Reference
Z145/218
Title
'Eighty five years of Kempston Memories' by Frederick Devereux. Includes another document of notes covering similar topics but with some additional material.
Date free text
1880-1967
Production date
From: 1880 To: 1967
old accession number 2380, 9603
Scope and Content
Chapters:
The school at Church End - teachers, poverty
The church was always full - All Saints church, condition of the clergy, church benefactors, little farm-workers, the Bell End fighters, bicycles
Cricket and Football - Kempston Rovers, cricket, club, rugby club, boxing club, Kemspton band, Zaro's circus. Includes account of the author's mother and a serious flood
Long hours, low pay - account of the author's working life from age 11 as a garden assistant, a grocer's boy, a stable boy, in the military, in the shoe trade, as a bakehouse worker, in the brick industry, for Messrs Sanderson & Mills, implement makers. Includes account of Mr Sanderson's inventions.
Those old characters - list of local 'celebrities, crafts and trades people in Kempston, Walter Harter of the walnut orchard, an anonymous philanthropist, the lady of the manor, Mrs Charles-Williamson, principal landowners.
What the Women did - lace-making and domestic service. Includes war service in 1914 and subsequent work for the Post Office
The years of retirement.
the second document contains much similar material but includes additional information on notable houses in Kempston and the Ends.
Language
English
Level of description
item