[ The King's School, Canterbury. ] 18 items from scholar Antony W. Budgen, including 4 amateur dramatic programmes with some cast signatures, 4 family photographs, invitation card and 6 press photographs of Queen Mother's opening of Great Hall.

The collection is in fair condition, with the photographs in good condition, and the other items showing some signs of age and wear. The four printed programmes are all bifoliums. ONE: Programme for a School House and Galpin's performance of R. F. Delderfield's 'Worm's Eye View', 12 March 1955. Signed by sixteen members of the cast, including Budgen. TWO: Programme for a King's School Players performance of Romeo and Juliet, 16 to 23 July 1955. Signed by five members of the cast. THREE: Programme for a School House, The Grange and Galpin's performance of Kotzebue's 'Lovers' Vows', 27 November 1955. With a few autograph notes. FOUR: Programme for a School House performance of L. Du Garde Peach's 'A Horse! A Horse!', 9 December 1956. FIVE: Printed invitation card, made out to 'The Rev. and Mrs. H. W. Budgen', from the governors of the school, for 'the Opening of the Great Hall' by Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother, 12 June 1957. SIX and SEVEN: Two telegrams of congratulation, both to 'Budgen, Milner Court, Sturry, Canterbury'. Both in envelopes and dating from 1954. The photographs range in size from to 8.5 cm square to 15.5 x 20.5 cm. EIGHT to ELEVEN: Four black and white photographs of a smiling scholar in robes (no doubt A. W. Budgen), one showing him with a woman (presumably his mother). TWELVE: Colour photograph of two young men in theatrical costume of Elizabethan ladies. THIRTEEN to EIGHTEEN. Six black and white press photographs (two from The Times, two from the Kentish Gazette, two from Entwistle, Canterbury). Four photographs depict the Queen Mother, including one of her inspecting cadets, and two with school dignitaries. The other photographs depict the new Church Hall, one of them showing it empty, and the other with the school orchestra in it.