|
Collection Description
Barclay, John, 1898-1966
John Barclay collection
Identification for the photographs has been provided by Anthony Barclay.
Photographs have been numbered on the verso.
Photograph #1 Group of eight men and women seated outdoors, most with
cups and saucers in their hands. Peace Pledge Union Summer School, Langham,
1938.
Left to right: Maurice Rowntree, Stuart Morris, Vera Brittain, [unidentified],
Lawrence Housman, J. Middleton Murry, Max Plowman, [unidentified].
Photograph #2 Group of sixteen men and women seated outdoors in deck
chairs arranged around three small tables.
Peace Pledge Union Summer School, Langham, 1938. [According to Anthony
Barclay, Langham was purchased as a refugee camp for Basque children during
the Spanish Civil War and was later used to house refugees from German
bombing.]
4th. from the left in print dress with a dark hat on the back of the chair
is Vera Brittain.
7th. from the left with a cup and saucer at his feet is John Barclay.
Photograph #3 Two panoramic images of a large group seated outside with
trees and tents in the background.
Peace Pledge Union Swanwick Camp, 1937.
In the top image John Barclay, Max Plowman and Dick Sheppard can be seen
in the front row on the right side; in the lower image Dick Sheppard can
be seen in the front row, just to the left of centre.
Photograph #4 Group of twenty-one men and women arranged in two rows,
the front row seated on chairs. The group is posed at the back of a house.
Saturday meeting of a local P.P.U. group (for fund raising?) in South
London, Summer 1939.
Arthur Baynton can be seen in the back row and John Barclay (second from
left, in white hat) is in the front row.
Photograph #5 Group of twenty-four people, women, men and young boys
in an outdoor setting. Eightof the group [speakers?] are seated on chairs
to the left of the photograph, most of the rest [the audience] are sitting
on the grass or standing.
Peace Pledge Union Summer School, Langham, 1938
John Barclay is seated on the extreme left of the group.
Photograph #6 Portrait of [R.] Dick Sheppard. The original has been
signed on the mount in the bottom right corner.
Photograph #7 Dick Sheppard with another man [Barclay?] outside the office
tent at Swanwick Camp, 1937.
Photograph #8 Dick Sheppard and Irene B outside a tent at Swanwick Camp,
[1937].
Photograph #9 Large group seated inside a tent facing a platform with
chairs. Last night of Swanwick Camp, [1937].
Miss Rutherford, J. Middleton Murry and Dick Sheppard can be seen in the
front row; John Barclay is standing at the back on the left of the group
of three.
Photograph #10 Large group of men and women, most of them seated on
wooden chairs in an outdoor setting. Langham [P.P.U.Summer School, 1938].
John Barclay is in the centre of the photograph, speaking; Stuart Morris
is standing next to him. J. Middleton Murry is on the left of the picture,
wearing glasses.
Photograph #11 Large group of men and women in an outdoor setting, most
of them seated on wooden chairs with their backs to the camera.
[Langham, P.P.U. Summer School, 1938. Appears to be taken at the same
session as Photograph #10].
John Barclay, wearing a hat, is standing on the right of the picture.
Collection Description
Back to B Index
Back to Top
|
