Box containing documents relating to King George VI's coronation in 1937. Includes programme, commemorative booklet, and invitation addressed to Mr W. P. W. Barnes. Programme for Empire Youth Service on Sunday May 15th 1938.
Material concerned with coronations, including both public material, such as souvenir brochures, and private material, such as invitations and cards of admission to Westminster Abbey.
Closed-collar single-breasted brown O.T.C jacket with central black buttons and four pockets. Features two sizes of buttons with relief design of a crown and bugle horn connected by a bow. With two flap pockets, a lower skirt and two chest box-pleat pockets with flap close, all held with a smaller button. Both epaulettes on shoulders have a small button and ‘Westminster OTC School’ pin badges. Embroidered satin stitch insignia on sleeve cuffs: proper-left orange rifle, proper-right red diamond with silk shading and central cream diamond outline. Two small makers’ labels visible in interior back collar, and remains of paper label on proper-left chest interior. Pinstripe twill lining in sleeves Conserved by students of the Centre for Textile Conservation at the University of Glasgow in 2015.
Correspondence regarding literary magazines relating to Westminster School and collections for former members of staff.