Diary Entry: Started at The Junior House, Wellingboro’ [‘Wellingborough’] school. Mr & Mrs Britton, John & Alan. Nurse Richards. Diary notes: Working at The Junior House, Wellingborough School as Matron (or perhaps ‘Assistant’ Matron), took KPD to a Boys’ School for the first time. The Junior House later became the Junior School and now the …
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Diary Date: 15th April [1940]
Diary Entry: Went home. Lewis’ tea. Home for KPD was still her Mother’s home, 35 Broxbourne Road, Orpington, Kent. The Lewis’ were a family KPD worked for as a nanny, who became friends in Crofton, near Farnborough, living at Orchard Cottage. Apparently KPD got to drive their Bentley, after they had taught her to drive …
Diary Date: 14th April [1940]
Diary Entry: We went to tea Forest House. Diary notes: There are references to visiting ‘Forest House’ in KPD’s diaries for the 1930s & 1940s, presumably as friends or relatives lived there. After Aunt Consie’s death (1951) these seem to have ceased.
Diary Date: 13th April [1940]
Diary Entry: We went to tea Mrs Ramedge. Diary notes: ‘Mrs Ramedge’ seems to have been a friend (perhaps a companion?) of Aunt Consie.
Diary Date: 12th April [1940]
Diary Entry: Went to stay Aunt Consie. Diary notes: ‘Aunt Consie’ is Edith Constance Beckwith Evershed (1868-1951), unmarried elder sister of Nellie Dell, and perhaps the closest of her Aunts to KPD, who visited and stayed with her on many occasions in her home near Tunbridge Wells, Kent . Constance Evershed (‘Aunt Consie’) as an …
Diary Date: 11th April [1940]
Diary Entry: Tea & supper Orchard Cottage. Diary notes: Orchard Cottage, Crofton (near Farnborough, Kent) was the home of the Lewis family, former employers of KPD who became good friends.
Diary Date: 9th April [1940]
Diary Entry: Went to Hampton for lunch & tea. Met Gertrude for supper. Diary notes: Gertrude was a friend KPD saw frequently – being mentioned in the diaries from 1933 to 1977 (as Gertrude) and to 1986 (as Trudie).
Diary Date: 8th April [1940]
Diary Entry: Day with Lewis. Anthony home supper. Diary notes: The Lewis’ were a family KPD worked for as a nanny, who became friends in Crofton, near Farnborough, living at Orchard Cottage. Anthony, KPD’s elder brother, was married to Peggy who had been staying with KPD and her mother. He served in the Royal Artillery …
Diary Date: 7th April [1940]
Diary Entry: Mother, Peggy & I walked round Keston Pounds (sic) [‘Ponds‘] & Farnboro'[ugh] Diary notes: Keston Ponds, in Keston Common, are still a pleasant place to go for a walk. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keston_Common (For background on ‘Mother’ and ‘Peggy’ – see yesterday’s blog post). Keston Ponds today: By Ethan Doyle White – Own work, CC …
Diary Date: 6th April [1940]
Diary Entry: Peggy to stay. My birthday. Diary notes: KPD’s 30th birthday. Peggy was KPD’s sister-in-law, married to her brother Anthony (the closest to KPD in age). Anthony had married Peggy Dell, (1910–1991), neé Tindall, in September 1936. She was his first wife and mother of his two children, Grahame & Jennifer. They lived in …
Aunt Pamela's War 