Diary Entry: “Went to Mr Farley about glasses”. Diary Notes: Presumably Mr Farley was a local optician; KPD wore glasses all her life.
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Diary Date: 28th November [1939]
Diary Entry: Had tea with Mrs Mills. Diary Notes: ‘Mrs Mills’ was a friend KPD saw, and went to the cinema with, for a number of years before and during WW2.
Aunt Pamela’s War – More Wartime memories (Part 7)
[KPD left – as well as her diaries – an old exercise book, falling apart, and not by any means full, but containing some family history information. Inside the front cover she has written: ‘I meant to rewrite this book…I hope I have not repeated myself too much”. I have tried to remove such repetition, …
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Diary Date: 22nd November [1939]
Diary Entry: Went to Conrad Veidt in “Spy in Black” with Miss Culverwell Diary Notes: 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 lived near Weston-s-Mare. “The Spy in Black” was a 1939 GB spy thriller, …
Diary Date: 17th November [1939]
Diary Entry: School party Diary Notes: School life in the 1930s was more relaxed than it seems to be today. KPD often mentions ‘parties’ and other extra-curricular events. Sadly for Rossholme school this all ended in 2005: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/somerset/4543249.stm
Diary Date: 14th November [1939]
Diary Entry: Went to “The Lion has wings” with Hull Diary Notes: ‘Hull’ was one of KPD’s colleagues as Rossholme School near Weston-s-Mare. ‘The Lion has wings’ was a 1939, black & white documentary style propaganda film directed by – among others – Michael Powell and starring Ralph Richardson and Merle Oberon. Producer Alexander Korda …
Aunt Pamela – More Memories (Part 6)
[KPD left – as well as her diaries – an old exercise book, falling apart, and not by any means full, but containing some family history information. Inside the front cover she has written: ‘I meant to rewrite this book…I hope I have not repeated myself too much”. I have tried to remove such repetition, …
Diary Date: 7th November [1939]
Diary Entry: Went to Bath to see Ruth Evershed, had tea & supper with her. Diary Notes: The Eversheds were the family of KPD’s mother Nellie (whose maiden name was ‘Evershed’). Dr Ruth Annette Jane Willatt, née Evershed (1914-2009), was KPD’s first cousin (she was the daughter of Rev.Trevor Evershed, Nellie Dell’s brother), and someone …
Diary Date: 31st October [1939]
Diary Entry: Went to tea with Polehamptons. Diary Notes: Presumably the Polehamptons were friends. As they lived at Winscombe in North Somerset, KPD almost certainly met them when working at Rossholme School near Weston-super-Mare.
Diary Date: 26th October [1939]
Diary Entry: Tonk to tea. Diary Notes: ‘Tonk’ was ‘Miss Tonkin’, a friend (possibly another Nanny); KPD quite often had tea or went to the cinema with her during the pre-war and war years.
Aunt Pamela's War 