Reference
Z778/1
Title
Journal by Mrs. Green, "My Experience in the Lake District from April 20th to October 12th 1922" who went, with her husband, to keep the country house at Grasmere belonging to James Twamley of Bedford.
Date free text
1922; Compiled: 1923
Production date
From: 1922 To: 1923
Admin/biog history
Emily Eveline/Evelyn SHARP was born in Bedford on 11th February 1878. In 1900 in the Wellingborough district, possibly in Rushden, she married Albert Joseph GREEN, usually known as Joseph (b. 28 January 1876, Berkhamsted, died 1961 in Bedford). They then moved back to Bedfordshire before 1911 as they were living in Box End, Kempston in that census and despite having been married 10 years they didn’t have any children. By the 1920s they were living in Woburn Road, Kempston and in 1929 moved to Renhold where they stayed until the 1950s when they moved to the Lovell Memorial Homes in Oakley. Mrs Green last appears on the electoral roll at Oakley in 1966, there’s no entry for her on the Bedfordshire electoral rolls after that despite her not dying until the October-December quarter of 1971.
Therefore we can date the things she wrote when it states she was 85 as being 1963, when she would have been living at the Lovell Cottages (no. 23 specifically).
Scope and Content
The very detailed journal describes the train journey from Bedford to Oxenholme via Bletchley and descriptions of the scenerey, wildlife, the weather, tourist attractions and other experiences in Westmorland. Postcard illustrations.
Published microfilm available in searchroom MIC 302
Reference
Published as a microfilm by academic publishers Adam Matthew.
Level of description
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