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Includes signed dinner menus for boat club and Rooster events; some informal photographs taken at boat club events; Photograph of 1957 Roosters Jubilee Dinner; Medal from Cambridge University Boat Club Lent Races 1959; Embroidered cockerel from blazer pocket; Degree certificates; Winner of Head of the River 1959 certificate; Copy of Cambridge University Reporter showing award of degree

Includes correspondence relating to Little's work on his book 'English Cathedrals'.

List of attendees at the JCCS Buffet Lunch

Letter to the Jesus College Bursar (B. L. Manning) by Coulson & Son, Ltd confirming receipt of cheque and return of accounts.

Two receipts, one for £4 7s 4d for work carried out around college, including for 31 hours' labour for lowering and regulating height of Hall tables; examining where smoke got into Mr Parkinson's rooms and stopping it from happening (including cost of cement and joiners'/masons' time); specially-made chimney pots for kitchen (including time and materials); cost of men's time taking off chimney pots, north wing for order100 bricks, 10 hods of mortar, and 1 peck of plaster.
Second receipt is for work done by the same firm in chapel, for a pair of polished brass candle joiners and the cost of fixing them in place; recovering kneeling stools (including time and materials); cost of time spent repairing bell ropes. Total cost £4 8s 6d.

Paid to John Turner for work done in College. Signed by John Turner.

Paid to John Turner for work done in College, including payments for stripping of tiling and taking down coal place and cleaning of bricks, ale, bricklayers, labourers, making float barrel drain and making good the pavement, mortar, sand, taking down shoe place, cinder place and Willis' coal place, for stripping of tiling and taking down stable, sedge place and coach house, cleaning of privy, taking down Mr. Beaver's chimney and contracting of it into the new and stopping up beam holes and cleaning bricks, for digging foundations for coal places and out offices and laying floors and plastering and lime washing out offices, lime, taking down the old stack of chimneys and cleaning bricks and contracting of them and making good parapet wall, pantiling coalhouse, digging of foundations to the new buildings, extra brickwork to the foundations, extra flus to the chimney adjoining the old building and stopping up window, for laying a brick floor in the out offices.

Paid £6 17s ½d to Henry Webb for work done at Hundon parsonage. Includes payments for men and their labour, repairing under pinion, bushels of lime, red bricks, 26 yards of plastering, 14 bunches of lathe, 3000 lathe nails, whitewashing, plain tiles, repairing tiles, roof tiles, repairing walls, repairing chimney, repairing woarls to house, bushels of hair, repairing tiling in chancel. Signed by Webb.

Paid to Rattee and Kett for work done on the SCR, including payments for new plaster ceiling in SCR and taking down old reed ceiling, repair lock and filling new key, taking off shutters and rehanging them, shortening entrance door and fitting new cill piece, repair jamb linings, taking out panel gyp room and making good, fixing a bell pull, one new Gibbons lock furniture ofr gyp room door, one new Gibbons mortice lock for Hall door, parquet floor, levelling old floor, repairing woodwork of firescreen and covering screen with silk.

Paid to John Turner for work done in College, including payments for building of out offices near new buildings (K staircase), sinking dunghill and in vault, bricklayer, labourers, mending whitning and colouring staircases, glue, lathe, nails, measurement to building of circular wall back wall and dung hill and foundation to coachhouse, bricks, pantiling the sedge place, brickneying privies, plastering and laying floors, brickmortar, hairmortar, preparing chimneys, whitning priveys, mending floor carper and stoves in kitchen, fire bricks, raising a wall and laying floors in the Master's coachhouse, making drains and moving pump, paving walks, filling up cesspool, bushels of stones, glassing walls, sand, 24lb of paint from Turner and Son, boiled oil, making a cesspool, drain and cleaning out the old cesspool, paid to Robinson, fixing the smoke disperser, fixing the window in Mr. Hustler's room, preparing stove in the Hall, cobwebbing chapel, making good a frame at Mr. Gee's house on Jesus Lane. Signed by John Turner.

Paid £4 8s for work done at Hundon Parsonage by the order of Mr R. F. Cuthbert. Includes payments for repairing works, nails, repairing under pinion, bushels of lime, red bricks, repairing tiling on house, roof tiles, repairing tiling and other jobs, tiles, bushels of hair, pantiles, laying wallem, pairs of gull bricks, whitewashing barn, repairing tiling on the chancel, brick mortar.

Paid to Rattee and Kett for work done, including payments for removing old marble chimney piece and fixing a new one, removing and rehanging old windows with new gut lines and new lead weights.

Paid £19 18s 3d to J. Turner for work done in the Chapel, Courts, Buttery and Lodge from 1828-1829.
Chapel: plastering, bricklayers' and labourers' work, cobwebbing, work done at the kitchen, cleaning, etc.
Courts: glazing walls, plastering the stables, sand, whitewashing and painting at the stables, paint and oil, repairing Mr. Humphrey's wall, repairing plastering in cloisters, whitewashing, colouring and mending part of cloisters, digging hole and making good the vault, repairing chimneys etc.
Buttery: making good the steps, hooding chimney, bricklayers' and labourers' work, glue, etc.
Lodge: repairing range, making drains, whitewashing and mending ceilings, whitewashing, colouring and mending rooms, whitewashing kitchen and pantry, bricks and labourers, nails, mending plastering in laundry and hall, stopping rat holes, plastering in stables, etc.
Signed J. Turner

Paid £54 14s 11d for work done at Jesus College.

Paid £54 14s 11d to John Turner and Son for work done in College. Including:

Courts - preparing and downing well in stable yard, 200 building bricks, mortar, repairing and plastering in cloisters and floor in cow lane, bricklayer and labourer, bricks, mortar, cleaning cesspool and drains and making good paving, sand, 1 load of sand for the porter, repairing garden walls and roofing in shed for wheelbarrow, 60 pantiles, pantile lathe and nails, brick mortar, blue mortar, hair mortar, repairing and glassing walls, old tiles, cleaning drain and cesspool form kitchen, cutting door opening in garden wall and making good, repairing plastering, washing whitewashing and colouring in cloisters, plaster of Paris, glue, repairing pantiling to stables, repairing and whitewashing fellows out offices in garden, repairing paving etc, 3 loads of sand for the gardener, repairing and whitewashing lads out office, emptying vault to servants out offices and making good floor, whitewashing etc, whitewashing and repairing fellows out offices, washing and whitewashing and colouring passage leading to Fellows garden, whitewashing and colouring gateway, cleaning and colouring brickwork outside cloisters, colouring and size, clearing cesspool and glassing walls, use of scaffolding and waste of poles and labour for the commencement.

Buttery - whitewashing and repairing buttery and pantry

Kitchen - repairing brickwork to oven, preparing and cleaning flues to oven and larder, repairing furnaces to stoves and coppers, whitewashing colouring kitchen and larder, plain tiles, lathe and nails, plaster of Paris, fixing new stewing stoves, 500 building bricks, 50 floor bricks

Hall - Cobwebbing, washing window jambs

Chapel - pointing window after plumbers, mortar and cement

Master's Lodge - cutting holes in drawing room chimney, repairing tiling and plastering to knife place, 6 pantiles, lathe and nails, mortar whitening, refixing stone in dung hole, washing scraping and repairing bedrooms for paper hangers, whitewashing ceilings, plaster, cement, whitning, glue, repairing top of chimney and cleaning chimney pot, cleaning oven and making good, painting to skirting (scurting) in staircase, downing well bricking cesspool and making good floor, cutting away for water closet, lathe and plastering water closet, bedroom etc, 950 bricks, w8 six inch gutters, 8 bunches of fir lathe and nails, cement, hairmortar brickmortar and fine, whitewashing and colouring butlers pantry other pantries and passage etc lemon colouring, making new bedroom adjoining laundry, whitewashing laundry hall and passage, alteration to out office in garden to water closet, 250 bricks mortar, emptying 2 vaults, whitewashing repairing kitchen scullery pantry staircase out offices and repairing kitchen floor, lime, cutting in lintel to garden gate, paving stone path to front gate, fixing iron plate to hot hearth.

Paid £105 12s to John Turner for work in College. Includes payments for repairing and plastering Cow Lane, loads of sand, repairing wall under iron palisade, bricks, bill delivered for lecture room, cleaning out ditch next common, repairing pantiling, plastering and flooring, bricks, pantiles, hairmortar, sand and lime, taking down plastering and repairing wall for cement in cloister, old plain tiles, cement, taken down plastering and repairing wall for cement in lobby, painting, whitewashing and colouring M staircase, 12 gyp rooms and entrance, B staircase repairing whitewashing, C staircase repairing, J staircase repairing whitewashing and colouring, K staircase repairing whitewashing and colouring, cleaning drains and cesspool repairing paving, repairing chimneys and cleaning gutters, . Also

Mr. Rackham's room - whitewashing ceiling and repairing plastering for paper, 1 day bricklayer and labourer, whitning plaster and glue

Mr. Gaskell's room - whitewashing ceilings, building chimney, repairing plastering etc, 2 days labourer and bricklayer, 800 building bricks, mortar, chimney pot, whitening plaster and glue.

Mr. Dix's room - whitewashing ceilings

Kitchen - cleaning oven, repairing kitchen coppers, stoves, oven and whitewashing and colouring etc, bricklayer and labourer, fire bricks, building bricks, brickmortar, hairmortar, plaster, cement, whitning, colour and glue

Chapel - cobwebbing, bricklayer and labourer, repairing outside for cement, mortar, tiles and bricks, cement

Buttery - repairing and whitewashing buttery, pantry etc, bricklayer and labourer, whitning mortar, glue etc

Estates - making cesspool for New Square, bricklayer and labourer, bricks, mortar. Rhadegund Buildings taken down gates and posts and carrying away two sets, brickwork to corners

Cottages in Close - underpinning to side of old dung hole, rebuilding garden wall to cottages, extra foundation to cottages, brickwork for sleepers to board floors and making drains etc, bricklayer and labourer, mortar and bricks, chimney pots and fixing, taking down and rebuilding dung hole and out office, brickmortar, lathe and nails, pantiles, hairmortar, labourer making board.

Cottages on Manor Street - chimney pots and fixing

Master's Lodge - repairing ceiling on staircase, bricklayer and labourer, mortar, plaster, whitewashing ceilings, whitewashing ceiling and repairing for paper, plaster, whitning, whitewashing and colouring pantry, colouring and plaster, repairing brick dais for water tubs, bricks, whitewashing and colouring butlers pantry and room adjoining, glue, repairing wall in garden, old bricks, whitewashing kitchen, whitewashing best room ceilings, repaired stoves in bedrooms, refixing stove in pantry, whitewashing and repairing staircases hall laundry pantry cupboards etc, fire bricks, colouring and whitewashing stable, lathe, nails, extra foundation to new coach house, clearing away wood, limewashing coach house, taken down coal house and clearing bricks etc, building coal house, store house, harness house, dung hole and making cesspool drains, repairing slating, 3000 building bricks, brick mortar, hair mortar, pantiles, plain tiles, , bunch of fir lathe and nails, load of sand, lime, paving in front of coach house gates etc, repairing sink in scullery, paving slabs (pavens) cement, paving at back of coal place.

Carpentry work - labour and materials to:
Staircase H room 1 fitting a shutter.
Staircase H room 4 new window seat,
New Building Mr Constable and Merry's rooms repairing doors and boarding.
Staircase B room 6 repairing floor.
Staircase M room 1 dado and skirting.
Staircase M room 2 dado and skirting.
Staircase K room 1 repairs to window frame and sash.
Mr Stanley's room easing door.
Cow Lane room 3 work on doors.
Total £9 5s 10d
Receipt [pinned] of 8th July 1839.

Paid £2 and £18 19s 8d to John Turner of Howell and Eaden for building work done in College. Includes payments for prepairing kitchen oven and cupboard (copred), bricks, tiles, lime, fire bricks, brick mortar, hair mortar, mending fire place in porters lodge, glassing back walls, preparing the walls against the Close gates, bricking and paving borders and moving stones and gravel, bricks and 6 nine inch patterns, attending Mr. Willis' garden wall, mending cloisters and cleaning and sanding court, hair mortar and fine stuff, sacks of sand, pointing stones with cement at the top of the College, 2 bushels of cement, painting fence and gates in the Close, 60lb of coarse brown paint, mending chimney etc, cobwebbing Chapel, mortar that the stone masons had for the gas work, making good drains etc, making good paving in Chapel and in court after gas work, ten nine inch pavens, whitewashing and painting pantry in the buttery after sweeps and whitewashing privys, whitening, glue, whitewashing staircase ceiling, cleaning drains. Also work done at the Master's Lodge including mending chimney and fixing pot, bricks, tiles, brick mortar, hair mortar, chimney pot, emptying cesspool in garden, mortar, making drain from the cesspool, 150 bricks, 50 tiles, whitewashing, mending and colouring, whitening, glue, colouring, fire and paving bricks, pulling down and fixing copes, tiles, bricks.

Paid J. Tuner (bricklayer) the sum of £46 9s 3d.
Bill 1: Cleaning vault to Lads' priveys - 2 days' labour digging hole, 4 men 3 nights' work, bread and cheese, candles, digging other holes & fitting up. £7 17s 6d.
Bill 2: Work done on the Lodge - making glue, bricklayers' labour, repairing stove, whitewashing and mending kitchen, making good floor to coal place. £2 19s 7d.
Bill 3: Work done to the Courts - glassing and mending walls, replacing rat holes, bricklayers' labour, bricks and sand, chimney, cement tiles, replacing staircase, cleaning drains, making good vault to lads privey, whitewashing and mending lads privey. £18 18s 6d.
Work done in Buttery - whitewashing and mending plastering, 1/2 day bricklayers' labour, mortar whitening and glue. 5s 3d.
To repairing Chapple - 32 1/2 days bricklayers' labour, 9 days extry labour, mortar, cement, nails. £15 10s 9d.
To work done at Kitchen - to whitewashing, colouring and pulling down and refixing coppers & stewing stoves and ovens, 10 days' bricklayers labour, building bricks, fire bricks, tiles, mortar, lime, whitening, glue. Signed J Willis (cook). £7 9s 8d.
To repairing stables - repairing tiling and making good chimney, 3 days' bricklayers labour, mortar and tiles etc. £1 5s 6d.

Paid £3 17s 7d to Henry Webb for building work done at Hundon parsonage and chancel. Includes payments for whitewashing and rendering chancel, work stuff and lime, pointing up the windows, pairing warts, bushels of lime, bushels of hair, a bundle of rough cast lathe, nails, topping chimney, labour, red bricks, pairing tiling, plain tiles, roof tiles, pairing under pinion, pair of feet bricks, pointing up windows, pairing tiles on chancel, tiles.

Inserted receipt from John Turner for work totalling £54 18s 8d.

Turner's bill gives an extensive list of work done in College including:

Courts:
Repairing out places in backyard, bricks and mortar, repairing chimneys, raising coal house wall, whitening and work on out offices, pointing windows after plumber (latter possibly re. lead work of windows), cobwebbing chapel,
Likely to be Cloister:
Replacing wall, scrubbing wall and bricking up windows ready for compo (stucco or cement) . Bricklaying and labour, bricks, mortar, tiles, compo.
Cost of compo-ing cloister was £21-00-00.
Pump Staircase:
Replacing, whitening and colouring, 'brickl' (bricklaying), lath.
Cow Lane Staircase:
Replacing, whitening and colouring, plaster, lath, nails, bricks, bricklaying.
Cloister and Tower:
Cleaning for plaster (ing), mending the cloister, colouring, repairing the tower and pointing after,
plaster, compo.
Kitchen:
Repairing copper ovens and stoves.
General:
Bricklaying, cleaning drains, sand.
Gateway:
Pointing, compo, mortar.
Fellows garden:
Repairing wall, bricks, mortar.
General:
Cleaning gutters and leads (roof gutters?).
Load of sand (?) for the courts.
Emptying out offices and making good.
Sum written on opposite page £54 18s 8d
Lodge Account:
Repairing a wall. Bricklaying and labour, compo, mortar, bricks.
Cleaning a flue and oven, (word unclear). Repairing a hearth. Bricklaying, labour, firebricks.
Cloisters:
Repairing wall. Bricklaying and labour.
Mending in floor in pantry (?)
Repairing coppers and well. Bricklaying and labour, bricks, mortar, hair, 12 firebricks.
Likely to be Kitchen:
Raising chimney to for a new smoke jack (spit). Bricklaying and labour. Bricks, mortar, 'hair mortar'.
Kitchen:
Whitening, pointing. Bricks and labour.

For building a wall in front of the house.

Receipt addressed to Master & Fellows, Jesus College, Cambridge
For accounts dating from October 1920 to September 1921

Sheet 1: Summary of Accounts with final total (£346; 0s; 10d)
Sheet 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7: Detailed list of General Accounts to a total of (£156; 1s; 11d)
Sheet 8: Detailed list of Fellow's Houses Account to a total of (£70; 13s; 10d)
Sheet 9: Detailed list of Steward's Account to a total of (£113; 6s; 10d)
Sheet 10: List of Tutor's Account to a total of (16s; 8d)
Sheet 11: List of Chapel Account to a total of (£1; 4s; 1d)

Receipt addressed to Mrs. Bakewell for 16s for repairing burst pipe with a new pipe and repairing stop cock. Notice of payment on March 30th 1926.

Receipt from John Gray & Son, builders, for erecting new College Farm buildings, as per estimate. Cost of work comes to £1050 and includes: excavating extra depths of foundations to stables, hen-house, and cart stables and wheeling concrete there; rails for hay rack; partition and sliding door with grooved rails and shaped handle for chaff-house at end of cart stable; elm boarding for base of partition; gate in wall near end of barn; oak posts; pair of hooks and bands; wrot (and cost of fixing); 1 bolt with hasp and 4 staples (and cost of fixing); painting gate and posts; rough framed ledges and braced gate; feather edge to fence with canted deal rails; fence at front of house in yard with oak post, deal rails and 30 pallisades (including 22 hours' worth of carpenter's wages); fence facing street and front of house (same materials, 60 hours' work); repairs to dove house; repairs to roof of stables and harness house (incl. costs of materials and labour). Credit by omissions: glazed pipe draining to ditch, brick boundary between piggery and implement shed; stall divisions in cart horse stable. Signed off by R. Reynolds Rowe (college architect and surveyor).

Receipt to Elmstead Church Wardens from R. Burgess Smith, Wheelwright, Carpenter, Decorator etc., Elmstead Market, Essex.

For cleaning and repairing of floor £9

Paid on 20th September 1921

Receipt to Elmstead Church Wardens from R. Burgess Smith, Wheelwright, Carpenter, Decorator etc., Elmstead Market, Essex.

For repairing and painting of Elmstead Parish Church £7; 10s 6d

Paid on 6th October 1921

Receipt in regards to work by Arthur Negus & Sons for repairs on Woodville, Hills Road

Total: £5; 12s; 8d

Invoice and attached Receipt for £1 9s 6d for piecing out 10ft of 1/2 inch lead supply and repairing burst pipes and repairing ball valve. Invoice dated April 15th 1926 addressed to Miss Reynolds, 51 Hills Road Cambridge.

Receipt of payment of £1 10s paid to C.R. Rich for repairs work at 28 Station Road.

Certificate acknowledging that £500 is owed to Mr Arthur John Gray, builder, for rebuilding the college farm at Over. Memorandum of account reiterates the contract amount of £1050. Received of the Master of Jesus College and signed by Mr Gray.

Receipt in regards to work by Coulson & Son, Ltd.
Total: £3; 7s; 6d

Letters from the Vicar reporting the decision of the parish in December 1905 to build a Mission Church in the village, for the benefit of the inhabitants of Elmstead Heath, who are two-and-a-half miles from the old church. The parish has raised over £500, and is appealing for grants from the Church Building Society etc. The file includes two balance sheets, one 1906-09, and one 1906-11

Letters and papers

Parties: (1) Jesus College, (2) Mr Charles Armstrong. Building agreement as to land in the parish of St Andrew the Less. Includes a plan showing the outline of 3 areas of land

Parties: (1) Jesus College, (2) Mrs Louisa Bedwell.

Building agreement as to land in the Parish of St Andrew the Less. Includes a plan showing the outline of the property.

Correspondence between Arthur John Gray and the College concerning the terms of his building lease for various plots of land along Hills Road. Also draft of the agreement and Counsel's opinion

Richard Plowwryghte, carpenter of Trumpington, bound in £20 to John Pilate. Condition: Plowwryghte is to erect and complete satisfactorily before the feast of St. Peter ad Vincula (1 August) next following 8 rooms on a site in All Saints' parish at the end of Nunnes Lane, abutting on the highway, each room to be 15ft wide and to have a door and 2 windows. Sparre to be used not less than 2d value. Payment of £5 2s 6d to be received for labour and timber, paid in 3 instalments. Witnesses: John Stokton, John Tanquer, Edmund Peper et aliis.

£27 1s. 0d. Lodge account: Bricking arch over well in the garden, upholster staircase, painting, whitewashing kitchen. Work done to rooms: draping, upholstering, whitewashing and ceilings of various rooms in College

Paid £47 18s 4d to Joseph Waterhall for materials and work done in Cloister Court, including:

• recasting of old lead
• solder
• wages paid to men
• new lead
• additional assistance
• repairing the head of a pipe

Paid 14s 6d to Joseph Waterhall for work done at the Master's Lodge. Work done over 2 years, between 1814 and 1816, where squares of glass were fitted on 4 occasions

Paid £60 5s 3d to Joseph Waterhall for materials and work done in Cloister Court, including:

• recasting of old lead
• solder
• wages paid to men
• coals
• work done in the kitchen
• nails, paper and time

Paid £308 1s to Webster for work done building cottages in front of the Fellows stables, including payments for erecting cottages, extra between deal floors and 9 inch pavements, labour to circular corner of brickwork, painting chimney pots, to erecting a coach house for the Master and fence walls to the stable yard as per estimate, extras, oak stop for the carriage laid in coach house floor, building bricks on edge floor instead of the same laid flat. Receipts signed by Webster.

Paid £39 9s 5 1/2d to John Goode and Son for new balcony lodge

Paid to Briant Coulson Carpenter of Barnwell for jobs and materials including picketing fences, spikes and nails, joints. making a new door, repairing fences, spikes and nails for repairing fences, curing the pump in the kitchen, repairing the great gates in the lane, making a new door for the toilet (necessary), nails, a ladder, repairs in the buttery, repairing the stairs, mending buckets, repairing the grove fences, sawing and rending billets, spikes and nails, hewing and sawing battens, work to the grove gate, tent hooks, getting wood in the store house, cross cutting and rending billets, getting billets in, making posts, putting down landmarks, taking up the stank in the ditch, making a new window frame for the larder, putting up new knife boards and repairing doors, planks for new knife boards, putting down a new floor using oak boards, a new Madick steel, repairing Jordan's pump, repairing staircases, casing the pump in the kitchen and repairs to the buttery. Signed by Briant Coulson