University of Sussex Library Special Collections: Mass-Observation Archive

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Untitled document, ts, 2pp, list of houses and rent per week

"The change in psychology of workers caused by change in environment", ts, 1p, 2.2.37, GT summary of a talk with Jack Fagan

"The Social Condtion of the County Borough of Bolton", ms, 4pp, an essay

Observer accounts: "The Housing Estate", ms, 6pp; "Transition from Street Dwelling to Housing Estate", ms, 7pp; "Co-operative House or Slum?", ts, 2pp; "Peter Jackson's sisters", ms, 2pp, 2.4.[?], THH, corporation housing; "Full Day of Ordinary Day Life", ms, 4pp, 26.4.38, BR; "Mrs Caldwell. Questions", ms, 5pp, 28.4.[?], WH, about daily routine; "Grices Home", ms, 23pp, 29.4[?], WH, illustrated description of home and answers to questions; "Answers to Questions. Mrs. Duckworth", ms, 6pp, 30.4.[?], WH; "Life on a Corporation Housing Estate", ms, 3pp, 5.5.38, BR, with hand drawn street map; Untitled document, ms, 8pp, 7.5.38, BR, illustrated description of unspecified house; "Description of Crossley's front room 45A Tonge Moor Road", ms, 8pp, 19.7.[?], WH; "Front room of house in Bradford St", ts, 2pp

Letter from Ernest Letchford, ms 4pp, (lacks pp1 and 2), about housing problem

Letter from BB to THH, ts, 2pp, 18.2[?], results of street survey and enclosing 7 graphs with statistical data from the street survey

Observer accounts: Untitled document, ms, 12pp, 14.10[?], [interviews] with 15 residents in [Powell Street], includes voting behaviour and newspaper read; "A day in the life of a street", ts, 13pp, Davenport Street M-O's Bolton headquarters; "Class distinctions in our street", ms, 9pp, 21.9.37, EL; Index cards (2), street observations

Mass-Observation Archive