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    X351/5
  • Title
    PAVENHAM Women's Institute scrapbook (Highly commended)
  • Date free text
    1965
  • Production date
    From: 1965 To: 1965
  • Scope and Content
    Contents - Beds Magazine Vol 10 No 79. - Sketch by PW. - Foreword by Kenneth Martin. - List of contributors. - 1951 village sign. - Pavenham by Dorothy Schram with back and white photographs. - Shops and deliveries with black and white photographs of the village stores, bread van, milk van, meat van, travelling shop van, paper boy, fruit van and blacksmith at work. - Public services with photos of library van, postman, roadman and post office. - Certificate for best kept village. - Civic Trust award for old people's home in Plaiters Close. - Rush Industry by Glady Ross with photos of Sid Purser, Mrs Morgan, Mr Purser and Lt Col Young and drawings by Judy Morgan. - photo of Peter Walmsley gathering rushes. - Carnival by Muriel Green with pictures of the carnival queen and attendants. - WI Golden Jubilee and Pavenham WI. - Personalities by Edith Caddick, Muriel Green and Margaret Lake - the personalities are: Thomas Ashpole, Queenie Baldwin, Charles Copperwheat, Harold Thomas Gostwick, Miss Hyde Harrison, Dr Jack Linnell, Kenneth Martell, Jean Martell, Sid Purser and Mrs Purser, Rupert John Russell, Major Gen. Anthony G O'Carroll Scott. - Drawing of William Smith [?] by Peter Walmsley. - Deaths. - Harvest Festival. - St Peter's Church by John Bardsley, vicar. with details of Womens' Christian Fellowship, ringers, carollers and other church activities. - Birds of Pavenham by Lt Col E P Young (illustrated with tea or cigarette cards). - Picture of Moor Farm. - Farming in Pavenham by the Roff family. Pictures of potato harvest, lambs at Blakemore Farm and harvesting. - Trailer Park and Lido by Leslie A Warriss. - Babies of Pavenham by Hannah Mosley. - Fashion (includes cloth samples). - Food prices by Muriel Green. - Modern Living in Pavenham in 1965 by Jane Oates. - 49 black and white pictures of various named properties around Pavenham. - Trees of Pavenham by Lt Col E P Young. - Pavenham's Roman Road by Mary Wessel. - Map. - Susan Poole's travels from Siberia to Japan. - Village Hall. - Elections and parish council. - Flower show. - Wild animals. - Crafts (including sample of rush mat and lace). - Recreation. - Pets by Mabel Hyde Harrison. - Wild flowers by M E Porter with watercolours. - Butterflies in Pavenham by Lt Col E P Young. - County Primary School. - Education Jobs Opportunities. - The future by Gladys Ross. - Map with location of photographs earlier in the volume marked.
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