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Book of Memoirs

1860 to 1960

From: 1860 To: 1960

A small book filled with Albert Grimmer's handwritten memoirs. Written in the early 1950s, it covers some of his family history, plus memories and stories from his lifetime, places he has lived in, schooldays, his growing interest in cycling, bicycles, cars and motoring and going on to run his businesses in these fields, the Flitt Cycle Co. and the Flitt Motoring Co. Accompanying the book is a typewritten transcript.

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Grimmer, Albert Edward,
Grimmer, Robert,
Grimmer, George John,
Grimmer, Samuel,
Playford, John,
Grimmer, Edgar Robert,
Southby, Jane,
Grimmer, Josephine Playford,
Southby,
Southby, Harry,
Southby, George,
Woods,
Woods, Fred,
Gay, Harry,
Trowsdale, Tom,
Grimmer, Herbert Robert,
Grimmer, Bertha Ann,
Grimmer, Bertha Anne,
Grimmer, Beatrice Maude,
Grimmer, Madge,
Grimmer, Ena,
Grimmer, Eva,
Brown, Harry,
Edwards, Bert,
Francis, Annie,
Rands, Annie,
Turtle, Peter,
Allen, Douglas,
Meek, John,
Gordon, Percy,
Hensman, Arthur,
Hensman, Jonah A,
Searl,
Lewin, Guy,
Odell, Charlie,
Platt, Harry,
Platt, Liz,
Crawley, Sid,
Crawley, Joe,
Gould,
King,
Wingfield, Anthony,
Seabrook, Jack,
Shuttleworth, Richard Ormonde,
Orme,
Edwards, Claude,
Prudential Assurance Company Limited,
Redman Bros,
Flitt Cycle Company,
Flitt Motor Company,
Brown Bros Ltd,
Howard Engineering Works,
Morris & Company,
Shaw & Kilburn Ltd

schools, draper, market gardener, salesman, insurance, bicycles, cycling, cycle maker, bicycle repairer, skating, Bedford School, debt, debtor, cars, motoring, motor garage proprietor, motor vehicles, motor vehicle manufacture, motor vehicles, steam vehicles, racing, motorcycles, holidays, aeroplanes, Civil airplanes, flying, Ampthill Urban District Council, electricity, electrical goods, tractors, Ampthill White Hart Hotel, Sevenoaks, Harwich, Dovercourt, Norwich, USA, BEDFORD, Bedford St Cuthbert's Church, Bedford Castle Road, Bedford Bower Street, Bedford Goldington Road, Bedford Albany Street, Bedford Kimbolton Road, AMPTHILL, Ampthill Arthur Street, Ampthill Bedford Street, Ampthill Dunstable Street, Ampthill Gashouse Lane, Ampthill Avenue House, Ampthill Tunnels, Ampthill Park, Maulden Snow Hill, Ampthill Hazelwood Lane, Ampthill Church Street, Kempston Hardwick Hardwick Hill, KEMPSTON, Kempston Race Meadow, Kempston Cow Bridge, CLOPHILL, Torquay