Papers of Marjory Allen, Lady Allen of Hurtwood (1897-1976), landscape architect, campaigner for pre-school education and promoter of child welfare... Miscellaneous correspondence about playgrounds and adventure playgrounds, transferred from PW.3/1 and PW.3/2 [MSS.121/AP/7/1-2]., 1954-1970
Miscellaneous correspondence about playgrounds and adventure playgrounds, transferred from PW.3/1 and PW.3/2 [MSS.121/AP/7/1-2]., 1954-1970
MSS.121/AP/3/15/1-40
1954-1970
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Contents include:
Notting Hill Adventure Playground: correspondence with London County Council about establishment, copy letter about application to Goldsmiths' Company, correspondence on Lady Allen's resignation from the committee, 1959, 1964, 1970 [MSS.121/AP/3/15/1-8].
OMEP [Organisation Mondiale pour l'Education Prescolaire / World Organisation for Early Childhood Education] survey on playground provision: correspondence with National Playing Fields Association [NPFA] and the Ministry of Housing and Local Government [MHLG], 1965-1967 [MSS.121/AP/3/15/9-17].
Correspondence with John Bertelsen, Copenhagen, pioneer of "junk playgrounds", 1954, 1955, 1959 [MSS.121/AP/3/15/18-24].
Various, 1955-1962, including: Oxford English Dictionary supplement about entry for adventure playground, 1959 [MSS.121/AP/3/15/27]; letters on behalf of Duke of Edinburgh, 1959, about distribution of 'Play parks' by the Variety Club of Great Britain [MSS.121/AP/3/15/28-30]; correspondence with 'The Times' (Sir William Haley, A P Ryan) about article 'It has paid to trust youth in Crawley', published 18 Feb 1961 [MSS.121/AP/3/15/31-36]; copy letter to Joe Benjamin, criticising some aspects of 'In search of adventure' [MSS.121/AP/3/15/40].
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