Photograph showing Ida Carroll.
(Date estimated)
From Ida Carroll's personal collection.

Ref: CARROLL/IGC/11/7/49

With thanks to the Ida Carroll Trust

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

Official magazine of the Royal Northern College of Music, covering the academic year 1977-78.

Pages 6-17 have been censored to protect personal data.

Ref: NSM/21

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

Official magazine of the Royal Northern College of Music, covering the academic year 1975-76.

Pages 4-17 have been censored to protect personal data.

Ref: NSM/21

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

Official magazine of the Royal Northern College of Music, covering the academic year 1974-75.

Pages 4-17 have been censored to protect personal data.

Ref: NSM/21

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

Official magazine of the Royal Northern College of Music, covering the academic year 1973-74.

Pages 4-15 are censored to protect personal data.

Ref: NSM/21

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

Official magazine of the Northern College of Music Old Students Association, 1973

Ref: NSM/21

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

Official magazine of the Northern School of Music, covering the academic year 1972-73.

Pages 36-47 have been censored to protect personal data.

Ref: NSM/21

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

Trefor Davies remembers the Northern School of Music's German teacher Fraulein Muller.

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

Trefor Davies remembers working with Sumner Austin on the opera productions at the Northern School of Music.

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

Trefor Davies remembers staying in people's houses and practicing on their pianos when he was studying at the Northern School of Music. The school did not have any student accommodation of its own so relied on its network of supporters to house students who weren't local to the area.

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

Trefor Davies remembers Ida Carroll offering him work singing Messiah.

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

Trefor Davies remembers lessons with Ellis Keeler at the Northern School of Music, 1960s.

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

Trefor Davies remembers piano lessons with Eileen Chadwick at the Northern School of Music.

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

Trefor Davies describes a lesson with Marjorie Proudlove at the Northern School of Music.

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

Trefor Davies describes a typical day at the Northern School of Music in the 1960s.

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

Trefor Davies remembers the operas performed at the Northern School of Music and special guest Ursula Vaughan Williams.

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

Trefor Davies recalls the atmosphere at the Northern School of Music as the Royal Northern College of Music was being designed in the 1960s.

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

Dorothy Ardern relays a very useful tip for manipulating children's movements in teaching music.

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

Dorothy Ardern remembers composing for the Bolton Youth Orchestra.

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

Dorothy Ardern talks about her lessons with Marjorie Proudlove, piano teacher at the Northern School of Music, 1940s-1950s.

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

Dorothy Ardern talks about the performances she took part in with the Northern School of Music, and supporting Louis Kentner when he gave a master class at the Northern School of Music.

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

Dorothy Ardern talks about how the teaching approach of Dorothy Pilling helped her in her later teaching career.

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

Dororthy Ardern remembers having lessons with Frederick Thurston at the Northern School of Music, 1940s-1950s.

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

Dorothy Ardern describes the atmosphere of the Northern School of Music from her student days in the 1940s & 1950s.

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