Diary Entry: Went to Winchester to see Carmen. Diary notes: ‘Carmen Hall’ was a friend KPD met with, and occasionally stayed with, who seems to have been based in Dorset. (Rather than a performance of Bizet’s ‘Carmen’!)
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Diary Date: 21st November [1941]
Diary Entry: Went to Hindhead. Diary notes: Molly Browning, who lived at Hindhead, was a friend KPD met up with regularly over many years. As she had two weeks earlier, it seems likely KPD was visiting her friend.
Diary Date: 18th November [1941]
Diary Entry: Robin developed pneumonia. Diary notes: Robin was the elder child of the Gullands at Cumnor House School. He later grew up to be a distinguished academic: https://www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/fellows/robin-milner-gulland-FBA
Diary Date: 14th November [1941]
Diary Entry: Went to Catherington for day. Diary notes: Catherington, Hampshire was the home of Cecil & Eve Evershed, KPD’s first cousin and his wife, and later their son Bill and his wife Penny. KPD was close to Cecil, one of her Mother’s nephews, and frequently visited there.
Diary Date: 7th November [1941]
Diary Entry: Went Hindhead tea & supper. Diary notes: Molly Browning, who lived at Hindhead, was a friend KPD met up with regularly over many years, and so this may be the reason why KPD went there.
Diary Date: 31st October [1941]
Diary Entry: Went home for day. Diary Notes: Home, where KPD’s Mother and younger sister still lived, was still 35 Broxbourne Road, Orpington.
Diary Date: 30th October [1941]
Diary Entry: Gave in my notice. KPD gave half a term’s notice. As her next job was much closer to her Mother and family home, it is possible that was a factor, and also the fact that she was moving towards joining the war effort (she was to join the A.T.S. the following March).
Diary Date: 24th October [1941]
Diary Entry: Saw Kyte Guildford saw “Bitter Sweet”. Diary notes: ‘Kyte’ was another of KPD’s numerous friends – as she is mentioned in KPD’s diaries in the 1930s it is possible that she was a colleague from one of her jobs “Bitter Sweet” is a 1940 American musical film, based on an operetta by Noel …
Diary Date: 22nd October [1941]
Diary Entry: Had tea Mrs Meikle. Diary notes: Mrs Meikle lived at ‘Goblin Glade’, a large house in Farnham; this is the last mention of her in KPD’s diaries.
Diary Date: 17th October [1941]
Diary Entry: Went to Midhurst & Iping for tea & supper Molly Browning. Lovely day. Diary notes: Iping was one of the other villages (before 1910) that the Dells had lived, along with Midhurst (1910-14 in a house called ‘Summersbury’, Chichester Road, which can still be identified). Later Anthony Dell (KPD’s closest brother) lived near …
Aunt Pamela's War 