GROSER PAPERS

Papers of the Revd. St.J.B. Groser concerning social work in Stepney and other parts of the East End of London:

Stepney Old People's Housing Association

Minutes and other papers concerning Stepney Old People's Housing Association, and especially the conversion of 27-28 Tredegar Square into accommodation for the elderly, 1951-63 (ff.1-137).

Jews in East London

Letter from the Peace Pledge Union to Groser, 1 July 1938, describing hostility to Jews in Bethnal Green (f.138).

Non-white Immigrants

Papers concerning the welfare of coloured [sic] people in Stepney, 1944-59, including papers relating to a hostel for seamen in Leman Street, and the establishment and constitution of the Stepney Coloured People's Association in 1951 (ff.139-244).

Wartime

Correspondence and papers concerning the provision of an air-raid shelter at railway arch number 146, Watney Street, Stepney, including a plan of the premises, 1940-1 (ff.245-60).

Youth Club

Papers concerning the Vallance Youth Club, Chicksand Street, founded in 1951 for delinquent and potentially delinquent boys, including correspondence with Ethel Mannin, 1951-7 (ff.261-300).

<span class="wrapper"><p>The following pamphlets published by the National Committee for Rescue from Nazi Terror have been transferred to the Department of Printed Books:</p> <p>The Jews in Europe. A broadcast by Watson Thomson, 25 April 1943. Alexei Tolstoy, Terror in Europe. The fate of the Jews, no date</p> <p>Transferred to the Department of Printed Books:</p> <p>Report and investigation into conditions of the coloured population in a Stepney area, [1944].</p></span>