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Letter: from Christine's cousin at 3 Victoria Street, Dunstable, to Christine Dillingham at Kings Road, Flitwick - writer thanks her for her kindness and notes she enjoyed the stay very much; - comments that she has been poorly since she got back home; - notes she waited at Flitwick in all the rain, "You will not be surprised to hear I got a severe chill"; - notes she is giving this letter and a copy of the Dunstable Gazette to Bessie to bring; - comments the storm was much more severe in Dunstable than at Flitwick or Toddington; - notes she has wondered about Richard and if he got home safely; - "When we got near Dunstable it looked like the depths of winter, covered in white and two or three ways were blocked with hailstones and water, that such a lot of traffic came Houghton Regis way, out of Dunstable the High Street was like Oxford Street and Regent Street"; - notes they crawled along and were stopping every few yards and eventually she could not bear it anymore so she got out and walked; - comments that almost every house is affected; - notes the paper only tells of a trifle of the damage done; - comments that she thinks the noise that they heard must have been the cloud burst, "We always have very severe storms but nothing to compare with this. Everyone I have spoken to, have never seen anything like it"; - is looking forward to the visit of Christine, but asks to let her know she is coming as she cannot stand much company; - hopes they will get some nice warm weather as they have had such a long wet cold winter; - hopes they are all well and the family are getting stronger and better;

c 1918

From: 1918 To: 1918

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Dillingham, Richard,
Dillingham, Christine

weather, hail, storms, rain, Dunstable Gazette, letters, DUNSTABLE, FLITWICK, HOUGHTON REGIS, Dunstable High Street, Westminster Oxford Street, TODDINGTON