Records of Leeds Fifty Club of the Society of Friends

Minutes of committee, 1925-1941 (2 vols.) [O 49-50]

The Fifty Club was set up in 1925 at a social evening organised by Joe and Mary Wood. It was a social and literary society, along the lines of the old Leeds Friends Essay and Illustration Society. The committee organised a programme of talks and social events, held in members' homes during the months of October to March. After the outbreak of war in 1939, meetings were disrupted by black-out conditions; in late 1940, the club began to meet at Carlton Hill Meeting House, but this was abandoned after fears that it was too close to the city centre. The Club did not revive after the war.

The records are numbered and arranged according to the system used when they were in Carlton Hill Meeting House

The conditions of deposit include a clause requiring written prior permission from a Friend Custodian for access to consult current legal documents and any material less than fifty years old

The collection of archives of the Society of Friends formerly held at the Friends Meeting House at Carlton Hill, Leeds

In English

Contents listed in Handlist 99, "Inventory of the records of Brighouse, Knaresborough, Leeds, and Settle Monthly Meetings of the Society of Friends formerly preserved at the Friends Meeting house, Carlton Hill, Leeds", 2nd edition, 1997

As with access, the photocopying of current legal documents and any material less than fifty years old requires the permission of a Friend Custodian

Related material in Leeds University Library: Records of Leeds Friends Essay and Illustration Society and Leeds: Carlton Hill Preparative Meeting

The records are deposited and remain the property of the Society of Friends