Bedfordshire Archives Service Catalogue
  • Reference
    AU10/31/8/1
  • Title
    File of correspondence largely around publication of "The Clock Strikes Five", as well as health and family matters and the doings of their respective cats, but also including the following: - death of Charles H.Matthews and Joyce's moving house etc. [Dec 1997]; - the village of Shepshed [Leicestershire] and environs [Dec 1998]; - Andrew Underwood's final retirement from Bedford Modern School and a story about Sir Anthony Wingfield's kindness towards servants [Jan 1999]; - flu virus [Jan 1999]; - James Lee-Milne's published diaries [Jan 1999]; - fire at the White Hart, Ampthill [Jul 2001]; - book lent to Charles Matthews by Sir Anthony Wingfield called "Bombed London" with drawings by Hanslip Fletcher and foreword by Sir Albert Richardson [Dec 2001]; - headmaster of Bedford Modern School's wife's aunt living in the same street in Shepshed as Joyce Matthews [Dec 2001]; - visit to Andrew Underwood by members of the Arnold family who purchased the old Ampthill House, built by Richard Nicholls, which was knocked down to make the Regency wing of Ampthill House in 1829 [Jun 2002]; - vandalism and theft of statutes from the garden of Avenue House, Ampthill [Jun 2002]; - alterations and structural problems at Foulislea Cottage, Ampthill [Sep 2002]; - biographical notes on Charles Matthews by Jan Smith [Jun 2002]; - examination successes at Bedford Modern School and the introduction of girls [Sep 2003]; - Ampthill's "Aragon Day" [Aug 2003]; - BBC programme on the Panacea Society [Aug 2003]; - visit to Christopher Fry by Bedford Modern School pupils [Sep 2003]; - biographical notes on Charles Matthews by Joyce Matthews including the fact that his given name was Sidney but he disliked it and, due to people at work calling him Charlie , he became known as Charles [2003]
  • Date free text
    1997-2003
  • Production date
    From: 1997 To: 2003
  • Level of description
    item
  • Closed until
    4037
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