John Manning SPEKE

Box Parish Council possess a number of original documents concerning John Manning SPEKE given to them by a Box resident. In order to make them more widely available and preserve the originals, they have been scanned and produced in JPEG format. If wished, click on the document filename in the first column. The file will be shown in a reduced size. WINDOWS should give you the opportunity to display it full sized. Due to restrictions, documents are of a maximum size of A4. With larger documents, this has meant being scanned in ‘sections’. It should be possible to print and physically paste the parts to form the ‘whole’

File Name	Description
document 1	letter to a Mr Gossip of the Chippenham News dated 18^th September 1964 from Cecil Lambert
document 2	Letter to Cecil Lambert of ‘Westdene’ The Ley, Box from ‘Don’ (?) of Northfield House, Box dated 29^th May 1961
document 3	Letter from assistant editor of ‘The Times’ newspaper to Cecil Lambert dated 15^th December 1960 re monument sketch
document 4	Letter to the editor of the ‘Sunday Times’ from Cecil Lambert dated 11^th December 1960
document 5	Reduced version of 5A and 5B
document 5A	Newspaper cutting from the Western Gazette dated 2^nd February 1962 (centenary of Speke’s discovery of the source of the Nile)
document 5B	Continuation of above
document 6	Newspaper cutting from the Wiltshire Times dated : 10^th March 1961
document 7	Detailed sketch of the design of the Speke memorial (for the mason ?)
document 8	As in 7, but probably the original sketch, drawn in ‘rough’ on a piece of notepad (both sides shown)
document 9	An artist’s drawing of the Speke memorial (also on tracing paper)
document 10 bot left	A full page newspaper cutting from an unknown paper. Reproduced in four A4 pages (see below)
document 10 top left	See above
document 10 bot left	See above
document 10 bot right	See above
document 11 top	Newspaper cutting from the Chippenham News : Friday 22^nd October 1971
document 11 bot	bottom half of above