Z1063/3/18

File containing correspondence regarding the award of the Order of the British Empire to Henry Darlow.

3 December 1947 - 23 January 1948

From: 1947 To: 1948

Includes the following: - Letter from the Prime Ministers Office informing Henry Darlow that he was to be appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire [3 Dec 1947]; - Press notice stating that the King could not personally present all outstanding awards and that most will be despatched by post.[1 Jan 1948] - Copy letter from Henry Darlow to L M Helsby Esq., 10 Downing Street expressing appreciation of the honour bestowed upon him.[6 January 1948]; Letters of congratulations from the following: - William L Cuttle, Senior Tutor, Downing College Cambridge [8 Jan 1948]; - S H Loxton, OBE,Town Clerk of Shrewsbury [22 January 1948]; - Members and Hon. Secreatary of the Non-County Boroughs Committee [23 January 1948]; - Town Clerk of Norwich, Bernard D Storey OBE [20 January 1948]; - Letter from the Ministry of Health congratulating him and adding, 'I shall always remember the help you gave both by precept and by example when we were struggling with evacuation.' [1 January 1948]; - Enid Russell Smith, Ministry of Health [1 January 1948]; - Sir William Douglas, KCB, Ministry of Health [1 January 1948]; - Pearl Lawson Johnston, Womens Voluntary Service Administrator [10 January 1948]; - Letter from former [illegible] soldier stationed in Bedford during the war congratulating Henry Darlow on his OBE and thanking him for the help the army received from the Bedford Corporation [n.d.] - Dora Mason, 5 Linden Road, Bedford [2 January 1948]; - Robert M Peacock, Chartered Surveyor, 10 Lime Street, Bedford [3 January 1948]; - Eric Billingham, Hemel Hempstead Development Corporation. 'I always looked up to you as a model of what a Town Clerk should be and I hope that the tradition that your work has established may long continue to inspire...' [3 January 1948]; - AM Dudeney, Frinton on Sea, formerly of 36 Pemberley Avenue, Bedford.[4 Jan 1948]; - Ivan Daughtry, Surveyor and Structural Engineer, 7 Dynevor Road, Bedford [3 January 1948]; - Eric C Walker, Divisional Education Officer, Bedford, and his wife, saying how much he valued Henry Darlow as a colleague [5 January 1948]; - Letter from Mrs B Meeson, 42 St Augustine Road, Bedford, to Mrs H Darlow stating that she encloses an account for Elizabeth, and offering her congratulations on Mr Darlow's award [4 January 1948]; - Mabel Leigh, Maloja, Starkie Street, Preston [8 January 1948]; - Barbara McCorquodale, River Cottage, Great Barford, Bedfordshire [3 January 1948]; - CP Hankey, St Paul's Vicarage, Bedford [8 January 1948]; - [illegible] Clerk of London County Council [2 January 1948]; - G H Barnwell, Secretary of the Association of Municipal Corporations [5 January 1948]; - Town Clerk C J Newman, Exeter [1 January 1948]; - Victor Russell, 22 Chelsea Square, London SW3 [2 January 1948]; - John Whitehead, 6 Calverley Park, Tunbridge Wells, Kent [4 January 1948]; - Harry Brook, 97 Bromham Road, Bedford [2 January 1948]; - Former colleague O M Lanyer [?] Mornington, Cowes [1 January 1948]; - Letter from former Borough Councillor, 'my thanks for many instances of help while I was on the Council and especially for the way you so often made clear matters of which I (and not only I ) was abysmally ignorant and only too anxious to be enlightened...' V J Chorley, 9 Narrow Path, Woburn Sands, Buckinghamshire [2 January 1948]; - Grenville G Bullock, Stayesmore Manor, Carlton, Bedford [3 January 1948]; - Emrys Evans, Town Hall, Wallasey [3 January 1948]; - Stanley D Canvin, Corporation of Glasgow Water Department [5 January 1948]; - W C Knight, County Commissioner for the St John Ambulance Brigade, County of Bedford No.3 District [4 January 1948]; - Dorothy R Wood, Hon. Sectretary of the Bedford Division Conservative and Unionist Association, De Parys Ward Branch, 18 Park Avenue, Bedford, enclosing extract from minutes of meeting of the Association conveying unanimous congratulations, signed by Col.C L T Turner-Jones, 34 Pemberley Avenue [2 Jan 1948]; - Harold F Williams, Secretary of the Local Government Boundary Commission [3 January 1948]; - Consumers Tea Co.Ltd, Grocers and Provision Dealers, Tea and Coffee Specalists, Castle Buildings, Bedford [2 January 1948]; - Herbert A Hield, Town Clerk, Torquay [2 January 1948]; - Chief Constable's Office, Campbell Square, Northampton [1 January 1948]; - Ernest Field, Town Clerk of Deptford [3 January 1948]; - Mr Jerman, Wandsworth [2 January 1948]; - T Merrall, Hon,Secretary, Bedford National Savings Committee, 39 High Street, Bedford [1 January 1948]; - J Herbert Twamley, 31 Devon Road, Bedford [3 January 1948]; - Telegram from 'all at Totley' [3 January 1948]; - A H Faulkener, Sussex House, Hobson Street, Cambridge [2 January 1948]; - James L White, Swiss Cottage, 3a Shakespeare Road, Bedford [2 January 1947]; - F Webster, Local Government Boundary Commission [2 January 1948]; - O A Radley, Town Clerk, Leeds [1 January 1948]; - R Wade, London Area Director, British Broadcasting Corporation, Broadcasting House, London ' I have very happy memories of the year I spent in Bedford and also of the helpful co-operation which I always received from you.' [1 January 1948]; - R S Milton, Local Fuel Overseer, Borough of Bedford, Bedford Rural District and Kempston Urban District [2 January 1948]; - Ernest Storey, County Planning Officer, Trowbridge, Wiltshire [1 January 1948]; - C P Lilley, Manager, The London and Lancashire Insurance Company Limited, St Paul's Square, Bedford [2 January 1948]; - W E Doran, Chief Engineer, River Great Ouse Catchment Board, Elmhurst, Brooklands Avenue, Cambridge [2 January 1948]; - M A Symonds, County Organiser, Women's Voluntary Services, 24 St Loyes Street, Bedford, 'Everyone in Bedford is so genuinely delighted to know that your hard work and service to the Borough have been recognised in this way. You have always been so kind and helpful to the W VS so we feel especially pleased about it.'[2 December [Jan]1948]; - C B Townsend, Clerk, Bedford Rural District Council, 6a St Mary's Street, Bedford [1 January 1948]; - A Walmsey, President and F J Dix, Hon.Secretary, National Association of Local Government Officers, Bedford Branch, Public Health Department, Town Hall, Bedford [2 January 1948]; - D T Griffiths, Town Clerk, Southwark, London [1 January 1948]; - Thomas Cooper, Borough Librarian and Curator, Public Library, Harpur Street, Bedford [1 January 1948]; - Faith Rogers, Superintendant, Civic Restaurant, 38 Mill Street, Bedford 'You ought to have had a knighthood for all you have done for Bedford.' [1 January 1948]; - T E Cole, Inspector of Weights and Measures, Markets and Fairs, Weights and Measures Department, Town Hall, Bedford [2 January 1948]; - Telegram from Daphne Joynson [2 January 1948]; - R W Allen, Queen's Engineering Works, Bedford [1 January 1948]; - Mr Middleton, Town Clerk, Lancaster. [1 January 1948]; - [illegible] Harpur Trust Office, Bedford [2 January 1948]; - Horace R Neate, Brook House, Great Barford, Bedfordshire [1 January 1948]; - G Staughton Harris, W Keen & Co Accountants, Finsbury Circus House, Blomfield Street, London EC 2 [1 January 1948]; - Town Clerk of Birkenhead [1 January 1948]; - Baines, Linnet Lane, Liiverpool [1 January 1948]; - W L Jones, Sharman & Trethewy Solicitors, 1 Harpur Street, Bedford [1 January 1948]; - L C H Fuller, 'Murcott', Aspley Guise, Bedfordshire [1 January 1948]; - W E Sowter, 28 Beverley Crescent, Bedford, 'You most certainly deserve it and I am mightly pleased (excuse the American term)...' [2 January 1948].

No. of pieces: 1

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Cuttle, William,
Loxton, SRH,
Bedale, Harold,
Storey, Bernard D,
Russell-Smith, Enid,
Douglas, Sir William,
Lawson-Johnston, Pearl,
Mason, Dora,
Peacock, Robert M,
Billingham, Eric,
Dudeney, Albert Maurice,
Daughtry, Ivan,
Walker, Eric C,
Meeson, B,
Leigh, Mabel,
McCorquodale, Barbara,
Hankey, C P,
Banwell, G H,
Newman, C J,
Russell, Victor,
Whitehead, John,
Brook, Harry,
Bullock, Grenville G,
Evans, Emrys,
Canvin, Stanley D,
Knight, W C,
Wood, Dorothy R,
Turner-Jones, Col. C L T,
Williams, Harold F,
Hield, Herbert A,
Field, Ernest,
Merrall, T,
Twamley, J Herbert,
Faulkener, A H,
White, James,
Webster, F,
Radley, O A,
Wade, R,
Milton, RS,
Storey, Ernest,
Lilley, C P,
Doran, W E,
Symonds, M A,
Townsend, C B,
Walmsley, A,
Dix, F J,
Griffiths, D T,
Cooper, Thomas,
Rogers, Faith,
Cole, T E,
Joynson, Daphne,
Allen, R W,
Neate, Horace R,
Staughton-Harris, G,
Jones, W L,
Fuller, L C H,
Sowter, W.E.