One copy annotated on reverse by R.S. Chalk, as follows:
'My recollections of the macabre ‘relics’ (gathered, I think, from Pereira, a fellow KS who had originally been up Ashburnham) are as follows:-
During repairs to Ashburnham House, some years before our time, there were discovered the mummified corpses of a CAT and (its prospective victim) a RAT. How they had met their simultaneous fate none could day. (Were they ‘gassed’ during the Great Fire of Ashburnham in 1731?)
This I remember being told: ‘The Cat was wearing a silver collar.’ (In the photo this appear to be a silver plate on a leather collar. Had anyone thought of it, the hall-mark on this would have given an approximate date.)
About 1923-4 I remember reading (perhaps in ‘House Notes’ in the ‘Eliza’) that “the Cat and Rat had been duly returned to Ashburnham Upper’, amid some mock ceremony. I cannot imagine these ‘relics’ were treasured there for long.'
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GB 2014 WS-02-POS-01-25
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c.1911
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GB 2014 WS-04-LAN-01-03-33
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Early 20th Century
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Glass Plate Negatives (4¼” x 3¼”). [missing] original box no. "V.C. 2"
GB 2014 WS-01-BUS-FF/1/27
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1637
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GB 2014 WS-01-BUS-LL/5/13
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1597
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GB 2014 WS-01-GRX-II/iv/12
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1960
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GB 2014 WS-02-ABY-02-01-01-2023-02
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2023-05-06
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GB 2014 WS-06-ELI-03-01
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1941-1964
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Register of Termly payments.
GB 2014 WS-06-ELI-03-02
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1964-1973
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Loose paper register of termly payments.
GB 2014 WS-01-GRE-VI/vi/23
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1652
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GB 2014 WS-01-BUS-KK/1/27
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1691
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