Reference
Z1732
Title
Weather Records of Stanley Frederick Bryn Moore (1924-2003)
Date free text
1984-2003
Production date
From: 1984 To: 2003
Admin/biog history
Stanley Moore was born in Morriston in South Wales in 1924 but was brought up in Lowestoft, Suffolk, the home town of the Moore family, where he was educated at Lowestoft School. During the Second World War he trained as a navigator in the R.A.F. and it was in this capacity that he learned and became interested in meteorology.
After the war he became a valuer working for the Board of Inland Revenue and, in 1960, the Revenue moved him and his family from Lowestoft to Luton. In 1975, he became the District Valuer for Luton and, in the following year, the family moved to Sundon Road in Streatley. It was while living here that Peggy, his wife, bought him some basic meteorological equipment and he began keeping detailed daily records of the weather in Streatley, a practice that he continued until his death in 2003. His interest in meteorology grew and he bought slightly more sophisticated equipment and began writing monthly weather reports in 'Proclamation', the magazine of St. Margaret's church, Streatley, where for a time he was churchwarden.
Biographical information compiled by family members in 2020.
Archival history
Material held by the family before deposit.
Level of description
fonds
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