Unmounted slide of Roald Dahl, Patricia Dahl and family

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Scope & content: Unmounted medium format colour slide of Roald Dahl (1916-1990) with his family at Waterperry Horticultural School. His wife Patricia Dahl (nee Neal) (1926-2010) can be seen sitting on the far left of the bench. The other people in the photograph are unknown. Ink inscription on sleeve on recto: 'V. Finnis'; 'Roald Dahl & family – Keen gardner'; '437'. Full name: Patricia Louise Dahl. Beatrix Havergal took over the lease of Waterperry estate from Magdalen College, Oxford in 1932, and eventually bought it in 1948. She ran the estate as the Waterperry Horticultural School for ladies as headmistress until her retirement in 1971. Valerie Finnis attended as a student from 1942 and stayed on to teach until her marriage to Sir David Scott in 1970. The school closed and the estate was purchased by the School of Philosophy and Economic Science who continue to run it today as a retreat for student residential courses. The gardens are also open to visitors and Waterperry is known for its five orchards, broad variety of snowdrops and two collections of saxifrages accredited with Plant Heritage

Physical description: 60 (h) mm x 60 (w) mm, (medium format); 88 (h) mm x 67 (h) mm (sleeve). Image: Square. acetate film. transparency