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Mr Straw's House, Nottinghamshire
NT 3167079.2.3
Summary
Brown paper envelope containing a series of A. Leslie Armstrong's lecture syllabus 1954, 1956, 1957 & 1958 (record 3167079), a handwritten note, two pages of typed notes held with a pin, six newspaper cuttings, a typed book list and a 'Basildon Bond' note pad of handwritten notes by William Jnr. . The syllabuses (record 3167079) are; 'THE UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD SESSION 1957-58 THE PROGRESS OF MAN IN PREHISTORIC TIMES' 'THE UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD SESSION 1957-58 THE PROGRESS OF MAN IN PREHISTORIC TIMES' 'THE UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD SESSION 1957/58 THE PROGRESS OF MAN IN PREHISTORIC TIMES (PART II)' 'THE UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD SESSION 1957/58 THE PROGRESS OF MAN IN PREHISTORIC TIMES (PART II)' 'THE UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD SESSION 1956-57 THE OLD STONE AGE IN BRITAIN' 'THE UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD SESSION 1956-57 PREHISTORIC BRITAIN' 'THE UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD SESSION 1957-58 THE PROGRESS OF MAN IN PREHISTORIC TIMES' 'THE UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD SESSION 1957-58 THE PROGRESS OF MAN IN PREHISTORIC TIMES' The two pages of typed notes held with a silver coloured metal clothes pin; 'Visit to CRESWELL CAVES and WHALEY, Derbyshire, with Mr. A.l.Armstrong, M.A. M.C. May 1956. The limestone crags of Creswell, Near Worksop are situate in a lovely enclosed dale flanked on either sides with hazel growth, oak and ash trees whose roots penetrate among the many fissures. Visits were made into the interior of the Pin Hole cave, Robin Hood cave, mother Grundy's Parlour on the north or Derbyshire side, and Church Hole Cave on the other side. Mr. Armstrong stated that investigations were begun by the Rev.J.M.Mello in 1875, and hew was later joined by Sir William Boyd Dawkins. The later found among many treasures the earliest example of pictorial art discovered in our land - a piece of smooth bone three inches long and an inch deep, on which had been scratched the head and shoulders of a horse....'.