Diary Entry: Late for lunch M. Stevens, Burley Home for supper. Diary notes: ‘M. Stevens’ is probably ‘Mollie Stevens’, a friend. ‘Home’ was still 35, Broxbourne Road, Orpington, with Nellie Dell, KPD’s mother; (seen recently below).
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Diary Date: 9th January [1944]
Diary Entry: Went to Catherington for night. Diary notes: Catherington, Hampshire was the home of Cecil & Eve Evershed, KPD’s first cousin and his wife, and later their son Bill and his wife Penny. KPD was close to Cecil, one of her Mother’s nephews, and frequently visited there.
Diary Date: 7th January [1944]
Diary Entry: Lunch Valerie Buel House. Tea C.H.S. Miss Gardiner, Nicky & Robin. Went to stay Mollie Browning, Hindhead. Diary notes: ‘Valerie’ is probably ‘Valerie Evans’, an A.T.S. friend of KPD’s. C.H.S. is ‘Cumnor House School’, where KPD had worked for most of 1941 (the school had been evacuated to Seale, near Farnham). Mollie Browning …
Diary Date: 5th January [1944]
Diary Entry: Mother & I day Tun. Wells. Met A[Aunt] Consie, A[Aunt] Clara & Miss Bird for coffee. Lunch Forest House. I had tea & supper A[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 …
Diary Date: 3rd January [1944]
Diary Entry: Started leave. Home noon. Tea Lewis’ Diary notes: 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!
Diary Date: 2nd January [1944]
Diary Entry: Fetched Father Peace a.m. Took Maj. Knight to Harlow for service. Diary notes: A busy Sunday for KPD, and perhaps a good example of the importance of Christianity to the British armed forces during the War.
Diary Date: 1st January [1944]
Diary Entry: Late trip to Chelmsford. Diary notes: As this was ‘late’, it probably was another difficult trip after dark. (January 1st was not, of course, a Public Holiday in 1944- except it Scotland!)
Diary Date: 31st December [1943]
Diary Entry: Went Bury St Edmunds afternoon Diary notes: A 120 mile round trip.
Diary Date: 30th December [1943]
Diary Entry: Day Dulcie Linton Diary notes: Dulcie was a former Nanny, and good friend of KPD, both before and after her marriage. Her son, Paul Rupert Leggett, was KPD’s godson.
Diary Date: 28th December [1943]
Diary Entry: Went Colchester w/s to fetch vehicles but not ready. Diary notes: This sounds like a bit of a communication failure!
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