Papers of Selwyn Pearce-Higgins including notes and diaries, research papers, correspondence, photographs and original railway documents, c1840-1978. 84 boxes plus loose papers, volumes and drawings. Includes information relating to the Second World War (WW2) World War Two, war department railways. Societies and preservation, light railways and tramways, early locomotives and locomotive building, signalling. includes papers of JF Brunton, JH Walker and WH Wright. Also includes 7 boxes of photo albums collected by Pearce-Higgins from other sources including albums of WW2 munitions manufacturing by railway companies.
Selwyn Howard Pearce Higgins, who was born in 1912, was educated at Malvern School and at Jesus College, Cambridge. He became a schoolmaster at Liverpool College and later at the Royal Wolverhampton Grammar School. A member of the Newcomen Society, the Industrial Locomotive Society and the Great Western Society he became an authority on industrial locomotives and minor independent railways, particularly in Wales. He was also the author of a book on the WantageTramway.
Photographs, 39 wholeplate (gelatin or collodion) prints and three postcards of Great Missenden glued to pages of an album entitled "Harrow and Uxbridge Railway". The album has maroon cloth covers with leather reinforcing at the corners and spine, gold tooling and title, watered end pages. From the collection of Selwyn Pearce-Higgins.
Measurements:
: 10.2362 x 12.0079 x 1.4961 in.; 260 x 305 x 38 mm
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