The Ash Museum by Rebecca Smith -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Title Copyright Making the most of your visit 1940s

Wooden Tennis Racket – some strings broken (c. 1930s)

1970s

Child’s Fancy Dress Outfit – Native American (c. 1974) Programme for a Surrey Village Fête (1974) Ladybird Book Flight Four: India – School Library Copy (First Published 1960) Breast Feather from a White Goose (c. mid-1970s) Lists Made by a Nine-year-old Girl (c. 1976) Middle School Report for a Ten-year-old Girl, England (4 July 1977) Postcard of Prussia Cove (Postmarked 7 August 1977) Tammy, Jinty and Judy Comics (Dated Mid- to Late 1970s)

1910s

Fragment of Bone – Probably Herbivore. Origin Uncertain (Found Saskatchewan, Canada 1911) A Cabinet Used by a Child for ‘Treasures’ and ‘Things Lost and Found’ – Victorian Apprentice Piece 1913 Pocket Diary with Notes Written in Pencil, Approx. 3 ½ inches x 2 ½ inches

Late 1970s

Secondary School Class Photo (c. 1978)

1980s

Brown Leather Lace-up School Shoes (c. 1980) Pifco Princess Box (Manufactured Early 1970s)

Late 1920s – EARLY 1930s

Three Postcards Sent from a Young Man to His Mother Letter Sent by a Newly Arrived Tea Garden Manager to His Family (1933)

1930s

Photograph of Some Indian Dancers (Mid- to Late 1930s) Fragments of Broken China, Various Origins (Mostly 19th and Early 20th Century) Letter from a Mother to Her Daughter. Posted from India to England (1938)

1940s

Green-and-Yellow Patterned Cotton Dupatta of Inexpensive Fabric (c. 1940s) Wooden Toy Truck of Simple Design (c. Early 1940s) A Black Leather Trunk, Measuring 6’ by 2’6’ by 2’6’ (c. Late 1920s) WWII Telegram Giving News of a Captain in the Assam Regiment (April 1944) Yellow Velvet Chair-backs Embroidered with a Design of Trees and Tropical Fauna (Mid-1940s) Obituary from a Prep School Magazine (1944) White China Bowl of Low Quality – Broken (Manufactured c. 1930s) Letter Sent from a Children’s Home in Northwest India to a Sponsor Family in England (c. 1945) Wicker Sewing Basket – Empty (Mid-20th Century) Hand-knitted Grey Pullover for a Young Boy (c. Mid-1940s) Article cut from The Times (November 1948) Walkers Shortbread Biscuit Tin – Tartan Design (c. Late 1940s to Early 1950s)

1980s

Cut-out Doll – ‘Indra’, a Girl from India (Kit Produced Mid-1970s) School Library Copy of Pride and Prejudice with Bookplate Listing Pupils’ Names Dating Back to 1963 School Disco Ticket (Summer 1981) O Level Physics Homework, Fifth Year – duplicated sheet, some fading (1981) VHS Player (c. 1982)

1960s

Blue-and-White-Striped Polyester Tie (c. Mid-1960s)

1980s

Penguin Classics Copy of Wuthering Heights (c. 1984) Blue-Striped Indian Cotton Bedspread (c. 1980s) InterRail Pass (Summer 1986) Replica WWII Flying Jacket – Brown Leather (c. 1986)

1950s

Cinema Tickets for South Pacific (April 1958) Copy of The Radiation Cookery Book: A Selection of Proved Recipes for Use with Regulo New World Gas Cookers, 19th Edition (1936)

1990s

Invitation to a University Reunion on Cream-coloured Cardboard, with Envelope Bearing a Second Class Postage Stamp (1998) Fragment of Playlist for Alumni Reunion Meeting (Summer 1998) Atlas of the World (c. 1920) Woman’s Hair in a Plait, Romsey Abbey, Hampshire (c. 10th Century)

2000s

Collection of Lost Bookmarks (Pre-2008) Pair of 19th-Century Dutch Glass Vases – Exact Provenance Unknown Multi-coloured Patchwork Leather Bag – Country of Origin Unknown (Early 21st Century) Blue Cashmere Bed Socks (Early 21st Century) Black-and-White Photograph of Four Young People on a Mountain Walk (1930) Homemade Kite (Early 21st Century) Fur Coat – Probably Wolf (Late Edwardian) Selection of Letters Written by Children (1950s) Newspaper and Magazine Cuttings – Various (1940s Onwards) Cutting from The Times dated 15 November 1948 Leather Dog Lead Showing Signs of Wear (Late 20th Century) Selection of Lists (c. 2011) Information Leaflet for a Local Museum (First Printed c. 2002) Display of Day-Flying Moths of Britain (c. 1911) Postcard of a Surrey Vineyard (c. 2010) Brown Leather Music Case (c. 1978) Museum Closed Sign (20th Century) Class Photo from St Saviour’s School for Girls (Summer 2011) Photograph of a Group of Indian Dancers (c. 1930s) Email Exchange Between a Woman in England and a Tea Company Employee in Assam (Summer 2011) Mason Cash Blue-and-White Cornishware Utensils Jar Containing Over 100 Single-use Wooden Chopsticks (c. Late 20th Century) 4 Metres of Blue Silk Ribbon – Used (c. 2011) Green Canvas Espadrilles (Size 38) Poor-quality Photograph of a Vagrant Pelican Flying Over a Beach in Western France Taken with a Mobile Phone Camera (2011) Postcard of a French Campsite (c. 2011) Family Ticket to Leith Hill Tower, Surrey (Spring 2012) Pottery Urn of Simple Design. Wreath of Assamese Flowers (2014)

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