Illustrated holiday diary of Mabel Pratt: English tours, 1955
File
MS. Top. gen. c. 123
Hardback notebook entitled, 'Looking for Sketches', containing diaries of several solo cycling holidays, camping or staying in lodgings along the way. Watercolour paintings and pen-and-ink sketches are stuck in. Comprises:
- (fols. 2-19) 'Spring-time Camp', camping in Ewelme, Oxfordshire (Berrick Salome, Warborough, Roke), 16-21 Apr 1955
- (fols. 18v-66) 'Following a Dying Canal', cycling along the Kennet and Avon canal from the outskirts of Reading to Bath (Lower Padworth, Newbury, Hampstead Park, Hungerford, Little Bedwyn, Great Bedwyn, Wilcott, Devizes, Bradford-on-Avon, Lacock and home by train from Swindon), 2-16 Jun 1955
- (fols. 67-78) 'Lovely Long Crendon', camping holiday in Buckinghamshire, 8-11 Jul 1955
- (fols. 79-112) 'By the Coast of Dorset', cycling holiday, arriving at Dorchester by train (visiting Clifton Hampden, Litton Chesney, Burton Bradstock, Chesil Bank, Abbotsbury, Portersham, Weymouth, Lulworth Cove, Durdle Door), 5-15 Sep 1955
- (fol. 113) press cutting from The Observer about a petition to prevent the closure of the Kennet and Avon Canal, 9 Oct 1955.
Dates
- Creation: 1955
Extent
118 Leaves
Language of Materials
- English
Shelfmark
MS. Top. gen. c. 123
Repository Details
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