| Repository | Archives |
| Reference Number | P/ROY |
| Level | Fonds |
| Creator_Name | Royden, Kingsley, d 1977, local historian |
| Title | Papers of Kingsley R Royden relating to East London history |
| Date(s) | 1910-1977 |
| Description | Scope and content
The collection consists of notes, photographs, newspaper cuttings and correspondence. Includes his involvement in East London History Society.
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| Extent | 9 documents |
| AdminHistory | Kingsley Royden, local historian, was a committee member of the East London History Society. He also worked for a time at the London Borough of Tower Hamlets Directorate of Development (see Introduction and Acknowledgements to 'Bricks and Mortar: The Buildings of Tower Hamlets', LC11014).
He photographed sites before their demolition during the 1960s-1970s.
He died c. 1977. |
| RelatedMaterial | The Local History Library Image Collections holds photographs which were donated by and mainly taken by Kingsley Royden in 1970-1972 and by his estate in 1977:
Alfred Street, 1961: P00156-P00157, P00159-P00164
Artillery Lane, 1968: P20787 [taken by Royden but no donation details given]
Athol Street, 1963: P00495, P00497-P00498, P12273, P12319, P12322
Bromley High Street, 1976: P01285, P01290 [taken by Royden but no donation details given]
Bromley Recreation Ground, 1970: P23743
'Eagle House', 151 Poplar High Street, Poplar, 1971: P22340-P22341 [taken by Royden but no donation details given]
East London Waterworks, Old Ford Road, 1962: P19842 [taken by Royden but no donation details given]
Ford Road, c1936: P12565-P12567, P12569
Hanbury Street, 1970: P03651, P03669-P03672 [taken by Royden but no donation details given]
John McDonald House, Cubitt Town, c1962: P13853-P13861
Libra Road, 1962: P04125, P12256, P12262, P12266-P12267, P12270, P12316
McCullum Road, 1962: P04258-P04260, P12252, P12254, P12257, P12260-P12261, P12265, P12269, P12315
Puma Court, Spitalfields, 1970s: P05511 [taken by Royden but no donation details given]
Roffey House, Roffey Street, Cubitt Town, 1946: P14330-P14331
Photograph of Model of Teviot Estate, Poplar, 1954: P33719
Victoria Park, 1968: P23990 [taken by Royden but no donation details given]
Wapping High Street, 1976: P06874
Photographic postcard/poster:
Walk into History at Bromley St Leonard, P30273
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Kingsley R. Royden was a committee member of the East London History Society. For records of the Society see S/ELH.
A number of printed books and pamphlets, received from his estate with the following documents, have been added to the Local History Library's collections. |
| Access Status | Open |
| Request | NO - This does not represent a physical document. Please click on the reference number and view list of records to find material available to order at file or item level. |
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