Collection AR763 - Jack T Jones

Accession Number: A763

Records of Jack T Jones

NUT: Sixteen minute books 1914 - 1970 , Poland : Seventeen postcards, seven photographs. two card photographs, three periodicals : New Poland c1950, eleven booklets 1944 - 1950 and miscellaneous documents concerning education in Poland c1948, War Pay Allowances: two Warlingham Park Committee Agenda 1940, two copies of a newspaper article 1940, twelve letters 1940 and ten miscellaneous documents 1939 - 1940.

Item date: 1914 - 1970

Accession date: 09/2003

Administrative history: Jack Jones took up his appointment as Headmaster of Davidson School on 4 September 1956. He studied at Southampton Universityand began his teaching career in 1939 at Ecclesbourne School. He went on to teach at Rectory Manor, Kingsley, John Ruskin, Stanley Technical College and Heath Clark where he was Geography master until he took up his final appointemnt at Davidson School. He retired from teaching on 31 August 1972. Throughout his career he was a very active member of the NUT, serving thirty years as secretary of the local branch until 1968. In 1963 he was re-elected to the executive of the NUT in the extra-metroplitan area. In 1970 he went on to be elected National Vice President and later won the Presidential elections. He died in 1995. This collection reflects his activities as a member of the NUT in the form of sixteen minute books mostly General Committeeand Committee but includes Finance and General Purposes Sub-Committee, Organisation Committee and Young Teachers Committee. In August 1950 Mr Jones visited Poland and the collection includes material from the visit in the form of seven photographs, two card photographs and seventeen postacrds. In addition there are eleven booklets in English spanning the period 1944 - 1950 concerning the rebuilding of post-war Poland and one of Auschwitz and Birkenau in four languages. There are three editions of the magazine New Poland from 1950, some papers on women and higher education in Poland, and a typed article entitled Education in Poland by J T Jones B.Sc. Within the collection there are also items concerning War Pay Allowances, two printed agendas of the Warlingham Park Hospital War Pensions Committee date 22 January and 19 February 1940 and various miscellaneous correspondence, papers and newpaper cuttings from the same year

Custodial history: Documents transfered to Croydon Archive Service by the daughter of the late Mr Jones