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Harrow Technical School and School of Arts and Crafts: Prospectus
HAR/5/4/2 · Item · 1946-1947
Part of Harrow College of Higher Education and predecessors
Includes list of staff, fees, timetables and brief syllabuses of courses in drawing and painting; commercial design; book illustration; interior decoration; industrial design; dress design; courses for teacher of art; preliminary technical courses;, mechnical engineering; electrical engineering; building; carpentry and joinery; plumbing and sanitary engineering; photography; cinematography; matriculation; Internmediate BSc of Pure Science of Engineering; Commercial; Languages; Lip reading; country dancing; domestic courses; as well as a list of classes in the evening intermediate schools including Keep fit.
Harrow Technical School and School of Arts and Crafts: Prospectus
HAR/5/4/3 · Item · 1947-1948
Part of Harrow College of Higher Education and predecessors
Includes list of staff, fees, timetables and brief syllabuses of courses in drawing and painting; commercial design; book illustration; interior decoration; industrial design; dess design; courses for teacher of art; preliminary technical courses;, mechnical engineering; electrical engineering; building; carpentry and joinery; plumbing and sanitary engineering; photography; cinematography; matriculation; Intermediate BSc of Pure Science of Engineering; Commercial; Languages; Lip reading; country dancing; domestic courses; as well as a list of classes in the evening intermediate schools including Keep fit.
Harrow College of Technology and Art: Faculty of Social Sciences: School of Management and Professional Studies: Prospectus
HAR/5/4/46 · Item · 1974-1975
Part of Harrow College of Higher Education and predecessors
Booklet including list of the Governing Body, Advisory Committee and Staff. Includes general information, fees, and details of courses in: Accountancy, Taxation, Company Secretaryship, Banking, Insurance, Business Studies, Public Administration, Marketing, Export, Transport, Salesmanship, Foreign Languages for Businessmen and Teachers, Teacher's Certificates, Shorthand and Typewriting, Speedwriting, Computer courses, Statistics, Management Studies Diploma, Industrial Management, Personnel Management, Administrative Management, Office Supervision, Organisation and Methods, Production Planning and Control, Industrial Supervsion, Industiral Relations for Shop Stewards, Work Study.
Harrow Technical College and School of Art: Department of Engineering and Science: Science and Adult Education section: Prospectus
HAR/5/4/9 · Item · 1951-1952
Part of Harrow College of Higher Education and predecessors
Booklet produced by the Middlesex County Council Education Committee. Includes list of the Board of Governors; general regulations and information; list of staff; timetables, and full details of courses including General Certificate of Edcaution, Applied Physics, Industrial radiography, Photography Applied to Nuclear Physics, the Measurement of Colour, Electron Optics, photography, Chemistry, Physics, French, german, Italian,Russian, Spanish, History, Geography, Cinematography, Cookery, University of London extension Diploma in Social Structure and Social Conditions in England and London History to 1881, public lectures on The centruy of Science and La France, French Circle, English for Foreign Students, Speech Training and Elocution and courses for probationers.. There are also details of the Technical Annexes at Belmont and Eastcote Lane providing courses in Engineering, carpentry and joinery, cookery, dressmaking, metal plate work, commercial aand typing, as well as details of the Workers' Educational Association (Harrow branch).
Log Book
HOL/2/1 · Item · 1884-1929
Part of Holborn College of Law, Languages and Commerce and predecessors

Collins' School Diary or Log Book with handwritten entries and index.
First entry reads: School Board for London: Clerkenwell EC: Bowling Green Lane Night-School. School nights: Monday - Wednesday - Friday.

The book includes statistics (and remarks upon) of attendance; names of staff; copies of government reports of the school including financial details; occasional mentions of pupils by name for exceptional behaviour.

A printed timetable of subjects and teaching staff for 1912 is glued onto pages 240-241, with a handwritten list of staff (including their qualifications, home address and day occupations) on page 246-251. A form relating to payments for Singing classes is glued onto page 253. The general timetable for 1916-17 is glued onto pages 260-262 nd includes the names of teaching staff, and a typescript timetable for Summer 1917 is glued (and folded) onto page 266. Page 268 has timetable for afternoon classes in modern languages, September 1917, held at the School of Photo-Engraving and Lithography. A timetable for Summer 1920 is loose between pages 278 and 279.
Princeton Street College of Languages and Commerce: report for the Ministry of Education
HOL/2/4 · Item · Jul-52
Part of Holborn College of Law, Languages and Commerce and predecessors

Bound typescript report produced by DH Smith, Principal. Second edition of the 1948 report, created in order to bring the College records up-to-date

Contents include: preface; history of the College; area served by the College; Recruitment of students; curriculum; attendance; personnel; buildings and equipment; examinations; social activities; conclusions; statistics of enrolment and list of typewriters.

The volume includes details of war work and courses run for businesses and large organisations, and detailed statistics , student successes, and names of teaching staff.

Two loose sheets, detailing reasons for students attendance on language courses and numbers of students on grouped courses.
History and statistics
HOL/2/5 · File · [1939-1953]
Part of Holborn College of Law, Languages and Commerce and predecessors

Loose leaf papers removed from a binder, containing draft version of the history, statistics and reports used in the Ministry of Education reports.

Contents include:
A History of the Institute: early history; classes held outside Hugh Myddleton Institute (apart from the Princeton St. School of Languages); Princeton Street School of Modern Languages; classes at Throgmorton Avenue.
History of the Institute since the Beginning of War September 1939 including statistics for sessions 1941-42, 1943-43, 1943-44, 1944-45, 1945-46 with overview of training provided for the Army, Canadian Army, ATS, RCAF and Ministry of Labour including censorship, typewriting and language classes.
Area of Institute: including characteristics of area; comments on changes in population and industry in Finsbury; decline in population of Holborn and Finsbury.
Enrolment statistics including student hours and teaching hours, and distribution between the sexes 1923-1949, with years to 1952 annotated in pen.
List of enrolments by subject 1930-1939
Publicity: distribution of prospectuses, hanging cards, handbills, publications approached, and publicity for law classes
Police stations in Area.
Relationships with firms: Hitchcock Williams, Bovril, Liptons, Avery Ltd, Odhams Press, Law Societ, United Law Claerks Association, Union Cold Storage, Courtauls, Armours Ltd, Australia, Royal Assurance Company, Falk Stadedman & Co, Metropolitan Water Board, Prudential Assurance Co, Pearl Assurance Co, The Land Registry, Air Ministry, London & Lancashire & Allied Insurance Co. Also a list of nearby firms.
Statistics of examination results (no individuals named).
Language prizes and examination successes 1937-1938 - named individuals.
Social activities.
Swedish festival., 1939.

Includes a loose map on tracing paper showing where students attend the College from.