Diary Entry: Had supper Miss Kidner. Saw Nurse, Nicol & Frank Diary notes: All friends from her time at Rossholme. It is evident from her diaries that KPD frequently returned to see friends she had made in her various jobs.
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Diary Date: 8th August [1940]
Diary Entry: Went to Weston to stay Moona & Miss Culverwell. Alerts at night. Diary notes: Presumably Bristol or Cardiff & South Wales were the intended the targets. Miss Culverwell was a friend of KPD’s and almost certainly another of her group of women she met whilst training/working as a Nanny. She seems to have …
Diary Date: 7th August [1940]
Diary Entry: We took boys to Hampton Court & had picnic. Diary notes: Likely to be Paul (Leggett), son of KPD’s friends Dulcie and Peter, and a friend. The visit to Hampton Court shows that life went on, despite the War.
Diary Date: 6th August [1940]
Diary Entry: Spent day at Richmond with V.M.S.[Violet M. Stevens]. Diary notes: Violet Stephens (born 1883 and listed in the 1939 Register as a ‘Housekeeper’, was a friend of KPD she kept visiting until her death in 1948). It seems they met when V.M.S. came to look after KPD and her siblings in 1914 when …
Diary Date: 5th August [1940]
Diary Entry: Went to Hampton to stay. Diary notes: KPD’s friends Dulcie & Peter Leggett lived there, with their son, Paul – soon to be KPD’s godson. Hampton, in west London, is about 25 miles from Orpington, but there is no direct public transport route, so KPD would have found it difficult to go and …
Diary Date: 4th August [1940]
Diary Entry: Took Tessa to Crofton Church & then she played [with] Patricia. Diary notes: Tessa, KPD’s niece, and Patricia were both born in 1935. Crofton Church must have been near the Lewis’ home, Orchard Cottage. St Paul’s Church, Crofton, Orpington today.
Diary Date: 3rd August [1940]
Diary Entry: Patricia came to tea with the children. June fetched her. Diary notes: Patricia Lewis (born 1935) was a member of the Lewis family KPD remained friends with years after working for them. June [Lewis] was Patricia’s mother. KPD had worked for them.
Diary Date: 2nd August [1940]
Diary Entry: Went to lunch at Thornton Heath with Enid & Barbara, Errol & Judith, Rosemary & Dearie. Diary notes: Thornton Heath is a suburb of south London, part of Croydon. Enid and Barbara were relatives of KPD’s father (Henry Dell) and sisters; Errol and Judith were Enid ‘s children (born 1934 and 1939 respectively); …
Diary Date: 31st July [1940]
Diary Entry: Took children to tea Orc[hard] Cot[tage]. Diary notes: The Lewis’ were a family KPD worked for as a nanny, who became friends in Crofton, near Farnborough, living at Orchard Cottage. The ‘children’ were KPD’s niece and nephew, Tessa & Michael Dell.
Diary Date: 29th July [1940]
Diary Entry: Went home by coach from N.hampton [Northampton]. Mother, Tessa & Michael met me Orpington. Diary notes: Home was still her Mother’s home in Orpington, Kent. Tessa & Michael were her niece & nephew, children of her oldest brother, Martin Dell. They were 5 and 4 years old at this time. KPD was frequently …
Aunt Pamela's War 