Bean Family Papers

Place Europe: United Kingdom, England
Accession Number PR82/131
Collection type Private Record
Record type Collection
Measurement 130 ITEMS
Object type Papers
Maker Various
Date made 1904-1966
Access Open
Related File This file can be copied or viewed via the Memorial’s Reading Room. AWM315 419/058/030
Conflict Period 1910-1919
Period 1930-1939
Period 1960-1969
Description

Collection relating to Charles Edwin Woodrow Bean and the history of Brentwood School, Essex, 1904-1966.

The collection consists of correspondence and ephemera recieved and collected by Bean from members of his family following his return to Australia from England in 1904. The correspondence largely relates to the history of Brentwood School in Essex where Bean recieved his education from the age of around twelve, and where his father, Edwin Bean, was the headmaster. The ephemera consists of booklets and other material related to Brentwood School, which had been circulated between Charles and his brothers Jack and Montague for comment.