Diaries and scrapbook of Lydia Dorothea Benoly (1887-1969) kept while Mayor of Bethnal Green Manuscript diary in two volumes of Lydia Dorothea Benoly kept during her term of office as Mayor of Bethnal Green. Entitled ""Often I remember" (Jottings from a mayoral note book fifty years ago)" and "Dedicated to the Worshipful The Lord Mayor and Lady Mayoress of the year 1983-84 in revered memory of Sir Charles and Lady Collett. 1933-34". Some pages cut out. The diaries include many notes about public engagements and dinners, with her observations what people were wearing and what they were like. Also scrapbook mainly covering the her term of office, filled with newspaper cuttings, photographs and brochures, with earlier and later items inserted. 1890s-1950s