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Summary: Personal papers of Joshua Watts Brooke, including correspondence, accounts, photographs, press cuttings, Bath College reports 1881, Sydney College and 'potted personality of J.W. Brooke' dated 1940, certificate of commission and certificate of volunteer service in the Wiltshire Regiment, death certificate, handwritten will and typed copy of will and probate. Souvenir menu for Mayor's dinner at Marlborough dated November 1936, sketch of Prechute church and list of licensed houses in the Borough of Marlborough, circa 1780. Annuity proposal, 1945, birth certificate and baptism certificate of Betty Allyson Brooke, born 27 July 1911 and 'notes concerning Betty's birth, 1911', names and dates of certain family members and fabric cuttings of 'Mother's wedding dress'. Cash book commencing 1937 - 1946, copy of report on a preliminary enquiry into the sewage, drainage and supply of water and the sanitary conditions of the inhabitants of ...Swindon, Ailsbury Estate shell explosions - diary from 1945, together with letter dated 8 January 2014, gifting the material to the Museum.