BMS/CWK/95/13/3

Letter to C.W. Kaye from Frank Langley of Turvey, written from Saundersfoot, near Tenby.

2 Aug 1933

From: 1933 To: 1933

Has taken the house at Saundersfoot with Mr & Mrs J.P. Stimson and family, and will stay for three weeks. Refers to some pranks of Stimson's brother, Willie. Reports that Willie worked in the Education Department in Nigeria after the war, but returned after 12 years, and is now, temporarily, a junior master at Bedford Grammar School while seeking another job. Jack Stimson is doing well as a barrister in Liecester. Refers to the well known music hall artist and broadcaster Gillie Potter, the stage name of Hugh Peel, who left Bedford Modern School in 1905 or 1906. His father intended him to be a clergyman. [His father was Reverend Brignal Peel, a Wesleyan minister, and his mother was Elizabeth Stimson] Also refers to Stanley McCullagh who got a job in the treasury department in Nigeria

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Kaye, Cecil William,
Langley, Frank,
Stimson, J P,
Stimson, William,
Stimson, Jack,
McCullagh, Stanley,
Peel, Brignal,
Stimson, Elizabeth

general correspondence, TURVEY, schoolmaster, barristers, Bedford Grammar School, Leicester, Nigeria, Bedford Modern School