IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0347 D144
Held at: Wandsworth Heritage Service
Title: Florian Lady Singers
Date(s): 1933-1967
Level of description: Collection
Extent: 1 box
Name of creator(s): Please contact the Archive for further information.
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
The Florian Lady Singers was founded in the early 1930s. The group of singers competed in and won many local and national competitions. The choir was conducted by John Booth and then by Doctor Durrant. It became an adult edcuation class which met at the West Hill Institute. The choir had other conductors following the retirement of Doctor Durrant but closed in the 1950s. Mollie Simmonds was a member of the choir from the 1930s until its closure. Following the closure of the choir, she joined the Balham Townswomen's Guild choir. She also played the cello in the West Hill Orchestra, the Wandsworth Symphony Orchestra and the Putney Symphony Orchestra.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Programmes and ephemera, including newspaper cuttings, of the Florian Lady Singers, including details of competitions that they took part in. The material belonged to Mollie Simmonds, a member of the choir.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English
System of arrangement:
The papers have been arranged chronologically in ten year groups.
Conditions governing access:
This material is only available in the Wandsworth Heritage Service search room at Battersea Library. Please contact Heritage Service staff for more information.
Conditions governing reproduction:
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Finding aids:
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ARCHIVAL INFORMATION
Archival history:
Immediate source of acquisition:
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ALLIED MATERIALS
Related material:
D145 Wandsworth Symphony Orchestra
DESCRIPTION NOTES
Archivist's note:
Finding aid created by export from CALM v8.0.2.40 Archives Hub EAD2002. Entry amended by Barbara Ball
Date(s) of descriptions: April 2011