Diary Entry: Olive & I went to Camberley. Had tea & saw “Best Foot Forward”. Diary notes: With her friend Olive KPD again took advantage of time off to go to the cinema to see “Best Foot Forward”, an American musical comedy adapted from the stage. This film starred Lucille Ball (though her singing was …
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Dairy Date: 14th April [1944]
Diary Entry: Olive Grocock & I left for Camberley. Had lunch town & tea at home. Arrived Frimley Nan Poynton there. Diary notes: Olive was probably a family friend or former fellow nanny. These mentions of her (today and tomorrow) seem to be the only ones in KPD’s diaries. ‘Nan Poynton’ seems to have been …
Diary Date: 13th April [1944]
Diary Entry: Went Ufford & met Peggy, G [Grahame] & Mrs Tindall & Jane at Woodbridge. Diary notes: Having recently seen other family members, KPD now went to see her other nephew (Grahame, son of her closest brother in age terms, Anthony, and his wife Peggy) in Suffolk. Her sister-in-law, Peggy, was a Tindall, and …
Diary Date: 12th April [1944]
Diary Entry: Got back Felsted 9pm. Diary notes: After 10 days on leave, KPD was back at her A.T.S. base, but, as we shall see, not directly back to active duty.
Diary Date: 11th April [1944]
Diary Entry: Went Forest House for lunch. Took children to fair & out to tea. Biked back & had supper Lewis’. Diary notes: Forest House, near Tunbridge Wells, was some where KPD often visited. The children may well have been Michael and Tessa Dell, her nephew and niece (the young children of Martin, her eldest …
Diary Date: 10th April [1944]
Diary Entry: L[Lillian Richards] left 2.22. I biked Tun. Wells. Stay A[Aunt] Consie. Diary notes: Did KPD cycle (or ‘bike’ as she would have said) all the way from her mother’s home in Orpington to her Aunt’s house on Tunbridge Wells? If so it would be another 22 miles or so.
Diary Date: 9th April [1944]
Diary Entry: L[Lillian Richards] & I trained to D. Green. Biked Ide Hill, Hever, Chiddingstone, Penshurst, Leigh, Tonbridge. Diary notes: Another long ride for Lilian and KPD – using the train (presumably at both ends of the cycle ride) they managed over 22 miles at least.
Diary Date: 8th April [1944]
Diary Entry: L[Lillian Richards] & I biked Crockenhill, Eynsford, Wrotham (tea), Ightham, Oldbury, Ightham Mote, Riverhead, Dunton Green. Diary notes: I make this cycle ride as being nearly 40 miles, a pretty good effort for KPD and her friend Lilian.
Diary Date: 7th April [1944]
Diary Entry: Lilian Richards to stay. Diary notes: Lilian Richards seems to have been a friend that KPD made after joining the A.T.S. Like KPD Lilian was a keen cyclist.
Diary Date: 6th April [1944]
Diary Entry: My birthday. Tea & supper Lewis’ Diary notes: This was KPD’s 34th birthday and, as she was still on leave, it was spent with the Lewis family, former employers and old friends.
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