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Letter sent to Andrew Grimmer Underwood from Grandparents Grimmer (3 Station Road, Ampthill) Grandma: 'David Grooms has a motor bike & so has J. Bowles, a second hand one' [John Bowles, son of Herbert G. Bowles by 1st marriage] Death & burial Aunt Ada Grimmer (grandfather's aunt) 'I am pleased that she was taken to Norton for her burial it was her wish to be buried by the side of her mother and Uncle Edgar' [her husband] Spent day at 3 Church Street & Aunt Eva too 'we got on very nicely together.' Garden Party at Professor Richardson's 'Mr A.E. Marples M.P. will speak.' Grandfather going to the registrar's at Streatham where Aunt Ada died in a nursing home. 'Fred Grimmer is doing well at farming [Mettingham Hall, Suffolk]. When he came out of the amy he had saved £500. Grandad says he has improved the place a lot and got several men working for him...

12 June 1953

From: 1953 To: 1953

Grandfather: 'The old hens have now laid 1130 eggs. I'm not growing tobacco this year, have enough left' etc. Details of Aunt Ada's funeral arrangements. Called on Gertie at Weybread [Gertie Richardson, married to Revd Frank Richardson]. 'Saw the parson but she was out at Norwich. The parson remembered & asked about you.' 'After visit scuttled off to Walberswick, they have made a mess of the front with a new sea wall, cranes, diggers and bulldozers all over the shop... ' Stayed the night at the caravan. Collected cousin Join Grirrmer & wife Eva for funeral. Hearse 10 minutes late. Called in on Mettingham 'Aunt Edith enquired about you.' Registrar difficult at Streatham. 'Mr C - Grandfather's solicitor at Ampthill, Codrington. 'Aunt Edith' aged a lot. Saw Jackson (of Shuttleworth Collection) 'and told him they had not rigged the Bleriot correctly 9shown on television). He said it was a mock up from ours as Warden Aviation would not let television or other folk muck original about' Aunt Ada's affairs - 'I may have a very few of her coppers left'

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Underwood, Andrew Grimmer,
Grimmer, Albert Edward,
Grimmer, Annie,
Grooms, David,
Bowles, John,
Grimmer, Ada,
Grimmer, Edgar Robert,
Grimmer, Eva,
Grimmer, John Playford,
Richardson,
Marples, Alfred Ernest,
Grimmer, Frederick Alexander,
Richardson, Gertie,
Richardson, Frank,
Grimmer, Edith,
Codrington,
Jackson

family correspondence, Ampthill Station Road, motorcycles, DEATH, Norton, Ampthill Church Street, Members of Parliament, Streatham, farmer, funerals, hens, caravans, Shuttleworth Collection