Mass-Observation Archive

Worktown Collection (1937-40)

Box 12: Voting; Parliamentary By-Elections

12/A Voting and non-voting

Index cards (8) 6 point questionnaire, 26.2.38, including a question about newspapers read and political views

Index cards (26), replies to questions about politics and voting

Observer account

Untitled document, ms, 6pp, WH, people questioned in the street about their voting intentions

"Analysis of Voter and Non-voter material", ts, 4pp, municipal by-election, November 1937

Untitled document, ms, 2pp, [WH], about West Ward running the election

Paper folder containing "Astley Bridge By-Election", ts, 1p, 12.4.[?], BB conversations about the election

"Report on Tonge Moor municipal bye-election" 6pp 14.12.37, HH

List "Polling Booths Halliwell Ward", ms, 2pp, 1.11.[?]

Misc, 2pp from booklet, 5 index cards

12/B Knowledge of the election

Index card, ts, guidelines on information to be collected about the election

Untitled document, ms, (photocopy), 3pp, WH, programme of work to be carried out in relation to voting and polling stations

"Analysis of Questions", ms, (photocopy) 2pp, chart

Untitled document, replies to questions about one of the election candidates, chart

"Conversations", index card, ms, LT

"West Ward By Election", ms, 1p, 25.5.37, EL, overheards on forthcoming election

"Questions asked at Farnworth on the weather at the municipal elections", ms, 4pp, 25.6.[37], WH, 2 copies

"Political Conversations", ms, 3pp, 30.10.37, PB

Index card (1), ms, 30.10.37, GT, comments about the election

"Report on weather, Tonge Moor By-election", ms, 1p, 14.12[37], [WH]

"Astley Bridge Bye Election", card, ms, LT, total hours of sunshine

Untitled document, ms, 1p, list giving weather details in the wards at various elections

12/C Political knowledge

Untitled document, ms, pp12, analysis sheets of a political knowledge and opinion survey, chart, 320 secondary school children, ages 11-18, responses to a 7 point questionnaire

12/D Polling booths and ticket snatching

"List of cars needed", ms, 1p, WH, cars to take voters to the various polling stations

Observer accounts

"Tong By", ms, 2pp, observations and overheards

Untitled document, ms, 8pp, excerpts from observers' notes on behaviour and overheards at polling booths

"Astley Bridge By-Election", ms, (photocopy), 3pp, 12.4.[?], LT, street canvassing of people's opinions on candidates

"Polling Day", ms, 5pp, 12.4.[?], WH

"Ticket-snatching", ms, 2pp, 4.5.[?], WH, asking people for their polling cards

"Ticket-Snatching West Ward", ms, 4pp, WH

Untitled document, ms, 2pp, 25.10.[?], JD, distribution of polling cards

"St Matthews Polling Station", ms, 3pp, 1.11.[?], EB

"Notes on the Election, at S.S. Simon and Judes", ts, 7pp 1.11.[?], JW

"Politics", index cards (2) ts, 1.12.37, ZB, number snatching

"Tonge Bye Election", ts, 6pp, 14.12.[37], THH observations at three polling stations

"Committee Rooms for Tonge Moore Council School", ms, 10pp, 14.12.37, WH

"Tonge Ward By-Election", ms, 1p, 14.12.37, number snatching at Tonge Moor Council School

"Tonge Bye Election Castle Hill", ms, 11pp 14.12.[37], [incomplete], JW

"Castle Hill Polling Booth. How people wipe their feet", ms, 9pp, 14.12.37

"Children on Election Day", ts, 1p, brief conversation about candidates

Misc 1p, ms

12/E Politics

Miscellaneous notes, drafts and analyses relating to elections and politics generally

12/F Politics - history

Pre-1937 election material

12/G Parliamentary by-election, Farnworth 27 Jan 1938

Election leaflet, (photocopy) 4pp, 27.1.38, "Farnworth Division, Parliamentary Bye-Election ..... George Tomlinson the Labour candidate"

Observer accounts

"Farnworth Bye Election", ms, (photocopy), 4pp, 27.1.38, LT

"Questions asked at Farnworth on the weather at the municipal elections", ms, 1p, 25.6.[?], WH

"Open-air Meeting at Burtons Works, Walkenden", ms, (photocopy) 4pp, WH

12/H Parliamentary by-election Jan 1938: public meetings addressed chiefly by Labour candidates

Observer accounts

"Empire Cinema Farnworth", ms, 13pp, 16.1.[38], WH, behaviour of speaker

"Conservative meeting held at All Saints, Farnworth", ms, 3pp, 16.1.[38], [WH], behaviour of speaker, phraseology, gestures

"WEA Extension Lecture", ms, 11pp, 17.1.38, EB, speaker's behaviour - Richard Crossman

"Gestures of Tomlinson, Lab Candidate: Farnworth By-Election", ms, 9pp, 19.1.[38], WH

"Conservative meeting held in Kearsley. Mount Methodist Church", ms, 7pp, 20.1.[38], WH

Untitled document, ms, 11pp, 21.1.[38], [EB], [lacks p1], speaker's gestures, [Tomlinson]

"Meeting held at Worsley Road Council School", ms, 9pp, 25.1.[38], WH, speaker's gestures, - Tomlinson

"Harper Green Central School", ms, 5pp, 25.1.[38], WH, speaker's gestures [Tomlinson]

"3rd meeting at St. Thomas' School, Farnworth", ms, 6pp, 25.1.[38], WH, speaker's gestures - Tomlinson

"4th meeting:- St. Francis", ms, 5pp, 25.1.[38], WH, speaker's gestures

"Little Fulton Co-op Hall", ms, 9pp, 25.1.[38], WH, speaker's gestures, Ryan, Conservative candidate

"Farnworth Co-op Hall", ms, 9pp, 25.1.[38], WH, speaker's gestures - Ryan

"Conservative Meeting", ms,9pp, 17.2.38, EB, speaker's gestures

"Herbert Morrison", ms, 12pp, 26.2.[38], speaker's gestures

"Henry Pollitt", ms, 22pp, speaker's gestures

"Analysis of Gestures", ms, 13pp, a four part analysis

Paper folder containing

"Sixteen speeches, ms, 7pp

Index card, ts, 16.3.38, THH, reference to candidates' by-election expenses