| Description | Correspondence and records including press cuttings (1930-1970) primarily regarding Town and Country Planning including: housing; road and rail service; and the Totnes Town Map. Correspondence between Leonard Elmhirst and: Town Clerks including: George E Windeatt, J A Green, and Walter Holt; Totnes Guardians Committee; Totnes Rural District Council including a souvenir programme (1894-1974); Totnes and District Chamber of Trade; Devon County Council including: Gerald Whitmarsh, Chairman; County Architects Office; R B Carnegie, County Surveyor and J G P Madge, Area Surveyor; P Turnball, County Planning Officer; E J Harding, Divisional Road Surveyor; H G Godsall, Clerk of the County Council; F A W Fenge, Deputy Clerk; D Cook, Chief Education Officer. Elizabeth Chesterton; Totnes Further Education Centre; Ray Mawby, House of Commons; Devon Constabulary; and C F Fiennes and Richard Marsh of the British Railways Board. Also contains correspondence regarding Totnes Guildhall between Leonard Elmhirst and: John H Harvey, Charted Architect and Walter Holt, Town Clerk.
A substantial correspondence concerns Totnes Swimming Pool and the Exploratory Committee (1957-1967), between Leonard Elmhirst and: H B Reed, Mayor of Totnes, J A Green; W E Philip, Chief Education Officer; Elizabeth Chesterton; Peter Sutcliffe and C E White, Dartington Hall Trustees.
Correspondence between Leonard Elmhirst and associations in Totnes including: Broomborough Hospital; Totnes Youth Club; Totnes Cinema; W C Stephens regarding the renaming of the Totnes Fat Stock Show to the Totnes Christmas Show; the Totnes and Bridgetown Royal Regatta; The Devon Guild of Craftsmen; The Editor of the Totnes Times; The Totnes and District Society; The Modbury Local History Society; Totnes Town Band; Peter A Kennedy, archivist, Devon Record Office regarding a photograph of Totnes Priory Foundation Charter; The Elizabethan House and the Totnes Museum Society regarding repairing and re-binding books and the donation by Leonard of old clock machinery (1963) and a clock (1971); Grant and Green, Chartered Architects regarding Totnes Museum and the restoration of the Gallery; J Kellock, solicitor regarding an old desk which is a museum piece being moved to the big room at Allerton.
Correspondence between Leonard Elmhirst and Mayors of Totnes including: G C Edgecombe regarding financial assistance towards the 'Spitfire Fund' and 'Totnes and District Wings for Victory Week' (1940); Alderman S R Williams including an invitation and programme for the opening of The Civic Hall Totnes (1960); and William C Bennett, regarding inviting Leonard Elmhirst to be 'Officially received' by the council including a copy of the Mayor's speech (1970) and a press cutting. Also contains correspondence with A N Buckmaster, Town Clerk regarding the Royal Visit (1962) including an Order for Presentation. |