Second World War (1939-1945)

Scope and Contents The 1939 celebrations were cancelled due to the outbreak of the Second World War (1939-1945) on 1st September. Letters and telegrams were received from Sisters of Mercy and other well wishers, containing messages of support and greeting. Those received from Sisters came from: Abingdon, Alnwick, Bournemouth, Brentwood, Brighton, Clifford, Gravesend, Guernsey, Handsworth, Hull, Hunslet, Liverpool, London (Harewood Avenue and Grove End Road NW8), Midhurst, Nottingham, Shanklin, Sunderland,...

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Consists of records acquired and accumulated by the Sisters of Mercy of the Abingdon Community, in particular the Reverend Mothers. It includes correspondence; books of guidelines on the constitutions; photographs; school records and photographs; records of church and local and national events affecting the Sisters; records of day to day life of the sisters; and personal papers of Sisters.

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Written by Sister Mary John Langan RSM, the annals include details of life at Burngreave Road as a young Sister, experiences of the Second World War (1939-1945), the years after the war to the closure of Burngreave Road and opening of Swanbourne Road. The bulk of the annals cover the years spent in Swanbourne Road community and include photographs, Mass booklets and news cuttings. Includes an undated Requiem Mass booklet for Sister M. Raphael Lowrie/Lowry RSM.

Scope and Contents The file consists of typed correspondence with handwritten notations from the Catholic Education Council dated 1907-1918. They mainly concern the number of admissions to the College, grants and other financial affairs, as well as the practicality of laying down a minimum standard of educational attainments as a condition of admission. There are also many typewritten letters dated 1918 from the Women's National Land Service Corp. and the Board of Education concerning volunteers among...

Scope and Contents The file contains folders of photographs of the pupils and staff of the Ave Maria School. There are individual school photographs; many images of the girls and sisters at work; the productions the school put on to entertain; school journeys; and sports events, crafts and needlework. There are some photographs of the Ave Maria Hostel which was in Croydon, and became the convent. These are in a separate envelope. There is also a picture of the school buildings in Eltham, an image of 'Edge...

Scope and Contents File contains drawings of the convent in Bermondsey 'from a drawing by Francis D Bedford' and a metal etching of the same. There is also a slide of the image of Dockhead in which the old Convent is just visible. In a separate envelope in the folder, are images of the convent after a V2 bomb hit the Most Holy Trinity Church on 03 March 1945 at the end of the Second World War and ricocheted into the convent. There is a written appeal on the back of one of the photographs for it to be returned...

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The file contains both coloured, and black and white Images of the convent buildings and chapel at Chislehurst. The sisters were housed there after the original Bermondsey convent had been bombed in Second World War until the new convent was built, Chislehurst continued as convent and Novitiate until it closed in 1978.

Scope and Contents note Paperwork and correspondence between the Clerk to the Governors and the Superior General of Bermondsey Community (based at Chislehurst) relating to the running of St Joseph's Catholic Primary School, Bermondsey, and infrequently to St Mary's Catholic Primary School, Eltham. Includes: a history of St Mary's RC School, Arnold's Place, Bermondsey (as the girls' school was known) to 1913; the employment of staff and appointment of governors; air raid precautions, requisitioning of school...

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Consists of records acquired and accumulated by the Sisters of Mercy of the Bermondsey Community, in particular the Reverend Mothers. Includes correspondence, financial, administrative and property records with some plans, photographs, textiles and spiritual writings by the Sisters; school and care home records and photographs; records of church and local and national events affecting the Sisters; personal papers of Sisters.

Scope and Contents A correspondence file consisting, in the main, of letters from many different priests and religious brothers connected in some way to the Bermondsey community. Main topics in the letters are: the Crimea 1854-1856; the Hospital of St Elizabeth at Great Ormond Street, London, 1856; founding a convent at Abingdon 1859-1871; founding a convent in Dartford, 1869; founding a convent at Kingston, Jamaica, 1890-1894; correspondence from Ecclesiastical Confessors 1930s-1940s; Second World War...