Diary Entry: Tea & supper Lewis’, Mrs L’s birthday. 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!
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Diary Date: 7th February [1942]
Diary Entry: Home for supper & night. Diary notes: Presumably KPD was ‘living in’ at her temporary job as a Nanny with the Prynnes as where they lived (Farnborough) is very close to her home with her Mother in Orpington.
Diary Date: 1st February [1942]
Diary Entry: Tea home. Martin & Elaine there. Diary notes: Home for KPD was still her Mother’s home, 35 Broxbourne Road, Orpington, Kent. ‘Martin’ is Robert Martin Cromwell Dell (1904-1958), KPD’s eldest brother; ‘Elaine’ is Elaine Dell, née Pitt, Martin’s first wife and mother of his two eldest children (Tessa & Michael). Elaine Dell, née …
Diary Date: 30th January [1942]
Diary Entry: Tea home, Supper Orc.[hard] Cot[tage]. Diary notes: Orchard Cottage, Crofton (near Farnborough, Kent) was the home of the Lewis family, former employers of KPD who became good friends. KPD often seems to have eaten with them whilst she was staying at her home.
Diary Date: 25th January [1942]
Diary Entry: Went to temporary job Mrs Prynne Bramblewood, Farnboro'[ugh] Park to Jeremy & Judith. Diary notes: This job (for about 4 weeks) was in a huge detached mock Tudor house, most recently on the market for £2.15 million. Jeremy Prynne, born in 1936, was to become a distinguished academic and poet (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._H._Prynne) and either …
Diary Date: 23rd January [1942]
Diary Entry: Left T.W. [Tunbridge Wells] Went for interview Mrs Prynne & tea there. Diary notes: It seems that KPD was looking for short term jobs, close to her home, in the interim period before joining the war effort.
Diary Date: 22nd January [1942]
Diary Entry: Tea with the Misses Davies. Diary notes: The Davies sisters seem to have lived at Ewhurst, near Cranleigh. KPD met up with them quite often.
Diary Date: 20th January [1942]
Diary Entry: Went to Tun. Wells to stay with 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 and stayed with her on many occasions. Constance Evershed (Aunt ‘Consie’) as a young child Constance Evershed …
Diary Date: 15th January [1942]
Diary Entry: Tea & supper 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: 14th January [1942]
Diary Entry: Went up to town & saw M[Moona] off. Went to Ministry of Health & Supplementary Register. Diary notes: It is clear that KPD was getting ready to join up – and two conscription acts affecting women were passed in 1941 making it likely that she would have been called up with in a …
Aunt Pamela's War 