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Pencoed (L.69), Lord Ashby St Ledgers,

Photostat copy of a deed of conveyance dated, 13 August 1912, from the Right Hon. Lord Ashby St Ledgers to the Llandaff Diocesan Trust, of a piece of land at Pencoed in the County of Glamorgan. Stamped 'Entered Deed Register 17 April 1945'.

Accounts and expenditure

Material relating to the accounts and expenditure, 1945-2014, of the Welsh Beekeepers' Association; includes ledger book containing Welsh Beekeepers' Association accounts, 1968-1989. Together with documents outlining recommended practice for accounting and reporting on the part of charitable bodies.

Constitution

Papers relating to the constitution, aims and objectives of the Welsh Beekeepers' Association, which include a photocopied copy of the WBKA's original 'Constitution and Rules'. One item relates to the constitution of the Council of National Beekeeping Associations of the United Kingdom (CONBA) and one early item titled 'Draft Constitution', possibly dating from 1946, relates to the constitution of the South Wales Federation of Beekeepers' Associations.

Expenses

Details of expenses incurred and reimbursed, 1946, 1968, 1978-1979, 1996-2000, 2002-2003, by Welsh Beekeepers' Association members, the earliest claims relating to post-war petrol allowances.

Training and assessment

Material relating to training courses and assessments held by or participated in by the Welsh Beekeepers' Association, which includes an 'AgriLand' project workshop organised by the Food and Environment Research Agency (FERA); sample assessment papers, 1970, 1979-1981, 1984, 1988 and undated, and sample certificates of completion; examination syllabuses; lists of examination candidates and examination results; examination reports, 1964; and related correspondence, 1967, 1992-1993 and undated.

Miscellany

Miscellaneous items relating to the Welsh Beekeepers' Association, comprising: Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries (later known as the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (MAFF))/Ministry of Education circular dated 28 August 1946; memorandum, 24 January 1947, regarding the advice and instruction of beekeepers; Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (MAFF) press releases (kept in marked envelope) regarding Foul Brood Disease (16 March 1964; 1972), food labelling (10 September 1964), pesticide use (with covering letter from MAFF, 11 September 1964), labelling and composition of food (21 December 1967), importation of bees (8 June 1971), Foul Brood Disease (25 March 1971) (with covering letter and booklet), and the Food Standards Committee's report on claims and misleading descriptions (16 August 1966); newspaper cutting, 11 June 1964, regarding beekeeping and referencing Dr Eva Crane and the Bee Research Association (For Dr Crane, see under Grant applications within this archive); newspaper cutting, 30 June 1964, showing Myfanwy Davies working on the Welsh Beekeepers' Association's new logo; typescript piece, dated October 1964, titled 'Better Bees: You can help to produce them'; typescript list, [1965], of clerks of county councils in Wales; newspaper cutting, 29 October 1965, featuring Dewi Thomas of Teifiside Beekeepers' Association; list, [1966], of Honorary Secretaries of branch associations; list, January/February 1966, of Aberystwyth & District Beekeepers' Association officials; British beekeepers' associations [?]mailing list; list of honorary secretaries of Welsh Beekeepers' Association branches, [1966]; Board of Trade document titled 'Application for changes in the protective tariff', [1966]; Brecon & Radnorshire Beekeepers' Association Programme of Meetings, 1970/71; typescript notes, [1973], titled 'Notes from Other Days'; press release issued, 28 January 1983, by the Welsh Beekeepers' Association relating to the appointment of Charles F. R. Dublon as Principality Beekeeping Adviser at Coleg Howell Harris (now Coleg Trefeca), Brecon; security memo relating to 'travel to or through Communist countries', dated 7 March 1985, issued by Commander Eric Verge, Ranges Security Officer, RAE Aberporth and Honorary Secretary of the Welsh Beekeepers' Association; Official Journal of the European Communities legislation booklet, 30 March 1985; press cutting, 28 May 1986, relating to sugar expenditure amongst Gwent beekeepers; curriculum vitae, [1993], of scientist Christopher R. Harries; bilingual booklet containing Welsh Beekeepers' Association honey recipes; printed pollen identification cards by W.D. J. Kirk, with covering note from the International Bee Research Associaton; undated guidelines relating to the treatment of Varroa disease in bees; BBC News printout titled 'Welsh urged to become beekeepers', which references Welsh Beekeepers' Association secretary John Tayler; printed Welsh Beekeepers' Association booklet, 2008, titled 'Coping with Nosema Ceranae ...'; typescript piece titled 'Raising the Standard of Beekeeping in Wales'; typescript list of Welsh Beekeepers' Association officers; printed copy of a transcript of a House of Commons parliamentary debate, 11 May 2006, titled 'Bee Diseases and Pests Control (England) Order 2006'; typescript piece, 2017, titled 'WBKA and the Annual Hive Count'; circle of embroidered material showing the Welsh Beekeepers' Association logo.

Letters to Sally Phillips

Undated poem in Welsh addressed to Siân Phillips' mother Sally Phillips on the family's removing from Alltwen in the Swansea Valley to Cwmllynfell, a village now situated within Neath Port Talbot county borough (note in Siân Phillips' hand reads 'To my mother - Sally Phillips a poem written by ? in Alltwen village and given to her when she left Alltwen to go to live in Cwmllynfell'); letter (incomplete), 1962, to Siân Phillips' mother Sally Phillips from Joan Inkin, a former schoolmistress of Siân Phillips, sending condolences on the death of Sally Phillips' husband David Phillips, father of Siân Phillips (letter annotated by Siân Phillips: 'Joan Inkin after Daddy's Death'); and an undated poem in Welsh by J. Meirion Evans, signed 'Meirion', addressed to Sally Phillips on what appears to have been her eightieth birthday (l. 12 reads: 'Aeth pedwar ugain mlynedd, do, yn rhwydd' (= Eighty years have easily slipped by), which would date the poem to around 1983).

Peter O'Toole

Miscellaneous items relating to Siân Phillips' second husband, stage and screen actor Peter O'Toole, comprising photograph of O'Toole as a boy playing the bagpipes (annotated on dorse in Siân Phillips' hand: 'O'Toole'); watercolour drawing of Peter O'Toole in the rôle of Shylock (The Merchant of Venice, 1960); printed copy of Loughborough National Union of Students' Drama Festival programme 1962-1963, at which Peter O'Toole gave a talk entitled 'The Hazards of Acting'; printed theatre programme for a 1963 production of Bertolt Brecht's 1923 play Baal, in which Peter O'Toole played the title character; printed theatre programme for a 1969 production of Samuel Beckett's 1952 play Waiting for Godot, in which Peter O'Toole played Vladimir; bound first draft screenplay of Peter Shaffer's 1962 play The Public Eye, inscribed on cover 'P O'T[oole]'; material, which contains some annotation by Peter O'Toole, relating to Man of La Mancha, a 1972 musical film adaptation by Dale Wasserman of Miguel de Cervantes' novel Don Quixote, in which Peter O'Toole played the title character; agreements made between H. M. Tennant of the Globe Theatre, London and Alexander Film Productions Ltd whereby Siân Phillips became the investor in a 1976 play by Peter King titled Dead Eyed Dicks (1976), together with summary of accounts relating to the same play (1976 agreement annotated in Siân Phillips' hand to the effect that O'Toole 'forced' her to invest in what she calls 'this awful play'); 1977 agreement annotated in Siân Phillips' hand: 'Invested £2,500.00 against Sara's [Randall, Siân's theatrical agent] wishes Never saw a penny'); photocopied bill from the Hotel Danieli, Venice, dated 26 September 1977, made out to 'Peter O'Toole Keep Films Ltd' and signed by O'Toole (annotated in Siân Phillips' hand: 'our favourite hotel'); photocopied list in Peter O'Toole's hand headed 'P. O'T DAILY LIFE NEEDS' and dated 10 April 1979 (annotated in Siân Phillips' hand 'He wrote this out for someone!'); and undated notes in Peter O'Toole's hand written on headed paper printed with 'Siân Phillips', one folio also including Siân Phillips' hand.

British Standards Institution

British Standards Institution papers outlining rules and regulations as they relate to beekeeping and the production of honey, with items of earlier provenance having historical importance. The items include printed BSI booklets dating from 1947 to 1960; BSI newsletter (Autumn/Winter 1996); draft international standard document, 1988; minutes of BSI meetings, held 13 August 1980 and 19 November 1985 (the list of attendees at the latter meeting including a representative from the British Beekeepers' Association); correspondence from the BSI, 1972, 1979-1981, 1985, relating to the reviewing of standards within beekeeping; and BSI reports and revisions, 1951-1959, 1980-1981, in relation to beekeeping and the production of honey.

Periodicals, newsletters and annuals

Examples of periodic publications of the Welsh Beekeepers' Association and other beekeeping associations, comprising: April 1947 issue of The Bee World newsletter; June 1964 issue of Bee Craft newsletter; Welsh Beekeepers' Association newsletter, September-November 1967; Pembrokeshire Beekeepers' Association newsletters, March 1986, May 1986 and June 1986; draft article, dated 3 October 1987, titled 'Welsh Honey' to be submitted for publication in the WBKA Bulletin; September 1994 edition of the Welsh Beekeepers' Association newsletter; Summer 2006 and Autumn 2012 issues of Gwenynwyr Cymru / The Welsh Beekeeper; and material relating to the compilation of the 2010 and 2011 editions of The Beekeeper's Annual.

Documentation,

National identity card, National Service, National Insurance-full time education card and black and white photograph.

Radio productions

Material relating to the radio productions in which Siân Phillips has participated during the course of her career, from her early contributions during the 1940s and 1950s through to 2020. The King-Emperor (Radio 3, [1983]) featured in the cast Siân Phillips' third husband, actor Robin Sachs. Much of the material is annotated by Siân Phillips and others. The items comprise: Addunedau Fil (1948); Gwaed yr Uchelwyr [1950s]; The Love of Lady Margaret (1972); The Love of Adolphe and Eleanor [1975x1980]; Vivat Rex (1977); Countess Cathleen (1978); Peace Games (1979); A Chast Mayd in Cheape-side (A Chaste Maid in Cheapside) (1979); A Dance to the Music of Time (1980); The Wind of Heaven (1980); London, Look You (1980); The Collections (1980); The Abbess of Crewe (1981); Bequest to the Nation (1981); With Great Pleasure (1982); The Jigsaw Must Fit [1983]; Ghosts (1983); St David's Day Gala (1983); Oedipus [1983]; The King-Emperor [1983]; Hippolytus [1984]; The Other Lake [1984]; Oedipus Rex (1985); Skirmishes (1985); Barnes' People (1986); The Visit (1987); The Mote in the Eye (1987); A Song At Twilight [1987]; A Bullet in the Ballet (1987); Strange Delights (1988); With Passport And Parasol [1988]; The Unbearable Bassington [1990s]; Down Your Way In Dinefwr (1990); The Physicists (1991); Gentleman and Ladies [1992]; Suffer the Little Children (1993); The Sea, The Sea [1993]; Murder on the Orient Express (1993); Cover Her Face [1993]; Offa's Daughter (1993); Bolt (1994); At Bertram's Hotel (1995); The Bridge of San Luis Rey (2002); All's Well That Ends Well (2002); The Leopard in Autumn (2002); Under Milk Wood (2003); Patricia, Edith and Arnold (2003); Mind The Gap (2004); Agnes (2007); Teulu Bach Nantoer (2007); Hindenburg (2009); Tridiau yn Chwefror (2011); BBC Symphony Orchestra concerts 2011-12 (2012); Iz (2014); Hide the Moon (2014); Pygmalion (2017); Ode to Saint Cecilia [2017]; The Things We Never Said (2017); Hilda (2018); Yr Eumenides (2018); The Aspern Papers (2018); Hilda (2018); The Macefield Plot (2019); On a Lost Highway (2020); Break of Day (2020);

1940s-1970s

Material, including press articles and reviews, original texts and scripts, relating to film and television productions in which Siân Phillips appeared or was otherwise involved with from the 1940s through to the 1970s. The items comprise: Brethyn Cartre (1948); Special Enquiry (1952); Who's Next? (1958); A Game For Eskimos (1958); Land of Song (1958); Granite (1958); Who's Next? [1958]; Mae'r Oll Yn Gysegredig [1958x1960]; The Garden of Loneliness [1959]; A Quiet Man (1959); The Breaking Point (1959); The Tortoise and the Hare (1959); Treason (1959); Siwan (1960); Don Juán in Hell (1962); The Fanatics (1962); Becket (1964); The Other Man (1964); Levine (1964/5); Eh Joe (1966); Thief (1968); The Beast in the Jungle (1969); Goodbye, Mr Chips (1969); The Vessel of Wrath (1970); Murphy's War (1970-1); Platonov (1971); Croeso'r Castell (1971); Sharing the Honours (1972); Under Milk Wood (1972); The Man Outside (1972); Pillars of Society (1972); How Many Miles To Babylon? (1974); Shoulder To Shoulder (1974); The Puritan Experience: Forsaking England (1975); How Green Was My Valley (1975-6); Antony and Cleopatra (1976); In Memory of Aberfan (1976); I, Claudius (1976); Frieda [1976]; Heartbreak House (1977); The Achurch Letters (1977); Warrior Queen (1978); Mr Kettle and Mrs Moon (1978); Crime and Punishment (1979); Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy (1979).

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