Identity area
Reference code
GB GB1179 Add-Carroll-Add-Carroll/7
Title
Items collected by Daisy Cousins
Date(s)
- 1959-1996 (Creation)
Level of description
Series
Extent and medium
1 file
Context area
Name of creator
(18981993)
Biographical history
Elsa Mary Carroll (1898-1993) was educated at the Manchester High School for Girls. On leaving school she became a clerk with the Northern Universities Joint Matriculation Board where she worked until her retirement. She was however best known in the area for founding the 1st Withington Girl Guide Company (in 1918) which she led until her retirement in 1974. 1st Withington was notable for its support of local elderly people, a cause dear to Elsa Carroll's heart as she worked as a volunteer for the Abbeyfield Society, presenting it with the house next-door to the Carroll family's in Lapwing Lane. In 1979 she was awarded the MBE. Elsa Carroll died in 1993.
Repository
Archival history
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Content and structure area
Scope and content
3 letters from Elsa to Daisy Cousins, with press cuttings, orders of service, and photographs collected by DC. Also some correspondence among the Ida Carroll Trustees. Presumably sent by DC to the Trust or to the Carroll biographers. Daisy Cousins was a long-standing friend of both Ida and Elsa Carroll.
Appraisal, destruction and scheduling
Accruals
System of arrangement
Conditions of access and use area
Conditions governing access
Open