Churchill College
The Churchill College archive contains material from and about every aspect of life at Churchill College, including administrative, student life, photographic and some artefacts. Highlights here include video from long-running series held by the College, and Oral History interviews from various people associated with the College.
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Oral History: John Mapes
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Reference Code : - CCRF/141/30/20
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Date : - 2022-01-17 (creation)
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Description : - The interview covers the following: early education; coming to Churchill; life in College; personalities; study and research; sports and social life; attitudes towards the College in the 1960s; College ethos; later career
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Collection : - Official Archive of Churchill College
Oral History: Hugh Davies
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Reference Code : - CCRF/141/30/19
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Date : - 2021-10-26 (creation)
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Description : - The interviews cover the following: early education; coming to Churchill; life in College; personalities; study and research; sports and social life; attitudes towards the College in the 1960s; College ethos; later careers.
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Collection : - Official Archive of Churchill College
Recording 2
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Reference Code : - CCRF/141/59/2
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Date : - 2021-04-06 (creation)
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Description : - Interview includes: Dramatics at Churchill College; 'Pablo Naruda' (1973); Henry IV Part I (1975); 'The Resistable rise of Arturo Ui' (1974); performing 'The Trials of Brother Jero' in Nigeria (1976-7); Akin Euba's 'Chaka' (2000); Centre for Intercultural Musicology and 'Musical Mosaic' (2021); Visiting Fellowship scheme; undergraduate tutor (1994-2001); Tutor for Advanced Students [postgraduates] (2001-6); Churchill Fair (1973); draft Heritage Appraisal and Landscape (2000).
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Collection : - Official Archive of Churchill College
Recording 1
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Reference Code : - CCRF/141/59/1
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Date : - 2021-03-23 (creation)
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Description : - Interview includes coming to Churchill College; early GODS; first directing role, teaching in English, and 'Pablo Naruda' (1973) play
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Collection : - Official Archive of Churchill College
BBC Radio Cambridgeshire "Mann in the morning"
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Reference Code : - CCRF/141/31/1
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Date : - 2020-03-05 (creation)
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Description : - Professor Dame Athene Donald joined Chris Mann at BBC Radio Cambridgeshire for the "Big Interview" to talk about gender equality ahead of her Cambridge Science Festival event "50 years is not long enough"
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Collection : - Official Archive of Churchill College
Cambridge 105 Radio, "Roundabout with Tony Barnfield"
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Reference Code : - CCRF/141/31/2
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Date : - 2020-03-08 (creation)
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Description : - 'In this On International Women’s Day edition of "Roundabout with Tony Barnfield", two female contributors to the Cambridge Science Festival this week. Professor Dame Athene Donald (pictured), Master of Churchill College, discusses the acceptance of women in Cambridge Colleges since she graduated in 1971…'
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Collection : - Official Archive of Churchill College
Oral history: Sir David Wallace
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Reference Code : - CCRF/141/55
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Date : - 2019-03-18 (creation)
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Description : - Includes: Appointment to Mastership; Entertaining Scottish-based Alumni; Master’s Lodge: privacy, Dining Room, Visitors’ Book, Lodge Kitchen & fire safety; First Term (MT06); Mary Soames, Tony Kelly and smoking ban; Master’s Private Garden; College Feasts, Dining in College, hospitality; Hanging Committee; Wine Committee; Daughter’s Wedding; Sheppard Flats; Chairing Meetings; Charity Status; Officers; Role of the Master; Interest in Gardening; Sir Winston Churchill Border; Frank Maine’s Orchid House; Metasequoia; Xiaotian Fu Garden; The Churchill Rose; Wildlife Corridor and Mushrooms
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Collection : - Official Archive of Churchill College
Oral history: Anny King
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Reference Code : - CCRF/141/57
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Date : - 2019-06-18 (creation)
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Description : - Includes: Becoming a Fellow; first impressions (people, architecture, gardens); interaction with committees and staff; role of staff in pastoral care of students; Higher Education Role Analysis (HERA); Moller Institute; Editorship of 'Churchill Review'; resignation from College Council; students and alcohol; College support during illness; nurturing students, the Tutorial Committee and mental health; language projects in College; French Government Fellowship; women in the Fellowship and in the University; conduct of Governing Body meetings.
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Collection : - Official Archive of Churchill College
Oral history: Archie Howie
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Reference Code : - CCRF/141/56
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Date : - 2019-06-26 (creation)
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Description : -
Includes: (At end) Prof Howie reading two of his poems: ‘The Biological Journeys of Richard Keynes’ and ‘Fine Cooking and Gluttony’. Also included: Appointment to Churchill and Junior Research Fellowships; Governing Body meetings, Admission to Fellowship and Founder Fellows; Sir John Cockcroft, Building and Visiting Fellowships; Death of the Founder; John Morrison; Appointment of Fellows; Major-General Hamilton; Chapel Controversy and John Killen; College Council; Committees set up to consider the Admission of Women; Appointment as Dean; Women at High Table; Ladies’ Evenings; Events for wives of Fellows; Sir Edward Bullard and Mastership Elections; Sir Hermann Bondi; Lord Broers; President of the SCR and the participation of Fellows; Special Events and ‘Howie’ Poems; Richard Hey;
Visiting Fellowship Scheme and First French Government Fellow; Denys Armstrong and the Building of the College.
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Collection : - Official Archive of Churchill College
Oral history: Judith Rolfe
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Reference Code : - CCRF/141/58
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Date : - 2019-06-07 (creation)
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Description : - Judith Rolfe (nee Harland), a newly-qualified architect, took up a position at Sheppard Robson and in c. 1962 worked on some of the detailed design drawings for the College. This is a recording of a walk around the College with Judith Rolfe and Professor Mark Goldie in 2019 and includes Mark's detailed commentary on the buildings and changes over the years. There are some references to Richard Sheppard and Bill Mullins under whose direction Judith worked.
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Collection : - Official Archive of Churchill College
Oral history: Norman Villis
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Reference Code : - CCRF/141/54
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Date : - 2018-08-09 (creation)
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Description : - Includes: The Churchill Oak; Apple Trees in front of Master’s Lodge; Churchill Mulberry; Metasequoia glyptostroboides; Student Gardeners; John Gilmour and the development of the University Botanic Garden; Bob Younger and the Rock Garden (Cambridge Botanics); Early Career; Change in Churchill landscape; Search for Geranium ‘Winston Churchill’.
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Collection : - Official Archive of Churchill College
Oral history: Marcial Echenique
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Reference Code : - CCRF/141/52
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Date : - 2018-06-08 (creation)
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Description : - Includes: First impressions; attraction of buildings to architecture students; College policy on buying houses along Storey’s Way; Projects designed by Marcial Echenique; Buttery Extension; Appointment of College Architect; Extension to Fellows’ Corridor; Study Centre/Music Rooms Extension; Moller Centre, first Development Director and Moller designs; Henning Larsen; Archives Centre Extension; Postgraduate Village; Cowan Court; Changes and the Buildings/Estates Committee; Dick Tizard; Bill Mullins, Richard Sheppard; growing importance of Service Road and plans for future; Maintaining integrity of design and adapting to new requirements
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Collection : - Official Archive of Churchill College
Oral history: Sir John Boyd
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Reference Code : - CCRF/141/53
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Date : - 2018-06-22 (creation)
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Description : - Appointment to Mastership; Mastership interviewing process; The Fellowship, inc. Frank Hahn, Dick Tizard, and Boping Yuan; former Masters - Hawthorne, Bondi and Broers; Comparison with Embassy in Japan; Music, the ‘Hill’ colleges and the Colleges’ Committee; Modern Languages; Oriental Garden; the Master’s Lodge; Students; Relocation of office to Admin Corridor; Objectives as Master; Appointment of Director of the Moller Centre; Appointment of Vice-Chancellor; Visit of Speaker of the House of Commons (Betty Boothroyd); Workload; Student Disciplinary Appeals and Behaviour; Henry Moore; ‘Chaka’ and Akin Euba; Master’s Portrait; Vertical contact, integration and internationalism; Julia Boyd and her book ‘Travellers in the Third Reich’ (2017). Includes some references to staff members.
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Collection : - Official Archive of Churchill College
Oral History: Mark Haywood
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Reference Code : - CCRF/141/49
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Date : - 2018-01-17 (creation)
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Description : - Includes: 35 Hampstead Lane; Haywood family; Dick Sheppard; Olga Périon; Divorce; 65 Hillgate Place; Notting Hill Gate; Beltane School; Bracknell New Town; other Haywood Projects; Burglary; Gardens of the Mughal; art collection; Working in a man’s world; John Haywood’s other wives; Weddings 1960 and 1961; 70th Birthday Party; Later years; Bill Mullins; Africa
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Collection : - Official Archive of Churchill College
Oral History: Mary Broers
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Reference Code : - CCRF/141/45
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Date : - 2017-03-18 (creation)
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Description : - Includes: First impressions and Master's Lodge; first dog to live in Churchill College and dogs generally; Master's Garden; Visitors to the Master's Lodge; Hanging Committee, Maisonneuve Collection and Duncan Grant painting; Joseph Carberry and Evelyn Walker; Thanksgiving; Women at Trinity and Churchill; Security in the Master's Lodge; Moller Centre
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Collection : - Official Archive of Churchill College
Oral History: Philippa Comber
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Reference Code : - CCRF/141/30/14
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Date : - 2017 (creation)
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Description : - Early life and training; applying for post of Counsellor; extensive interview process; reactions to new post; difficulties faced as a woman; Barrie Hesketh; Role of Chaplain v. Counsellor; Boundaries
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Collection : - Official Archive of Churchill College
Oral History: Xiaotian Fu
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Reference Code : - CCRF/141/48
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Date : - 2017-10-05 (creation)
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Description : - Includes: First impressions; community; Japanese (Oriental-themed) garden in Master's Lodge; gift to the College; the importance of gardens; the stones - 'Reading Gal' and 'The Screen'; first impressions of structure of new Xiaotian Fu Garden; hopes and aspirations for the garden.
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Collection : - Official Archive of Churchill College
Oral History: Doug Ashman
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Reference Code : - CCRF/141/20/2
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Date : - 2017-07 (creation)
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Description : - Includes: previous employment: The Leys School, Cambridge University Rugby & Football Ground, Newnham College; Churchill in 1961; cricket square; Groundsmen’s Association; training; drainage; It’s a Knock Out!; Librarian; Staff Social Club; buttery pool; first computers in College; lime trees and Møller Centre; equipment; hostel gardens, oak and mulberry trees; Mentions: M Postgate; B Shorthouse; Major-General Hamilton; George Orr; Ralph Thoday; Lord Butler; Tom Hitchens; Graham Pledger; Albert Hayward; Tim the Gardener; Duke of Edinburgh; Hywel George; Peter Hunt; Mary Broers and dog; Albert Richmond; Anne Hammerton; Les Smith; Sid Brown
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Collection : - Official Archive of Churchill College
Oral History: Alison Finch
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Reference Code : - CCRF/141/46
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Date : - 2017-03-03-2017-06-15 (creation)
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Description : - First interview includes early experiences as a woman Fellow; Sexism in Churchill; Assessment of Research carried out by Women; Move to Oxford and Sexism; Return to Churchill; Discrimination and the Pension Scheme; First impression of buildings, gardens and grounds; Sir William Hawthorne; Moller Centre; 25th Anniversary of the Admission of Women 1997; Appointment as Vice-Master; Editor of the Review; College Council and doing work for the College; Tension between academic role and College duties; Admission of Women and Egalitarianism Second interview includes admission of women and sexism.
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Collection : - Official Archive of Churchill College
Oral History: Dr Michael Rycroft
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Reference Code : - CCRF/141/30/10
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Date : - 2017-02-24 (creation)
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Description : - The interviews cover the following: early education; coming to Churchill; life in College; personalities; study and research; sports and social life; attitudes towards the College in the 1960s; College ethos; later careers.
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Collection : - Official Archive of Churchill College
Oral History: Dr Barrie Hesketh
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Reference Code : - CCRF/141/30/15
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Date : - 2017 (creation)
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Description : -
Childhood and School; Early visual awareness: emergence of key artistic interest in the visual field; Leaving home; Actor training, and emerging key area of interest: audience behaviour; Career as an actor; Birth of the Mull Little Theatre; First contact with Churchill College; First Visit to Churchill; Response to Churchill College architecture and design; College life as setting for creative enquiry into audience behaviour; Formal experiment in audience behaviour; Contribution to student theatre: directing The Insect Play, for The Gods; Connecting with Churchill's academic and wider community: walls and bridges; Sir William Hawthorne; C P Snow; Philippa Comber, first College Counsellor; Value of connection with College; The 'playhouse': play as experimentation, in arts and in sciences; Culture shocks: alcohol, sexism – and a way of being a critical friend to the College; Dyslexic in Academia; College life inspires new writing for the stage; Enacts unique improvised counselling session to inform College members about Counsellor's role
Childhood and School; Early visual awareness: emergence of key artistic interest in the visual field; Leaving home; Actor training, and emerging key area of interest: audience behaviour; Career as an actor; Birth of the Mull Little Theatre; First contact with Churchill College; First Visit to Churchill; Response to Churchill College architecture and design; College life as setting for creative enquiry into audience behaviour; Formal experiment in audience behaviour; Contribution to student theatre: directing The Insect Play, for The Gods; Connecting with Churchill's academic and wider community: walls and bridges; Sir William Hawthorne; C P Snow; Philippa Comber, first College Counsellor; Value of connection with College; The 'playhouse': play as experimentation, in arts and in sciences; Culture shocks: alcohol, sexism – and a way of being a critical friend to the College; Dyslexic in Academia; College life inspires new writing for the stage; Enacts unique improvised counselling session to inform College members about Counsellor's role
Childhood and School; Early visual awareness: emergence of key artistic interest in the visual field; Leaving home; Actor training, and emerging key area of interest: audience behaviour; Career as an actor; Birth of the Mull Little Theatre; First contact with Churchill College; First Visit to Churchill; Response to Churchill College architecture and design; College life as setting for creative enquiry into audience behaviour; Formal experiment in audience behaviour; Contribution to student theatre: directing The Insect Play, for The Gods; Connecting with Churchill's academic and wider community: walls and bridges; Sir William Hawthorne; C P Snow; Philippa Comber, first College Counsellor; Value of connection with College; The 'playhouse': play as experimentation, in arts and in sciences; Culture shocks: alcohol, sexism – and a way of being a critical friend to the College; Dyslexic in Academia; College life inspires new writing for the stage; Enacts unique improvised counselling session to inform College members about Counsellor's role
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Collection : - Official Archive of Churchill College
Oral History: Michael Thouless
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Reference Code : - CCRF/141/51
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Date : - 2017-10-17 (creation)
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Description : - Includes: Sir William Hawthorne and Magic; Admission to Churchill; Colin Campbell; Jack Miller; John Brunton and Cambridge supervisions; early memories and living in College; croquet lawns; impressions of being student at Churchill; Chapel and appointment of Bryan Spinks; College societies; return to Churchill as an Overseas Fellow; Professor David Thouless; setting Churchill traditions; High Table and wives; Superhall; reputation of the College and Admissions
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Collection : - Official Archive of Churchill College
Oral History: Terry Ambrose
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Reference Code : - CCRF/141/44
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Date : - 2017-04-21 (creation)
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Description : - Includes: work on setting out and manufacture of the teak windows and progression to foreman; Canon Duckworth and first christenings; Wolfson and Sheppard Flats; working conditions on site, Alf Bailey and Lofty Parnell; access road, piling, the mound and general ground conditions; making the concrete beams; copper flashing; style of building; students (and women); Tom Hitchens; Sid Brown; minor incident; asbestos
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Collection : - Official Archive of Churchill College
Recording 4
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Reference Code : - CCRF/141/27/4
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Date : - 2017-03-30 (creation)
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Description : - Covers grounds and gardens: early impressions of site; siting of the College and proposed inner relief road; changes to the front of the College and planting of trees along Storey's Way; Storey's Way houses; admission of women and prickly hedges; private road, tennis courts and Dutch elm disease; changes to Sheila Haywood landscape masterplan; George Orr; William Mullins; unsuitability of site; extremes of weather; new buildings and memorials; daffodils in copse; Sir William Hawthorne's Golf Course; proposed swimming pool and lake; rabbits on mound and Victor Baffa; cricket square; Doug Ashman; Albert Richmond; Daphne Osborne; Edward Craig; Andrew Phillipson
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Collection : - Official Archive of Churchill College
Oral History: Michael Allen
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Reference Code : - CCRF/141/37
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Date : - 2016-08-16 (creation)
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Description : - This interview focuses on the grounds and gardens. Includes: first impressions; the College's brief; Jamie Buchanan and the Moller Centre; landscaping at the front of the College; appointment of Consultant Landscape Architect; Gordon Patterson; Master's Lodge Garden; challenges; Albert Richmond; Doug Ashman; John Moore; Mulberry tree; managing the grounds and gardens department; women working in the department; new Masters and changes to the Master's Lodge garden; Sir John and Lady Boyd; Lord Broers; Recording the history of the gardens
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Collection : - Official Archive of Churchill College