The provenance of this collection is unclear, but as it consists of personal documents belonging to successive residents at the same address on Ogilvie Street, it could have been left in the library as part of a house clearance at a later date. The residents were Mr William A. Patrick, who is listed in the street directory as living at this property from at least 1911 until 1948, and Miss Agnes Crosbie, first listed in 1949. The archive consists of contribution cards, rule books, and membership cards belonging to William for the Belfast Branch of the National Society of Coppersmiths, Braziers and Metalworkers, The Brassfounders and Coppersmiths, and the Brassfitters, Turners, Moulders and Copersmiths trade unions. There are also books for the Caledonian Yearly Benefit and the Salvation Army Assurance Societies, bylaws, and dinner menus for the Downshire Masonic and St. Helen’s Masonic Lodges, a national health & pensions insurance members' record card, broadcasting/wireless receiving licences, receipts for plumbing work undertaken, and from Miss Bradshaw’s Nursing Home. There is also correspondence for Robert Patrick, at the same address including service and discharge records for the Air Force Reserve and Royal Navy, multiple character references from among others chief engineers on ships including the British Resource, Windsor Castle, Rodi and Roslin Castle, an apprenticeship indenture from Harland and Wolff to work as a fitter, notification of the award of a long service and good conduct medal from the navy and membership books for the Amalgamated Engineering Union. There are several national insurance documents belonging to Agnes from the 1950s.
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