Diary Entry: Packed with Miss Gardiner’s help. Diary notes: Miss Gardiner seems to have been a colleague of KPD at Cumnor House School.
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Diary Date: 28th March [1941]
Diary Entry: Went to Guildford. Saw “I married a German”. Diary notes: No film with this name can be traced, so could it have been a talk? There was a book “I married a German” published in 1938 by Madeleine Kent about her experiences in marrying a German Social Democrat opposed to the Nazis before …
Diary Date: 23rd March [1941]
Diary Entry: “Had tea Goblin Glade with Meikles & Kennards”. Diary notes: ‘Goblin Glade’ is a large house in Farnham. This is the only mention of the ‘Kennards’ (and the first of only two of the ‘Meikles’) in KPD’s diaries, and their identity is unknown. They seem to have been friends KPD whilst working at …
Diary Date: 21st March [1941]
Diary Entry: Went to Hindhead & tea Molly Browning. Diary notes: Molly Browning, who lived at Hindhead, was a friend KPD met up with regularly over many years.
Diary Date: 14th March [1941]
Diary Entry: Home for day. Diary notes: Home for KPD was still her Mother’s home, 35 Broxbourne Road, Orpington, Kent. This is the house in recent years:
Diary Date: 11th March [1941]
Diary Entry: I took Barnes to Guildford to be X rayed. Diary notes: As part of her role as Matron, KPD presumably had to take pupils who were injured to hospital. Seale to Guildford is about 8 miles – did KPD use her ability to drive (if the school had transport available), or did they …
Life in Britain in WW2 – some more memories
Last week I included some memories of life in Hampshire during the Second World War from my cousin (and Aunt Pamela’s first cousin once removed) Bill Evershed. Some of that came from a longer piece which is reproduced here: Lovedean in the 1940s I am now 83 and have lived in Catherington all my life. …
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Diary Date: 7th March [1941]
Diary Entry: Went to Godalming & Guildford. Saw “The Girl in the News”. Diary Notes: “The Girl in the News” is a 1940 British thriller directed by Carol Reed; it starred Margaret Lockwood and Roger Livesey. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Girl_in_the_News By Source (WP:NFCC#4), Fair use, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?curid=47219470
Diary Date: 5th March [1941]
Diary Entry: 2nd injections. Diary entry: Presumably following up on the immunisation for diphtheria from February 12th. Given the likelihood that diseases could spread quickly in the school dormitories, KPD (as a Matron) would be keen to illnesses spreading and to ensure all steps were taken to avoid that happening. (Given circumstances across the world …
Life in Britain in WW2 – some memories
Whilst Pamela Dell was keeping a diary for her own everyday use more than as a record of social or family history, for example, her short, sometimes laconic entries do tell us quite a bit about both, and also have prompted some memories from those who knew and remember her. The best example has been …
Aunt Pamela's War 