Recording of interview with Lionel Price, former Poly School boy c1939-1943, played basketball at Poly and for Team GB in the 1948 Olympic Games.
Interviewer: Claire Brunnen, Cataloguing Archivist.
Discusses: growing up in London; attending the Polytechnic Secondary School; being evacuated to Minehead, Sommerset during World War Two; playing basketball at the Poly and for Great Britain in the 1948 Olympic Games; involvement in London 2012 Olympic Games; career.
Recording of interview with Harold Beck, pupil at the Polytechnic Secondary School during World War Two.
Interviewer by Claire Brunnen, Cataloguing Archivist.
Discusses life at the Secondary School at Regent Street and whilst evacuated to Minehead, facilities at Regent Street including the Cinema.
Minute book for meetings of the Finance and General Purposes Committee of the Polytechnic between 24 Nov 1921 and 21 Jan 1929.
Matters arising include: financial statements; appointments, salaries and resignations; clubs and societies; Compassionate Fund; grants; Howard Morley Legacy (1922); membership statistics; Large Hall [cinema] lettings; Chiswick Sports Ground improvements; Robert Mitchell Scholarship; Great Portland Street Extension rebuilding scheme [Little Titchfield Street/Riding House Street building]; leases of buildings.
Magazine for alumni. Cover shows Joost Hunningher seated in a cinema.
Articles include: an introduction from Professor Geoffrey Petts; visit by the Dalai Lama; mentoring scheme; presence in India; supporting students and alumni in China; new 'Learning Platform; at Marylebone Campus; MBA students supporting female entrepreneurship in India; new Deans for SABE and WBS; alumna Hannah Clayton redesigns Butlins uniform; Construction graduate Samantha Hallam received Worshipful Company of Constructors prize; mercury nomination for Michael Kiwanuka; David Bellinger wins the 2011 Voorhees-Large prize for his dissertation 'Bunching behaviour in London Buses'; Alumni reception in Ambika P3; Reunion of engineering students from PCL; London cable car; reunion of first BA-level Graphic Information Design students from Harrow in new Alumni room; Political Cartoon of the Year 2011 prize for Ben Jennings; Best Foreign Film prize at the Student Academy Awards for 'For Elsie'; London Fashion week; FANS - Friends of Arriving New Students; Dr Md Asaduzzaman is finalist in the Operational research (OR) Society PhD Prize 201; research on long-term back pain; new Graduate School; Olympic Broadcast coverage; Corinna Lawrence competes in London 2012 Olympics; publication of 'An Education In Sport'; paralympian Tim Prendergast trains at Westminster; Jason Hawkes image used for cover of National Geographic magazine; Regent Street Cinema campaign; launch of Robert Mitchell Society; legacies; celebrating 10 years of the Scholarship programme; interview with alumni in the Film industry including John Ward, Joost Hunningher, Anand Tucker, Edward Fletcher, Paul Trijbits, Cenay Said; interview with Jon Ronson by archivist Anna McNally; Ann Marie Smith's experience of mentoring Erlinda Tare [photograph]; Charlotte Cross on the British Forces Broadcasting Service (BFBS); news from Alumni and memories of their time at the Regent Street Polytechnic, Polytechnic of Central London or Harrow College and University of Westminster. Also includes images from the Archives.
Small photograph showing a fencing match taking place outdoors, with men and women watching.
Annotated on reverse 'Chiswick'.
Found in an envelope labelled 'Fencers'
Photograph showing men and women wearing fencing kit, chatting outdoors.
Annotated on reverse 'Chiswick'.
Found in an envelope labelled 'Fencers'
Small photograph showing a fencing match taking place indoors, with men and women watching. There is a star-shaped [light] hanging overhead.
Annotated on reverse 'Chiswick'.
Found in an envelope labelled 'Fencers'
Photograph showing a group of ten women and four men posing in front of a large union flag. All of the women are wearing fencing clothes, and one of the men.
Annotated on reverse 'Chiswick' and with the names 'W Speakerman, Prof Morell, W Games, R Ratman' and 'Poly Ladies, men Instructors'.
Found in an envelope labelled 'Fencers'
Photograph showing two women in fencing kit, holding their masks and foils, outdoors.
Annotated on reverse 'Chiswick' and 'Sports day' with the names 'Marion Taylor, Gwyneth Dewer (my Aunt)'.
Found in an envelope labelled 'Fencers'