Correspondence and Photographs compiled by Paul Thackray relating to the history of the Charles F. Thackray Company
Level of description
File
Reference code
A.2023.7.7.1.11
Date
23/12/1936-8/8/1989
Extent and medium
1 folder
Scope and content
Correspondence and photographs compiled by Paul Thackray, Deputy Group Managing Director of Chas. F. Thackray Limited, relating to Paul Thackray's proposals to establish a library and museum in 1985, about the Chas. F. Thackray Company. The file contains correspondence from employees relating to donations of photographs for the library and museum project, replies to Paul Thackray's request for memories of employees working at 10 Park Street, newspaper cutting reporting on Mercer Gray receiving a presentation at a dinner and dance at the Victory Hotel in Leeds to mark 25 years' of service with the Thackray Company
The file contains photographs (all black and white) of Thackray employees. Includes photographs of Thackray employees outside the back of the chemist in Great George Street, photographs of visitors from Nigeria studying how to make surgical instruments and party held for them at the Thackray Company, photograph of a Thackray employee [P. Armitage] receiving a prize for a dance competition from Charles F. Thackray's wife Helen, photograph of Princess Chichibu visiting a Thackray exhibition in Tokyo, Japan sent to Paul Thackray by Bill Piggin, Export Director, photograph of Noel Thackray, Mercer Gray, Scurrah Wainwright and Tod Thackray at a presentation to Mercer Gray in 1936, photograph of Noel Thackray's 21st birthday party, and two portrait photographs of John Charnley.
The file contains photographs (all black and white) of Thackray employees. Includes photographs of Thackray employees outside the back of the chemist in Great George Street, photographs of visitors from Nigeria studying how to make surgical instruments and party held for them at the Thackray Company, photograph of a Thackray employee [P. Armitage] receiving a prize for a dance competition from Charles F. Thackray's wife Helen, photograph of Princess Chichibu visiting a Thackray exhibition in Tokyo, Japan sent to Paul Thackray by Bill Piggin, Export Director, photograph of Noel Thackray, Mercer Gray, Scurrah Wainwright and Tod Thackray at a presentation to Mercer Gray in 1936, photograph of Noel Thackray's 21st birthday party, and two portrait photographs of John Charnley.
Conditions governing access
Open
Conditions governing reproduction
Not permitted
Language
English
Subject
Thackray Museum of Medicine, History