CH/15/A - Box CH/15/A/Miscellaneous Papers
Reference code
CH/15/A
Level of description
File
Title
Box CH/15/A/Miscellaneous Papers
Quantity & Format
1 box Mixed
Creator
Higson, Charlie
Scope and content
Miscellaneous ephemera (folder)
• Invitation to A Cock and Bull Story.
• Postcards with portrait photographs of Peter Adamson, William Roache and Bryan Mosley (actors from Coronation Street).
• Two packs of playing cards by Hyperion.
• Invitation to a premiere of the animated film Over the Hedge (Dreamworks and UIP).
• Four coloured shirt buttons.
• Programme for the musical ‘Forget-me-not’ by Peter Nichols; presented by Sevenoaks School. [CH attended Sevenoaks].
• Published map of France.
• Invitations to CH’s 50th birthday in Puglia, 11/7/08.
• Coloured drawing of a naked Aztec? AZ BA-ZOO-KA.
• Postcard of The Dream Dog by Assheton Gorton.
Pink folder
• Notes on how to manufacture Ecstasy.
• Printed note on Tottenham Hotspur, 77-83.
• Spare Luggage, the Wandsworth Prison Fanzine (magazine).
• Printed ephemera on Chelsea Harbour, London.
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Abacus. March – December 1997. Sales catalogue featuring Getting Rid of Mister Kitchen, p. 14.
Hamish Hamilton Spring catalogue 1992. Advertises King of the Ants.
Hamish Hamilton Spring catalogue 1993. Advertises Happy Now.
Hamish Hamilton Spring catalogue 1995. Advertises Full Whack.
Membership card, facilities and house rules for Soho House (three booklets).
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The 1960s coursework assignment (1 leaf).
Verve. New series. No. 1. Sevenoaks School magazine. ‘My Sweet Love’ by Murray Higson.
The 50th British Academy Film and Television Awards (BAFTA), programme. The awards were held on 29/4/97. Includes guest list (inserted).
Irreverent printed nativity scene on A5 pieces of paper. Designed by CH?
Design drawings and explanations for a man in riot gear.
Drawings of ‘gizmos’.
Children’s Party at the Palace, 25/6/06 – invitation, tickets, etc.
Map of Oxford area with filming locations; and itinerary (ripped) for travel to the Northeast Highlands, Hadrian’s Wall and Liverpool, May 2009.
A collection of short typed pieces (ideas):
• Things the boys might say when being questioned.
• Army soldiers (linked to the above piece possibly).
• Spanish conversation.
Cinema Paradiso – file of material related to a BBC4 series from 2006 in which CH had a role. Also includes some itinerary information.
The film documents the purchase through fund-raising, and subsequent restoration and re-opening, of a dilapidated old cinema I the south of Italy by an unlikely band of Italian and British friends including ex ‘Madness’ signer Suggs, CH and Italian film director Edoardo Winspeare.
Unidentified BBC filming schedule, September – December, 2015.
CORRESPONDENCE
Letters from Disney-Hyperion Books for Children, 2009
Letters from the executive Editor and the Editorial Director in praise of CH’s book Fourteen: the Enemy. They express a wish to launch the book in America.
Email correspondence with staff at Blue Peter, 2013
CH makes arrangements for a visit to the studio, 2013. CH judges a Blue Peter competition.
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Artwork for a Norwich bus advertisement ‘Made in the University of East Anglia’, 2009.
• Invitation to A Cock and Bull Story.
• Postcards with portrait photographs of Peter Adamson, William Roache and Bryan Mosley (actors from Coronation Street).
• Two packs of playing cards by Hyperion.
• Invitation to a premiere of the animated film Over the Hedge (Dreamworks and UIP).
• Four coloured shirt buttons.
• Programme for the musical ‘Forget-me-not’ by Peter Nichols; presented by Sevenoaks School. [CH attended Sevenoaks].
• Published map of France.
• Invitations to CH’s 50th birthday in Puglia, 11/7/08.
• Coloured drawing of a naked Aztec? AZ BA-ZOO-KA.
• Postcard of The Dream Dog by Assheton Gorton.
Pink folder
• Notes on how to manufacture Ecstasy.
• Printed note on Tottenham Hotspur, 77-83.
• Spare Luggage, the Wandsworth Prison Fanzine (magazine).
• Printed ephemera on Chelsea Harbour, London.
________________________________________
Abacus. March – December 1997. Sales catalogue featuring Getting Rid of Mister Kitchen, p. 14.
Hamish Hamilton Spring catalogue 1992. Advertises King of the Ants.
Hamish Hamilton Spring catalogue 1993. Advertises Happy Now.
Hamish Hamilton Spring catalogue 1995. Advertises Full Whack.
Membership card, facilities and house rules for Soho House (three booklets).
________________________________________
The 1960s coursework assignment (1 leaf).
Verve. New series. No. 1. Sevenoaks School magazine. ‘My Sweet Love’ by Murray Higson.
The 50th British Academy Film and Television Awards (BAFTA), programme. The awards were held on 29/4/97. Includes guest list (inserted).
Irreverent printed nativity scene on A5 pieces of paper. Designed by CH?
Design drawings and explanations for a man in riot gear.
Drawings of ‘gizmos’.
Children’s Party at the Palace, 25/6/06 – invitation, tickets, etc.
Map of Oxford area with filming locations; and itinerary (ripped) for travel to the Northeast Highlands, Hadrian’s Wall and Liverpool, May 2009.
A collection of short typed pieces (ideas):
• Things the boys might say when being questioned.
• Army soldiers (linked to the above piece possibly).
• Spanish conversation.
Cinema Paradiso – file of material related to a BBC4 series from 2006 in which CH had a role. Also includes some itinerary information.
The film documents the purchase through fund-raising, and subsequent restoration and re-opening, of a dilapidated old cinema I the south of Italy by an unlikely band of Italian and British friends including ex ‘Madness’ signer Suggs, CH and Italian film director Edoardo Winspeare.
Unidentified BBC filming schedule, September – December, 2015.
CORRESPONDENCE
Letters from Disney-Hyperion Books for Children, 2009
Letters from the executive Editor and the Editorial Director in praise of CH’s book Fourteen: the Enemy. They express a wish to launch the book in America.
Email correspondence with staff at Blue Peter, 2013
CH makes arrangements for a visit to the studio, 2013. CH judges a Blue Peter competition.
________________________________________
Artwork for a Norwich bus advertisement ‘Made in the University of East Anglia’, 2009.
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