At the Northern School of Music in 1970? See if you can play Where's Wally with your face in this school photograph taken in All Saints Park. Who else can you spot? We'd love to know!

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Many thanks to Keith for donating these items for digitisation. Do you have material and memories of the Northern School of Music? We'd love to see them.

Part of the #NSM2020 project "A 20/20 Legacy: the centenary of the Northern School of Music" supported by the National Lottery Heritage Fund.

When Ida Gertrude Carroll (1905-1995, student and principal of the Northern School of Music) retired from then Royal Northern College of Music in 1976 after 50+ years of dedication to music teacher training, the Ida Carroll Fellowship Appeal was launched. A Research Fellowship, it aimed to honour the work of Ida who received no less than 7 honorary academic distinctions in her time.

What do you remember of Ida?

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Many thanks to Keith for donating these items for digitisation. Do you have material and memories of the Northern School of Music? We'd love to see them.

Part of the #NSM2020 project "A 20/20 Legacy: the centenary of the Northern School of Music" supported by the National Lottery Heritage Fund.

John Barbirolli (1899-1970, conductor of the Hallé Orchestra) conducted many memorable performances with the Hallé including a number in 1968 which featured the Northern School of Music's choir! He even sent a note of congratulations to the school on its golden jubilee in 1970.

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Many thanks to Keith for donating these items for digitisation. Do you have material and memories of the Northern School of Music? We'd love to see them.

Part of the #NSM2020 project "A 20/20 Legacy: the centenary of the Northern School of Music" supported by the National Lottery Heritage Fund.

John Barbirolli (1899-1970, conductor of the Hallé Orchestra) conducted many memorable performances with the Hallé including a number in 1968 which featured the Northern School of Music's choir! He even sent a note of congratulations to the school on its golden jubilee in 1970.

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Many thanks to Keith for donating these items for digitisation. Do you have material and memories of the Northern School of Music? We'd love to see them.

Part of the #NSM2020 project "A 20/20 Legacy: the centenary of the Northern School of Music" supported by the National Lottery Heritage Fund.

Ida Gertrude Carroll (1905-1995, student and principal of the Northern School of Music) writes a very complimentary reference for Keith Robinson, former pupil of the Northern School of Music.

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Many thanks to Keith for donating these items for digitisation. Do you have material and memories of the Northern School of Music? We'd love to see them.

Part of the #NSM2020 project "A 20/20 Legacy: the centenary of the Northern School of Music" supported by the National Lottery Heritage Fund.

A charming example of Ida Gertrude Carroll's (1905-1995, student and principal of the Northern School of Music) composition work! Developing the work of her father Walter Carroll (1869-1955, father of Ida Carroll, teacher, composer and music education professional) who is remembered for his music for children, Ida composed music for teacher-training courses.

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Part of the #NSM2020 project "A 20/20 Legacy: the centenary of the Northern School of Music" supported by the National Lottery Heritage Fund.

Another article about the Carroll sisters and their impact on music and education in Manchester. Do you remember them? What were they like?

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Part of the #NSM2020 project "A 20/20 Legacy: the centenary of the Northern School of Music" supported by the National Lottery Heritage Fund.

Newsclipping about the Northern School of Music and its principal Ida Gertrude Carroll (1905-1995, student and principal of the Northern School of Music) talking about its founding principal Hilda Collens, its reputation as a hardworking school and more.
Do you remember this "workhouse"?

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Part of the #NSM2020 project "A 20/20 Legacy: the centenary of the Northern School of Music" supported by the National Lottery Heritage Fund.

A lovely article where we hear Ida Gertrude Carroll (1905-1995, student and principal of the Northern School of Music) and Elsa Mary Carroll (1898-1993, founder of the Withington Girl Guide Company) talk about their lives together and their father.

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Part of the #NSM2020 project "A 20/20 Legacy: the centenary of the Northern School of Music" supported by the National Lottery Heritage Fund.

Obituary of Ida Gertrude Carroll (1905-1995, student and principal of the Northern School of Music) in which she is remembered as saying "I'm too busy to die".

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Part of the #NSM2020 project "A 20/20 Legacy: the centenary of the Northern School of Music" supported by the National Lottery Heritage Fund.

Obituary of Ida Gertrude Carroll (1905-1995, student and principal of the Northern School of Music). Her motivations and loyalty to the Northern School of Music are powerfully laid bare.

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Part of the #NSM2020 project "A 20/20 Legacy: the centenary of the Northern School of Music" supported by the National Lottery Heritage Fund.

Elsa Mary Carroll (1898-1993, founder of the Withington Girl Guide Company) updates friend Daisy Cousins on a special service they're conducting in London and on a girl guides campsite. Elsa was a member of the Carroll family - influential educators for young people and music in Manchester.

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Part of the #NSM2020 project "A 20/20 Legacy: the centenary of the Northern School of Music" supported by the National Lottery Heritage Fund.

Elsa Mary Carroll (1898-1993, founder of the Withington Girl Guide Company) here updates family friend Daisy Cousins on her life. The photo she refers to likely one of her with her MBE medal. She also references the Woolworth's fire in Manchester that year, saying she saw the smoke start from the Kendal Milne restaurant windows on Deansgate (now the House of Fraser building).

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Part of the #NSM2020 project "A 20/20 Legacy: the centenary of the Northern School of Music" supported by the National Lottery Heritage Fund.

A delightfully fun time being had on the steps of what could be the Carroll family home. Elsa Mary Carroll (1898-1993, founder of the Withington Girl Guide Company) has a good giggle with who I assume is friend Daisy Cousins.

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Dates approximate

Part of the #NSM2020 project "A 20/20 Legacy: the centenary of the Northern School of Music" supported by the National Lottery Heritage Fund.

Who knows Lapwing Lane in Didsbury? This was the location of the Carroll family home, influential educators in Greater Manchester. In this postcard, Elsa Mary Carroll (1898-1993, founder of the Withington Girl Guide Company) writes to a close family friend Daisy Cousins.

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Part of the #NSM2020 project "A 20/20 Legacy: the centenary of the Northern School of Music" supported by the National Lottery Heritage Fund.

This is the Carroll family at the family home on Lapwing Lane. At the back on the right is a young Ida Gertrude Carroll (1905-1995, student and principal of the Northern School of Music). In the window of their home reads a partially obscured sign "ARP Warden" suggesting this was taken not long before or during the Second World War.

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Part of the #NSM2020 project "A 20/20 Legacy: the centenary of the Northern School of Music" supported by the National Lottery Heritage Fund.

Did Walter Carroll (1869-1955, father of Ida Carroll, teacher, composer and music education professional) just compliment Joan Bamford (music teacher and former pupil of the Northern School of Music) on an egg called 1942.No.2? I feel thoroughly left out. Aside from making great eggs, Walter compliments Joan on her "spirit [being] just splendid for the training of boys and girls of today."

Do you remember being taught by Ms. Bamford? Elizabeth Joan Bamford went on to become a music teacher in Wigan, earning herself an MBE for her work. Amongst her pupils was a young Sir Ian McKellen!

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Part of the #NSM2020 project "A 20/20 Legacy: the centenary of the Northern School of Music" supported by the National Lottery Heritage Fund.

The tension between the Northern School of Music's memory and teacher-training initiatives and the Royal Northern College of Music's emphasis on training performers are here touched upon by Ida Gertrude Carroll (1905-1995, student and principal of the Northern School of Music) in a letter to her friend and former pupil Joan Bamford.
Does anyone remember the early years or founding of the Royal Northern College of Music? What was the relationship like between the RMCM crew and the NSM?

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Part of the #NSM2020 project "A 20/20 Legacy: the centenary of the Northern School of Music" supported by the National Lottery Heritage Fund.

Ida Gertrude Carroll (1905-1995, student and principal of the Northern School of Music) gushes her support for former pupils and shares encouragement with her own former pupil Joan Bamford.
Does anyone remember being their pupils?

Ida also celebrates becoming the second female president of the Incorporated Society of Musicians in decades, attaching a small clipping announcing the appointment.

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Part of the #NSM2020 project "A 20/20 Legacy: the centenary of the Northern School of Music" supported by the National Lottery Heritage Fund.

Ida Gertrude Carroll (1905-1995, student and principal of the Northern School of Music) celebrates the number of students they have through the war but also shares anxieties about wanting to volunteer for the war efforts. She writes to former pupil Joan Bamford.

Elizabeth Joan Bamford went on to become a music teacher in Wigan, earning herself an MBE for her work. Amongst her pupils was a young Sir Ian McKellen!

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Part of the #NSM2020 project "A 20/20 Legacy: the centenary of the Northern School of Music" supported by the National Lottery Heritage Fund.

Apparently, "lifts, flowers, eggs" made for quite the evening in 1942, or so Ida Gertrude Carroll (1905-1995, student and principal of the Northern School of Music) thanks Joan Bamford for after a "do".

Elizabeth Joan Bamford went on to become a music teacher in Wigan, earning herself an MBE for her work. Amongst her pupils was a young Sir Ian McKellen!

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Part of the #NSM2020 project "A 20/20 Legacy: the centenary of the Northern School of Music" supported by the National Lottery Heritage Fund.

A "newsy" letter in response to another "newsy" letter from Ida Gertrude Carroll (1905-1995, student and principal of the Northern School of Music) to Joan Bamford, former pupil at the school.

Elizabeth Joan Bamford went on to become a music teacher in Wigan, earning herself an MBE for her work. Amongst her pupils was a young Sir Ian McKellen!

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Part of the #NSM2020 project "A 20/20 Legacy: the centenary of the Northern School of Music" supported by the National Lottery Heritage Fund.

A very chuffed Ida Gertrude Carroll (1905-1995, student and principal of the Northern School of Music) and Elsa Mary Carroll (1898-1993, founder of the Withington Girl Guide Company), with an M. Huxley, on the day Elsa received her MBE.

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Part of the #NSM2020 project "A 20/20 Legacy: the centenary of the Northern School of Music" supported by the National Lottery Heritage Fund.

This very good doggo is waiting dutifully and majestically. 13/10 for sheer size and poise.
Possibly a family pet or in some way connected to the girl guides, this lovely animal is represented in the Carroll family archive.

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Part of the #NSM2020 project "A 20/20 Legacy: the centenary of the Northern School of Music" supported by the National Lottery Heritage Fund.