Diary Entry: Left 10am Arrived Farnham 6pm & went to “Quiet Wedding”. Diary entry: KPD’s determination to seize every opportunity to enjoy leisure – after an 8 hour journey she went to the cinema to see “Quiet Wedding”. This is a 1941 UK comedy directed by Anthony Asquith, starring Margaret Lockwood. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quiet_Wedding By Source …
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Diary Date: 3rd July [1941]
Diary Entry: Saw Rossholme children. Went to Weston tea Miss Kidner. Read to the baby dormitory. Diary notes: Not for the first (or last) time KPD visited one of her previous employers, or some of her former colleagues. In fact Rossholme seems to have been a particular favourite of hers, and she quite frequently returned …
Diary Date: 2nd July [1941]
Diary Entry: Went to East Brent. Coach via Winchester, Bournemouth & Blandford. Slept farm. Diary notes: East Brent is a village in Somerset, not far from the coast and very close to Rossholme school (where KPD had worked from January 1937 to April 1940). A private girls school, Rossholme existed from 1888-2005: (http://www.rossholme.co.uk/rossholme-history). This was …
Diary Date: 27th June [1941]
Diary Entry: Met Kyte Guildford. Saw “The trial of Mary Dugan”. 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. “The trial of Mary Dugan” is a 1941 US drama and …
Diary Date: 20th June [1941]
Diary Entry: Molly B[Browning] fetched me & took me back to tea & supper. Diary notes: Molly Browning was a friend KPD met up with regularly over many years. She seems to have lived in Hindhead, quite close to the wartime location of Cumnor House School.
Diary Date: 13th June [1941]
Diary Entry: Went home, tea Mrs Lewis’. Diary notes: The Lewis’ were a family KPD worked for as a nanny, who became friends in Crofton, near Farnborough, living at Orchard Cottage. Their chauffeur had taught her to drive in the late 1920s (no driving tests then, of course!) KPD frequently called in for a meal …
Diary Date: 8th June [1941]
Diary Entry: P[Philip] Gaze’s ordination. Diary notes: Philip Gaze appears to have been on the staff at Cumnor House School. This entry mentions his ordination, presumably into the Church of England’s ministry.
Diary Date: 6th June [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 – it’s possible that KPD went to see her.
Diary Date: 2nd June [1941]
Diary Entry: Tea M[Mother] & V[Veronica] & they went home. Diary notes: Home was still, of course, Broxbourne Road, Orpington. Despite this being the middle of the war, KPD’s Mother and sister had been able to travel to spend a weekend with he, showing how everyday life did continue in war, despite Government pleas like …
Diary Date: 1st June [1941]
Diary Entry: Spent day M[Mother] & V[Veronica] & we went long walk, called at school. Diary notes: KPD always enjoyed walking. Interesting to see that her Mother, then 66, managed to keep up with her quite young daughters. By calling at school, she was showing her family where she actually worked.
Aunt Pamela's War 