The Munrow Family



The following comes from a book by Albert Davis ("Dave") Munrow entitled Pure and Applied Gymnastics (1955). The photos from it came via someone calling themselves Sarah. They are believed to be the three members of the Munrow family. At the top ofcourse, the young person on the left is believed to be David Munrow. The following pics of the same woman are probably his mother Hilda who used to teach dance, and at the bottom Albert Davis ("Dave") Munrow who was a well-known, and respected PE instructor. Incidently, one of my contacts claimed that he was always worried whenever his son went rock climbing!! 
I may try, or not to get some better reproductions of the images presented.RS








                                                         

Comments

  1. Mike from Derby19 October 2021 at 10:28

    He appears to have been an "only" child - have you read his last will and testament?

    ReplyDelete
    Replies
    1. Robert Searle18 January 2022 at 02:42

      Yes, he was an only child. I have read something of his will which was actually published in the Times if I recall correctly. In it he lists a number of male friends and two female ones to receive monetary bequests from his estate. Whether what I read was the full will I do not know. I suspect not and there was no reference to his wife if I recall correctly.

      Delete
  2. Mike from Derby18 January 2022 at 09:19

    This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.

    ReplyDelete
    Replies
    1. Robert Searle19 January 2022 at 02:19

      Yes, if you could do that through my gmail account which is robertsearle46@gmail.com

      Delete
  3. Robert Searle20 January 2022 at 03:54

    Thank you...received your pdf on Munrow's Will. What I do not understand is that what I saw in the Times is different and certainly not as detailed as on the one you sent. Anyway, maybe it is best to leave this subject alone. It is not particularly pleasant.

    ReplyDelete

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Victoria & Albert

Image
https://www.youtube.com/Searle8 The following may of interest! http://collections.vam.ac.uk/name/david-munrow/AUTH342361/     One of a series of seven letters, handwritten by David Munrow to his beloved teddy bears and toys while he was on holiday in Cornwall as a young boy in the 1950s. In these affectionate and newsy letters to bears ‘Humph, Ginge and Eddy,’ David paints an exciting picture of his holiday activities for the soft toys left behind in his Birmingham bedroom: ‘We have caught eight fish…we eat them for breakfast’; ‘I really ought to have written before but we have been so busy painting the boat’; ‘The other day I tried to reach a stick in the water and Plosh! In I went with all my clothes on’; ‘I hope you arn’t [sic] too lonely at home but we've only got another week down here’. David Munrow’s intelligence, imagination and wit shine through. He adds a post script to many of the letters from a toy named ‘Poo’, which he writes in a different hand and with d
Read more

Overview of the Munrow Archive

Image
Skip to Content List of Access Keys Search the website | Search the catalogue Cookie policy |   Search the archives Search our website Search our website Search our records Skip to content Home page A to Z index Search Visit us Help Complaints procedure Terms of use Contact us Access key details About us Education Records Information management Archives sector You are here: Home > Search the archives > Access to Archives > Records Access to Archives Part of the UK archives network   Royal Academy of Music Library   Papers of David Munrow Papers of David Munrow The entire contents of this catalogue are shown below. Browse the hierarchical structure instead Reference DM Covering dates 1908-1976 Held by Royal Academy of Music Library Extent 7
Read more

The Performance Practice of David Munrow and the Early Music Consort of London : Medieval Music in the 1960s and 1970s

  Student thesis : Doctoral Thesis › Doctor of Philosophy/Blogger Ref  http://www.youtube.Searle8 Edward George Breen Music This thesis focuses on the musical contribution of David Munrow and his Early Music Consort of London (EMC) to the so-called early music revival of the 1960s and 1970s. By exploring the notion of shared cultural space in performances of medieval music by leading ensembles of the time, this thesis seeks to isolate aspects of performance practice unique to the EMC. An assessment of literary sources documenting the early music revival reveals clear nodes of discussion around Munrow’s methods of presenting early music in concert performance which are frequently classified as ‘showmanship’ with a focus on more scholarly performance practice decisions only evident in the post-Munrow period. Close readings of these sources are undertaken which are, in turn, weighed against Munrow’s early biography to map out the web of influences contributing t
Read more