| Description | Records of The Beaford Centre, later known as The Beaford Arts Centre. Records cover the conception and planning by Dartington Hall trustees for a rural community arts centre in North Devon and the purchase and conversion of Green Warren House in Beaford, North Devon as its base. Included are documents relating to: the appointment of the first Warden, John (Michael) Lane, and subsequent directors of The Beaford Centre; the setting up of residential courses in co-operation with the Local Education Authority; the Beaford Photographic Archive, including photographers Roger Deakins and James Ravilious; community projects; the Orchard Theatre; and the North Devon Arts Association.
Records include correspondence, law and finance papers, minutes and reports, press, programmes and publicity.
Correspondents include: Charles White (estate steward); Acland, Barron & Smith, architects; John (Michael) Lane (warden, later Dartington Hall Trustee); Leonard Manasseh & Partners, architects; Peter Sutcliffe, Michael Young; Maurice Ash, A O (Pom) Elmhirst, Christopher Zealley, John Pontin (Dartington Hall Trustees); A G H Gardner-Brown; Leonard Elmhirst; McKenna & Co (solicitors); The Arts Council of Great Britain; W Elmslie Philip (Chief Education Officer); John Piper (artist); Eric de Mare; Bernard Leach (potter); Colonel J N Oliver; Dorothy Elmhirst; John Moat; Jean Carr (journalist); Irving Wardle; Wilkinson & Cross Ltd (Doll manufacturers); British Broadcasting Corporation; Gerald Whitmarsh (Devon County Council); Jeremy Thorpe (MP); Harland Walshaw; Gareth Keene (Trust Company Secretary). |