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relating to the building and landscaping of the Court and park), estate management papers (rentals, accounts, estate diaries, wage books and papers relating to the running of the estate) and parish boxes (title deeds, leases, manorial documents etc.). During the 1980s work was done on the collection, storing it in archival quality boxes and creating box lists to help navigation around the collection. The collection remained in this order until its transfer to
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During the 1950s Lt. Col. O.D. Smith, D.L. J.P., Agent and
Managing Trustee of the Croome Estate Trust worked on the arrangement of the archive, sorting it into 3 main sections: family papers (personal correspondence of family members, diaries, photographs, recipe books and the bills and accounts
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Scheme, that is to say that it is 'of especial importance for the study of some particular branch of art, learning or history', the collection was accepted to settle ÂŁ436,854 of tax. An invitation was put out to tender for interested bodies that may wish to house the collection. Because the
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to attain the other existing parts of the Croome collection, in 1950 the
Trustees of the Croome Estate requested that the material be returned to the estate office. The collection was returned to the Croome Estate Trust on 28 February 1950, although
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was identified as its new permanent home. A project is currently underway to catalogue the collection according to the
International Standard for Archival Description (ISAD(G), making it fully accessible to the public for the first time.
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history, Worcestershire Record Office expressed great interest in the collection and was granted permanent allocation of the collection. On 9 November 2006 the collection was transferred from the Croome estate office to
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that has been created over hundreds of years by the
Coventry family and their estate. The archive includes substantial runs of papers relating to the estates of the family, including plans, rentals,
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on permanent loan by permission of George
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John Coventry (1654â1685) 4th Baron Coventry of Aylesborough
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information contained within the collection is integral to
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George William Coventry (1838â1930) 9th Earl of Coventry
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George William Coventry (1784â1843) 8th Earl of Coventry
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George William Coventry (1758â1831) 7th Earl of Coventry
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