Mad Hatters Castle, Board Residence, Whalley Range, Manchester
1939-1990s
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The collections consists of a visitors book, 1939-1950; an album of poetry about and photographs of the guests. c.1939-1945; various photographs and poetry; an autograph book and miscellaneous newspaper cuttings and letters etc.
It is an important source for the study of Jewish refugees in Manchester during the Second World War.
Related Material:An interview with Alice Campbell about the residence during the Second World War was undertaken by Ken Howarth in 2005. A copy of this will be deposited at the North West Sound Archive.
Title:
Mad Hatters Castle, Board Residence, Whalley Range, Manchester
Date of work:
1939-1990s
Reference number:
GB127.M727
Level of description:
Fonds
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Custodial history:
Mabel Butt (commonly known as 'Mother') ran a boarding house called Mad Hatters Castle at 25 Demesne Road, Whalley Range, Manchester. During the war she took in many Jewish refugees.
After the war she took in people from all over the world including Greece, Argentinia, Belgium, Russia, Palestine, New Zealand, Spain, Jamaica, India, Canada, America, Ireland, and West Africa. The last entry in the Visitors Book is for February 1950.
Her daughter, Alice J. Campbell (nee Mellalieu) came to live at the residence during the war and the poetry about the resident is compiled by her. She left in 1947 to go to London.
Mabel Butt also did film work at the Mancunian Studios in Rusholme. Mancunian Films were a small film company who owned a studio in a converted chapel on Dickinson Road, Longsight, between the years 1947 and 1954
Access restrictions:
Unrestricted
Use restrictions:
Unrestricted
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Record types:
Manchester Archives and Local Studies
Language:
English
Record number:
7198629