File contains both black and white and colour prints. Photographs typically show music students during lessons and rehersals, and McGavin and other music teachers leading lessons, demonstrating instruments and overseeing performances. See item level descriptions for more details.
Note: items 1142 & 1143 are prints of a factory and warehouse (possibly the Boosey & Hawkes factory at Edgware).
Photographs of music pupils at Hemel Hempstead Grammar School
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Ma Normandie, music written for the Dipano zither, circa 1975
Receipt
Photograph of a woman spinning, Kharnak
Black and white negative of machinery dumping dirt from driver's window
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