Reference
AU10/113/2
Title
Correspondence with Beatrice See
Date free text
November 1983
Production date
From: 1983 To: 1983
Scope and Content
Letter headed: "37 Chapel Road, Flitwick, Bedford, MK45 1EB. Phone Flitwick 0525-714319."
"Dear Mr Andrew Underwood,
Thank you so very very much for your letter and kindness in letting me have a photo of my great-grandparent's house in Dunstable St Ampthill, but you didn't say how much it was, so I will pay you when I know the cost, I will treasure it.
I really think that the lady and gent by the gate must be Daniel Billington's wife and son. She on the photo looks so much like the little one I have of great-grandmother I mentioned before. But she is older in mine. It would be great to be able to work that out. When I worked for Mr & Mrs Pollard I was 15 yrs old which would make it 1929. I moved with them when they went to Wilstead, I stayed around 6 months then came back to Millbrook with Cannon Cotton and family. Stayed with them until Matt and I were married, 1934 at Millbrook Church.
Much went on with both households, but I would not feel free to talk about that, because I think even now it would not be fair to talk about them anyhow. When I was with Rev & Mrs Pollard, Douglas Wolveridge who lived at The Cedars (his mother and father were matron there) came every Sunday to keep with the services, until he went away. A very tiny man name Mr Williams came from Ampthill to do the garden. He was a water diviner, showed me how to do it. I could not do it with a hazel stick as he did, but found out after I can divine with 2 metal rods.
I guess Matt could tell you more about Millbrook than I can, he cannot think or remember much about todays going on, but can remember way back. You see he has had coronaries, very bad, blinded one eye, had 2 strokes but with much perseverance can walk with a stick and talk, but of course sometimes he has times when words fail to come. I trust you can read scribble athritis bit troublesome today. I did not mind Mr Inwood seeing the letter at all, it would be best to see if we are in if you wish to come either of you. We are taken by ambulance Monday & Friday to Ampthill Centre and some days one or other of the children will fethc us out you see we cannot get far on our own. Our vicar Roy Hubbard comes once a fortnight on Thursday morning at 11o'clock to bring us communion. I aksed him a long time ago if he could tell me when Daniel Billington and his wife died as they are buried here but he said the records were not at the church but somewhere else, I cannot remember.
Well sir hope you can sort jumble out.
Yours respectfully,
Beatrice See"
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