An assortment of mid-20th-century British paper ephemera and collectibles. The collection includes four Senior Service cigarette card albums with tan card covers. Mapping and travel materials feature several Ordnance Survey editions, notably a Seventh Series One-Inch map of Derby and Leicester (Sheet 121, revised 1950, published 1954), a Popular Edition Contoured Road Map of North-West Norfolk (Sheet 8), and a map of England and Wales (Sheet 11). Further travel items include a Scotland for the Motorist booklet and a Loughborough information map with street index. The periodical section contains Billy Bunter comics such as The Heavyweight, a 1984 Spring/Summer issue of Britannia: The Magazine of Britannia Airways, and a Yesteryear Transport Digest. Also present is a Hobbies Annual Handbook for craftsmen and fretworkers. Local history is represented by biographical booklets regarding Edward Miller, Organist of Doncaster, and a surname index for the churches of Doncaster titled The Hidden Church. Miscellaneous items include a vintage packet of gummed parcel labels, a Winslow Cruses religious booklet, and cigar box labels for Meharis Brasil and Agio.
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