Reference
Z678/1
Title
Walking holiday log books
These detailed log books were compiled, often weeks or months after the holiday described, from notes Mr Odell made at the time (apparently no longer extant). The later volumes contain tickets, postcards, itineraries and letters from travel firms.
Youth hostelling log book.
South coast, 1945; Peak District, 1946 and 1948. Hemel Hempstead, 1947.
Devon, Dorset and New Forest, 1948. Devon and Cornwall, 1948. Derbyshire, 1949.
Isle of Ely, 1949. Lake District, 1949. Kent, 1950.
North Oxfordshire, 1950. Wales and West England, 1950.
West Yorkshire, 1951. Includes a few postcards of youth hostels.
At dorse: typed account by P/JX 661030
David Odell, HMS 'Verulam', a submarine on Haifa Patrol, describing his encounter with a ship carrying Jewish illegal immigrants, 29 March 1948.
Date free text
1945-1951
Production date
From: 1945 To: 1951
Level of description
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