Reference
X928/1/3/3/10
Title
Book of Expenses. Index at front.
Date free text
1939-1940
Production date
From: 1939 To: 1940
Scope and Content
Notes include amount of butter made, eggs pickled, potatoes dug, jam/marmalade made, comings and goings of family and friends, servants' wages, furniture repairs etc, coals and anthracite, sundries includes purchases for the garden.
p30 Daisy calved 25th June.
p37 Cricket match 3rd Aug could not play owing to rain.
p40 Nick Babs & three children left Picts Hill & went to Renhold for 1st time for good.
p43 Treasure Hunt.
p44 'From 4th Sept no bill at Sainsbury's owing to war and book keeping'.
p45 1st Sept evacuated children came from Islington.
p46 'War broke out Sunday 11 am on 3rd Sept.'.
p47 4th- 9th Sept Evacuated sweets 6d head 33/4.
p69 Jane calved & her milk came in 1st time on 18th Dec 1939.
p101 butter reduced to 4oz per head since 1st June.
Includes letter from Robert Turner of Podington regarding eggs and pullets.
p282 5th Aug 1940 village Red X dance.
p286 Daisy calved twins 18th Aug 1940, calves sold 24th Aug.
Loan status
TOCATawaiting cataloguing
Level of description
item