Scope and Contents Undated reminiscences of Sir Arthur Worthington Biggs. Note that there is a summary of the content of these reminiscences at 435/10/2/2. These are all loose pages, some numbered, some with unclear numbering. Includes pages with the following titles: Early life; Visits to Italy; Mammoth Caves of Kentucky; Politics; The Evesham Election Adventure; National Liberal Club; South Africa; Crystal Palace (with printout of transcription of these pages from the Kent and Sussex History Forum); When I...

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Ward, Lock & Co's plan of the city of Paris. Undated.

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Undated.

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Undated.

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Undated photograph of Sir Arthur Worthington Biggs' house. Stilwell suggests that 138 Anerley Rise, the address on the photograph, was near Crystal Palace and could have been where Biggs was living when he was running Crystal Palace.

Scope and Contents Handwritten notebook, thought to be written by Henry Bright Ashford (1851-1926), Howard Bigg’s maternal grandfather. Includes six enclosures of newspaper cuttings and notes. The text roughly covers the decade 1910 to 1920. Includes: - Copy of marriage licence for Edgar Arnold Biggs and Ida Bright Ashford (Howard Biggs’ parents), 1914 (p.38); - Some notes on Edgar Arnold Biggs’ grandfather, William Biggs, copied from press reports of his death in 1881 (p.78); - Some notes on Edgar Biggs’s...

Scope and Contents Handwritten notebook, with index, thought to be written by Henry Bright Ashford (1851-1926), Howard Biggs’ maternal grandfather. Includes four enclosures of newspaper cuttings and a receipt. The notebook roughly covering the first 2 or 3 decades of the 20th century, 1900 to late 1920s. Includes: - Notes from old diaries (p.48) - Notes with title 'More about the Ashford and Bright families'. Mention of Philip Ashford (1788-1838), who was Henry Bright Ashford’s grandfather (p.195) - Notes with...

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Cover shows the counties covered; includes a section where the material can’t be classified geographically. There are two loose enclosures: one for the Harleian Society at p.35; one for Letters and papers foreign and domestic, of the reign of Henry VIII, Vol 4 part 2, 1526-1528, at p.85.

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Cover shows the counties covered. There is one loose enclosure, relating to nonconformity in Leicestershire, particularly in the town of Earl Shilton.

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Flyer for Harrow division in the 1892 general election. Mention of Russell Biggs, President of the Harrow Division Liberal Association. Printed.