Item RSP/1/FP/1/9 - Minute Book

Minute book for meetings of the Finance and General Purposes Committee of the Polytechnic between 23 May 1932 and 16 Jun 1947.

Matters arising include: rebuilding scheme; financial statements; new course proposals; cinema tenancy; grants, legacies; Polytechnic Jubilee (1932); annual fete; appointments, resignations and salaries; Polytechnics and the Poorer Classes; clubs and societies; leases; Robert Mitchell bronze casting (Dec 1933); lease of 307-311 Regent Street (July 1934); gift of organ (17 Sep 1934); Chiswick Sports Ground development and running track; Secondary School; Howard Morley legacy; Compassionate Fund; property insurance; installation of organ in the theatre [cinema] (17 Feb 1936); Cinema decorations (21 Sep 1936); air raid precautions (from 15 Feb 1937); coronation celebrations; electrictiy and water supplies; aid raid shelters (23 Oct 1939); evacuation of secondary and craft schools; requisition of Poly property at Chiswick by military; war comforts fund; training of army personnel and production work; Chiswick Sports Ground allotments; war damage insurance; war service allowances to conscientious objectors (15 Dec 1941); memorial to JEK Studd (1944); air raid damage to Chiswick (1944); Education Policy of the Poly (Jan 1945); proposed award of British Kinematograph Society scholarships at the Polytechnic (Jan 1945); renaming of the Secondary School (Dec 1945); Olympic Games 1948 honorary membership for athletes.