Identity area
Reference code
JCCA/JCAD/3/CAM/STA/SAL1/3/2
Title
Correspondence file for 1 Salisbury Villas, 1937-1943
Date(s)
- 19 October 1937 - 20 May 1943 (Creation)
Level of description
File
Extent and medium
1 file, paper
Context area
Archival history
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Content and structure area
Scope and content
Includes correspondence regarding:
(1) the lease of the property to children of the Basque region of Spain who were made orphans by the Spanish Civil War;
(2) attempts to find new tenants which proved difficult due the noise from the railway and the internal layout of the building;
(3) a schedule of dilapidations dated December 1939;
(4) negotiations with HM Office of Works over the amount to be spent on repairs and redecoration prior to agreement of a lease;
(5) terms of the lease; permission requested for the erection of Air Raid Shelters in the garden (permission was granted but the College refused to contribute financially);
(6) repairs to glass broken when a bomb exploded near Queen Anne's Terrance