Illustrated holiday diary of Mabel Pratt: the Cotswolds, 1947
File
MS. Top. gen. d. 81
Exercise book containing Mabel's diary entries for two separate cycling holidays in the Cotswolds, staying in Youth Hostels, illustrated with watercolour paintings and pen-and-ink sketches of buildings and rural scenes. Comprises:
- (fols. 1-23r) 'Two wheels apiece in the Cotswolds: Nine Days With Roger', and later annotated, 'The year I discovered the Y.H.A.' Mabel records a holiday with her son Roger, Aug 1947. They rode from Oxford to Charlbury, Rollright Stones, Long Compton, Shipston-on-Stour, Idlicote, Shottery, Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwick, Bidford-on-Avon, Willersey, Broadway, Stow-on-the-Wold, Lower Swell, Lower Slaughter, Bourton-on-the-Water, Burford, Minster Lovell and back to Oxford.
- (fols. 23v-29v) 'Three Days with Margaret', record of a cycling holiday with her daughter, Margaret, Sep 1947. They cycled from Oxford to Woodstock, Salford, Chipping Campden, Upper Slaughter, Bourton-on-the-Water, Stow-on-the-Wold, Charlbury, North Leigh and back to Oxford.
Dates
- Creation: 1947
Extent
30 Leaves
Language of Materials
- English
Shelfmark
MS. Top. gen. d. 81
Repository Details
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