Diary Entry: Village with Mother. Went to the Smallwoods for night. Meg & Peter there. Christopher sweet. Diary notes: The Smallwoods were friends from Berkhamsted.
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Diary Date: 13th July [1943]
Diary Entry: Lunch & tea Lewis. Diary notes: The Lewis’ were a family KPD worked for as a nanny, who became friends in Crofton, near Farnborough, living at Orchard Cottage.
Diary Date: 12th July [1943]
Diary Entry: Day Tun.[bridge] Wells. Lunch Aunt Consie. Florida. Tea Jerviswood. Supper Elaine & missed train, went to A[Aunt] Consie for night. Diary notes: Jerviswood (a house in Lower Green Road, Rusthall, Tunbridge Wells) was the home of KPD’s Uncle Claude Evershed and his wife, Clara. Elaine Dell (KPD’s sister-in-law) also lived in the Tunbridge …
Diary Date: 11th July [1943]
Diary Entry: Fritz to tea & supper. I had supper Orc[hard] Cot[tage]. Diary notes: ‘Fritz’ was ‘Fritz Hopkins’ and was related to Henry Dell, and often visited 35 Broxbourne Road, or may actually have been living there – the 1939 Domestic Register shows they were then: https://www.findmypast.co.uk/transcript/preview?id=TNA/R39/1264/1264C/018/34 Orchard Cottage, Crofton (near Farnborough, Kent) was the …
Diary Date: 9th July [1943]
Diary Entry: Left Linton. Went to Ufford to stay Tindalls. Grahame lovely. Diary notes: The Tindalls were the parents and family of Peggy Dell – Anthony (KPD’s brother) had married Peggy (1910-1991), his first wife and mother of his two children, Grahame & Jennifer. Their home, Hill House at Ufford was at Woodbridge in Suffolk.
Diary Date: 7th July [1943]
Diary Entry: Went to Little Linton, stay Dulcie Leggett. Diary notes: Dulcie was a former Nanny, and was a good friend of KPD, both before and after her marriage. Her son, Paul Rupert Leggett, was KPD’s godson. ‘Little Linton’ is in Cambridgeshire.
Diary Date: 6th July [1943]
Diary Entry: Tea Lewis’. Diary notes: 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: 5th July [1943]
Diary Entry: Leave. Arrived Orp[ington] nearly midnight. Diary notes: As usual KPD uses her leave to return home to Orpington to stay with her widowed mother and younger sister. [Below] KPD, on left, her mother (in middle) and Veronica, her younger sister (on right) photographed in c. 1958. The young child is yours truly!
Diary Date: 4th July [1943]
Diary Entry: Spent day Nancy. Tea Mrs Morgan. Diary notes: Nancy was a friend, presumably in the A.T.S., with whom KPD socialised regularly during the war years. Mrs Morgan (& her family) seem also to have been friends KPD visited.
Diary Date: 3rd July [1943]
Diary Entry: Tea Flora Vron & then walk over hills to Llangollen. Diary notes: ‘Flora’ is Flora Gardner, a friend from a family living near Berkhamsted, where KPD had lived years before, now living near Llangollen. ‘Vron’, near Wrexham, included a colliery (also called ‘Vron’). Today it seems to be called ‘Tanyfron’: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tanyfron
Aunt Pamela's War 