Bedfordshire Archives Service Catalogue
  • Reference
    JN73/60
  • Title
    Letter to Mr & Mrs Janes from Reverend Sidney Poupard, Kern Bungalow, Indian Walk Post Office, via Princes Town, Trinidad. Confirming accommodation reserved at Paramount Hotel, San Fernando. Disscussing itinerary for stay in Trindad.
  • Date free text
    17 January 1952
  • Production date
    From: 1952 To: 1952
  • Scope and Content
    Dear Mr & Mrs Janes, the Paramount Hotel, San Fernando have reserved two double rooms for you and I will meet you (and your friends) with the Austin Devon as arranged at 9.30am on Tuesday next. If I can get permission, I intend taking you to the largest sugar factory in the Colony at St Madeline which lies on route to Fifth Company. After lunch you will be able to enjoy a rest and at 3pm we will be going to the Baptist School here when the children will take part in a short programme to welcome you. After this we have arranged a meeting at 6pm at Fifth Company and I know our people will be interested to hear of your visit to Africa. As the people are not very punctual the meeting may not commence until about 6.30pm. At the close of the service I will drive you to San Fernando - the journey takes about 45 minutes. On Wednesday I would very much like you to visit Fourth Company which is easily accessible from San Fernando being a distance of about 12 miles. It was here that Reverend T S Payne laboured since 1918 and in church life and government it is by far the most enlightened of all out churches. He will be glad to entertain you to lunch on Wednesday and in the afternoon it may be possible for us to take a run to Sixth Company - the church built by Mrs Josephine Small of St Johns. We could then return for tea (Sixth Company is only 20 minutes car run from here) and then we could take you to San Fernando where you could get a taxi for Port of Spain. I have a meeting to attend at Sixth Company on Wednesday evening at 7.30pm. It would give us great joy to welcome you to our Mission in the South. Cordial greetings. Yours sincerely, Sidney Poupard.
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