Miscellaneous documents
Reference: D/X 1190 Catalogue Title: Miscellaneous documents Area: Catalogue Category: Other Records Description: Violet Godfrey Carr of Tow Law, theatre and cinema worker
Covering Dates: 1845-1991
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Catalogue Description
Records given15 January 1998 Acc: 2493(D)
Catalogue Contents
Papers relating to Violet Godfrey Carr (Ref: D/X 1190/1-4)
Violet Godfrey Carr was born in Tow Law on 23 July 1908 and was brought up there by foster-parents. Her natural parents ran a 'portable theatre'. She joined a theatre company in 1927. She remained in theatre and cinema work until the 1950s.
Ref: D/X 1190/1Letter from Broughs, Ltd., Grocers and Provisions Merchants, Oxford Street, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, to W. Godfrey, Alexandra, Quebec, giving a character reference for Violet M. Carr, 7 October 1927
(1 paper, typescript)
Ref: D/X 1190/2Photograph of the exterior of the shop of Broughs, Ltd., in Oxford Street, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, with its employees, including Violet Godfrey Carr, fifth from the right, lined up on front, n.d. [1920]
(1 photograph, 14 cm. x 9 cm., black and white)
Ref: D/X 1190/3From Portable Days: A Personal Account of Life in the Theatre by Violet Godfrey Carr, as told to Neil McNicholas, The Spredden Press, Stocksfield, 1991
(1 volume, printed, paper bound)
Ref: D/X 1190/4Poster advertising a performance of the Infanticide or the Bohemian Mother by J.M. Madocks, of Polka-Mania and of the French Washerwomen, at Campbell's Historical Picture Gallery and Pantomime Pavilion, Durham City, 5 December 1845
(1 poster, 25.5 cm. x 51.5 cm., mounted on card)
