MANUSCRIPT NOTEBOOK.

8vo. pp. [196]., some pages blank. Roderick Ham has written his name and address which is 12 St Mary Abbots Place London W8 6LS on first page. Original blue leatherette. A working notebook (written mainly from the front with a couple of pages written upside down at the back) first entry dated 7 Dec. 1981, last dated 13th Oct. 1988, containing notes, drawings, diagrams and useful addresses relating to various projects such as a proposal for a theatre in Hong Kong, and with mentions of Leeds Playhouse, Swansea Grand Theatre, a Theme Park in Jeddah, the Royal Court Theatre, the Torch Theatre, Milford Haven, High Wycombe Competition submission, March 1987, Haymarket Theatre Leicester, Oct. 1988, notes on opera houses, and various other domestic projects. There is also a prose piece which decribes his frustrating journey to Hong Kong. Roderick Ham (1925 Ð 2017) was a much admired theatre architect who played an important role in the development of British theatre design in the postwar years. He designed the innovative Leatherhead Thorndike Theatre, the Derby Playhouse and the Wolsey Theatre in Ipswich. Very good indeed. Very good indeed.…