Reference
Z778/2
Title
Journal by Mrs. Green, continued from Z778/1 in an exercise book.
Date free text
1922; Compiled: 1923; 1949; 1963
Production date
From: 1922 To: 1971
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
Experiences in the Lake District, including postcard illustrations with captions; stanzas from the "Sheep Shearing Song" and press cuttings concerning fatalities to walkers in the hills.
Compiled: 1923
Contains press cuttings concerning James Twamley's bequest to two boy scouts who saved his daughter Beatrice from drowning in 1921, with comments by Mrs. Green.1949
Contains poems written by Mrs. Green then aged 85 years and at Lovells Homes, Oakley. c1963
Published microfilm available in searchroom as MIC 302
Reference
Published as a microfilm by academic publishers Adam Matthew.
Level of description
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