Bedfordshire Archives Service Catalogue
  • Reference
    AU34/21/7/16/37
  • Title
    Letter from R P S Waddy
  • Date free text
    1 September 1989
  • Production date
    From: 1989 To: 1989
  • Scope and Content
    A typewritten letter from R P S Waddy (former Rector of St Andrew's, Ampthill) to Honora Grimmer, on headed paper from his new home at Manormead, Hindhead, Surrey: "Dear Nora, We had a party yesterday for Charles and Mildred Iball's golden wedding; she has been in an invalid chair for a long time now, but remains delightfully cheerful, and he wheels her round for walks. So their family all turned up, and I was rewarded with an animated gossip with the Whitmarsh family, all about Ampthill. They were obviously very sorry to leave. Their son has just left school and is starting on his first job at the Rover works in Birmingham. So that seems a suitable spur to write to you. Did I ever tell you that Arthur Fielder is in a rival establishment at the other end of Surrey which I visited years ago (when Colin Millington of Maulden was there). We wondered then whether to move there, but my Margaret did not take to it, and we were much happier coping with each other in Dorset for our last eight years. Now those cottages at Maiden Newton have been sold by Stacy and Giles Marking, and they have bought a bigger house near Beaminster, with 22 acres of land on which Stacy plans to keep sheep (as well as develop the whole estate - such energy!) Giles still flits round the world designing this and that, in India, in New Zealand, in Berlin (a vast reconstruction job, but it does not involve pulling down the Wall, alas) and this week back in Finland. Stacy has taken on a year's job as lecturer in Farnborough, on Television; (she has done it before in London University) and Havana is now working for A'Levels at Bryanston. And Christopher's offspring in Kent seem to be working hard too. Meanwhile I am enjoying my placidity here, and have no intention of doing any work! (though I am in charge of the chapel as well as the library; fortunately the chapel is used rather more than the library!) Our boiled eggs get ever harder and our baked beans ever messier, but they seem to suit me! I am glad that you can still get to that lovely church. I am contributing a sheep for Stacy's flock -black of course! All good wishes to Ampthill. Yours affectionately, Pat Stacy Waddy"
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