Business and Family

Reference No:
L DBFA/4/4/1
Dates:
c.1846-c.1957
Description:
Bound volume of personal and business papers featuring: photographs and illustrations of the Mechanics Institute on Charlotte Street including the interior of the main erecting hall (c.1860) and staff outside the front entrance (c.1887); portrait of James Forster Jnr; portrait of John Casson (foreman); seriesof photographs of the premises now renamed to George Street (1957); ms notes regarding the addresses of the firm and two partners between 1849-1956 using local street directories; adverts from local directories (1846-1924); transcript of letter from E. Andrews complaining about the price of railway tickets printed in 'Hull Packet' (Jun 1851); ts notes on Major James Forster (2pp, c.1890s); letters to Forster and Andrews (1883-1898) including correspondence with Edward John Hopkins regarding The Temple Church, London (1883); specifications for organs at Grimbsy Parish Church (order no. 988), Stevenage (order no. 915), Spalding (order no. 1171), Haddington (order no. 1109) and Lady Glenorchy's Parish Church, Edinburgh (order no. 1169); correspondence between Laurence Elvin and Dorothy Forster regarding James Forster's family (n.d.) and a series of 30 colour postcards of Hull streets and views in the early 1900s
Format:
Archive Item
Extent:
1 volume
Language:
Access Conditions:
Access will be granted to any accredited reader
Repository:
Hull Local Studies Library
Collection:
Records of Forster and Andrews, organ builders