

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Order number: CWM/LMS/Home/Photographs/Box 1
Date(s) of creation: c. 1910 - c. 1950
Level: File
Format: Archive           

Order number: CWM/LMS/Home/Photographs/Box 1
Summary: Groups include: Board members in Board Room of 42 Broadway including [Victor] Barradale, [Godfrey Edward] Phillips, F H Hawkins, [William] Nelson Bitton, Mrs Parker Crane, & Howard Diamond People include: Rev L H Gaunt, editor at his desk inside mission house at 16 New Bridge Street; Miss [Jessie] M Balgarnie, General Secretary of the Watchers' Band, in her room at mission house at 16 New Bridge Street. Activities include: working on the site of offices of London Underground at Westminster. Places and buildings include; exterior of LMS Headquarters, 48 Broadway, Westminster; entrance to 42 Broadway; interior of board room and bookroom of Livingstone House; [David] Chamberlin's and General Secretary's desks, Livingstone House; exterior and interiorviews of mission house at 16 New Bridge Street used in A Souvenir of the New Mission House February 1905 including views of General Office showing main entrance; St. Bride's Steeple from the Museum; exterior of temporary premises at 30 Gray's Inn Road; engravings of exterior of mission house at Finsbury Square; drawings of exterior and interior of Castle and Falcon; vestry of Penn Street Tabernacle in Bristol; Old Swan Wharf; entrance to the Fleet river. Also includes: article on The London from The Chronicle January 1934; programme of Livingstone House opening ceremony, 6 March, 1928 and text of prayer; notes for a guide to the mission house; history of Baker's Chop House; booklet commemorating The Grasshopper in Lombard Street; correspondence regarding premises of LMS. Prints taken by; A E Smith; G L Johnson; G F Green.
Extent: 25 unfastened album pages comprising 23 silver gelatin and Printing Out Paper photographic prints; 4 letter; 4 non-photographic prints; 5 programmes or booklets; 1 extract from The Chronicle; 1 newspaper clipping.
Access status: Open
Copyright: Copyright held by various photographers and posssibly Council for World Mission.
File number: 1
Related material: See also "Home of the LMS" concertina folder of images and captions (ref: CWM/LMS/Home/Home Pictures/7)
Format: Archive