Reference
Z1606/1
Title
Personal diary
Date free text
18th July 1930 - 20th March 1932
Production date
From: 1930 To: 1932
Scope and Content
Volume focuses primarily on domestic life in Bedford at 66 Marlborough Road, with her father and brother Jim. Also includes the following subjects:
Leah teaching piano to children
Tennis and badminton
Financial investments
Theatre and cinema trips
Her father courting
Colleagues from her previous job with Igranic
Birth of her neice
R101 disaster
Jim's work at various building sites
Christmas, including presents, food and games
Gardening
Unemployment
Fashion
League of Mercy
Trips to Skegness (4/8/30), London (14/6/31), Keswick (22/8/30), Whipsnade Zoo (25/5/31), London (14/6/31), Biddenham (21/9/30), Cambridge (6/4/31) and Jersey (22/8/31), as well as numerous trips to Elstow, Cardington and Kempston.
Other subjects mentioned include a description of St Martin's Church (1/2/31), unemployment in Bedford (10/12/30), Jim giving blood (7/8/30), the Panacea Society (4/11/30 and 5/2/31), caoneing (17/8/30), suspected water contamination in Bedford (24/9/30), a description of All Saints Church (11/12/30) and a sketch show performed by the Moravian Scouts (28/3/31).
The diary is written in shorthand from 16th of November 1931 to the end. The diary features some annotations made by Leah in the 1960s and 1980s Also included is an insert from the sixth of September 1977, requesting that the diaries be sent to 'the Bedford Records Office'.
Authority to weed granted
Level of description
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