Papers relating to Sidney Springgay

Papers relating to the life and career of Sidney Springgay, Ship's Purser on Southern Railways and British Railways. Includes two unpublished typescripts of a projected book of memoirs, "Tales of the Channel," as well as press releases, photographs and correspondence. includes accounts of his service in the Second World War / World War Two / WW2 Mr. Springgay passed the material to Henry Maxwell, who investigated publishing the memoirs in the early 1960s.