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            Newspaper cutting "Guests of the Polytechnic at Lucerne"
            RSP/9/4/2 · Item · nd [1914-1918]
            Part of Regent Street Polytechnic
            Newspaper cutting picture captioned 'Guests of the Polytechnic at Lucerne', picturing several French and British prisoners of war interned in Switzerland and sent to the hospital at Lucerne. This party was entertained by Mr and Mrs Mitchell at the Polytechnic Chalets, Lucerne. Mrs Mitchell thought to be standing front right.
            Interview with Lionel Price
            Interview with Lionel Price
            OHP/37 · Item · 05-Sep-12
            Part of Oral history programme

            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.
            Interview with Harold Beck
            Interview with Harold Beck
            OHP/38 · Item · 04-Oct-12
            Part of Oral history programme

            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.
            Interview with Mark Fenton
            Interview with Mark Fenton
            OHP/30 · Item · 21-Nov-11
            Part of Oral history programme

            Recording of interview with Mark Fenton, RSP Architecture student c1937-1940, and chair of the Student Council.

            Interviewer: Anna McNally, History Project Archivist

            Discusses: childhood; reasons for joining Polytechnic; career; architecture course - structure, staff, students; Student Council; student life including during World War Two; sport.
            Evacuation Files
            PSS/1/4 · Subseries · 1940-1944
            Part of Polytechnic Secondary School
            Files containing correspondence and official memorandum issued by Government concerning the evacuation of school children during the Second World War.