Michael D.Heath-Caldwell M.Arch.

1950

Rev. Capt. Cuthbert H. Heath-Caldwell DSO, RN, (ret.) aged 60

Violet M. Heath-Caldwell aged 64 (ne Violet Palmer)

Patricia C.M. Heath-Caldwell – aged 30 – overseas (Australia I think)

Rosamond Heath-Caldwell – (Ros)

Diana Heath-Caldwell – (Danny)

James A. Heath-Caldwell – aged 20 – in Navy.

 Memoirs of Lt.J.A.Heath-Caldwell R.N.

Up in Londonderry in Northern Ireland when I was a sub-lieutenant or Anti-Submarine Control Officer in a frigate we had, I don’t quite know how, won the fleet fighting efficiency prize and as a result of that, one day we were out at sea giving a demonstration of how  squid worked, these were 22inch mortars, six barrels situated just in front of the bridge on the deck of the frigate and when they fired off, they went about 300 metres ahead of the ship and then they sank down and they were set to explode at whatever depth the ASCO (Anti-Submarine Control Officer) control set on it, and that was my job as Anti Submarine Control  Office I was in charge of the ASDIC team in a small little compartment on the bridge where we picked echoes of things and tracked them and  fired off our projectiles at them.

Normally in war time in war time this would be against an enemy submarine or an object we thought was a submarine so one day having been sort of having been picked out as an efficient ship we were entertaining about twelve to fifteen four-ring captains on our bridge.

This was five years into the peace after the end of the Second World War and there were a lot of staff who were being held on to at the Admiralty because the Admiralty did not quite know whether they would get into another war, possibly with Russia, so a lot of senior officers were twiddling their thumbs, finding courses and things to keep them occupied, and this particular lot of four-ring captains was presumably from London or from the Staff College.

All the live ammunition was loaded into our mortars for this particular exercise and we were all quite excited by this and seeing what was going to happen and actually see them exploding and making a noise, a bang, only not just one bang like that depth charge but six of them and they had a ripple exploding effect to apparently do the maximum damage to an underwater submarine.

So we decided to just pick some sort of echo up on our ASDIC and we went through the normal drill and when it came to the part “Home the fuses,” this was a part of the drill, when I had to press a button on the side of the cabinet that we had all our ASDIC apparatus, all our elementary computers and things, I had to press a thing to home the fuses, and what happened was in the excitement, and I think just normal training may have overtaken me because I may have not have pressed the switch to home the fuses and exactly the same thing happened with our six projectiles, that happened on that destroyer on the trip to Bangor (1945), absolutely nothing happened and I thought goodness gracious me someone is going to get into trouble for this so kept quiet about not pressing the button to home the fuses.

So I kept my mouth firmly closed and it was a few years after the war and everybody was in a sort of a bit of a tizzy about the Russians and that sort of thing there, nevertheless people enjoyed life and they were not really quite so efficient as all that and I am quite sure that these days if a frigate fired off its squid and they did not explode there would be a real investigation to find out what had caused that. There was no enquiry and the gunnery officer checked over the numbers of the bits of ammunition he had used and that was dealt with and nobody said any more. 

Another thing that happened was that again we were firing off our projectiles and on this particular occasion we used dummy projectiles that were 22”hollow, they had no explosive in and they were designed to be fired out of our mortars in exactly the same size as the squid mortars, only they floated once they hit the sea and could be recovered by our sea boat and could be used again.

It was just an economy drive, you don’t want to use live ammunition every time you do an exercise, and in this particular occasion I picked up a fairly strong echo ahead, or at least my crew did, and we decided we would target it and everything went according to plan. There was this large echo and we twiddled our knobs and followed the echo in towards us, and set the dummy projectiles to target this particular echo.

So everything went according to plan, I must have pressed the fuse button because the projectiles left the ship and they didn’t have to explode but everything else went right and the sea boat was launched and when they got to the six projectiles to take them out of the sea and bring them back to the ship, in the middle of the pattern they found a large fishing net with floats on and one large salmon in it and a dog fish, a shark. So it was not such an unsuccessful exercise that time at all. I don’t quite know what happened to the net, I expect it was used for fishing after that. And that was another thing that happened in Londonderry when I was there as a Sub-Lieutenant. 

Diary of Rev.Capt. C.H. Heath-Caldwell D.S.O. R.N. ret.

Sunday 1^st January 1950

HC Chilfrome, M.P. Cattistock. Damp raw day. Cameron went sick, and Jimmy and I decided that the women would get on better if they could behave more charitably to one another. John and Rosamond returned from their honeymoon  in the Scilly Isles. Reading ‘The Big Fisherman.” General and Anna came in after tea.

Monday 2^nd January 1950

DAMC expenses from Miss Bent: Letter from Knight & Son re Completion of Linley Wood sale. Sotheby’s catalogue (books) , 40 Linley Wood books, including one rare one call “A Mirror for Magistrates,” by William Baldwin 1559. Only 7 other copies recorded, to be sold 24^th January 1950.

Letter from Shilly.

Sent cheque to Miss Bent and PAYE to Inland Revenue.

Visited Cattistock Lodge after taking Jimmy to Maiden Newton to catch 1.10 train. Bristol, Crewe, Stranraer,  Londonderry where he joins the HMS Loch Tralaig, frigate.

Tuesday 3^rd January 1950

Mild – Read “No. of Khan Frontier” (?) Telephoned Neal & Williams, Yeovil 944 –

Bought shaving soap and toothpaste  (1/6) 10lbs balancing(?) meal.

Meet of Cattistock Hounds.

Cheque for Jubilee Trust (DAMCobE) to Midland Bank.

Mixing paint for dining room

John and Ros off to London by 4.40 train.

Thursday 8^th January 1950

Received DAMC bank statement. Two apples trees and peach tree arrived yesterday. All yesterday and today Violet and I painting dining room with Wallchurn(?), apple pear and pink. (eau de nil). Cleaned up garage.

Paid Pension bill 6.4.8-

Wrote to Mrs H. Poole re Lodge Mortgage.

2/-9 bill to E.H. Taylor.

Friday 6^th January 1950

Posted above letters.

Planted Espalier Apples. – Adam Pearmain. Rosemary Rosset.

Peach – Amden June.

Bought 2/6 book stamps. Hawood tested carpet sweeper.

Dewdney planted apples (cordon?) and peach.

Cashed cheque 30/- , paid Dewdney.

Walk up round head of valley from East to West – bracing.

DAHC accounts up to 12.30
Brought in pink hyacinths.

Saturday 7^th January 1950 (a)

Attended to hens. Wound clocks.

WRS/MS of 6^th January re Lodge mortgage.

Crabb, paid bill for shock absorbers CAA 9.17.6

Wedding photos arrived.

Sowed 1box May King. Transferred 7 lettuces from outside to greenhouse, three hyacinth bulbs into bowl.

Mrs Baxter to tea at Lodge.

Bamboo garden canes –

Whine and Edgdes, Godmarstone, Dorchester.

Shaving soap, tooth paste 1/-6

Pearsons bill wedding expenses 1.4.8 (paid?) etc.

PO 2/-9 E.H.Taylor –

Dewdney 30/-

Stamps 2/-6

Monday 9^th January 1950

Mild – Rubbish collection. Letters during morning and pm. Two trailer loads from Luttrells.

Monday 9^th January 1950

Cheque £6,500 from Knight & Co – Remitted to Lloyds Bank, Dorchester, to be paid to Lock, Reed, Lock for Mortgage.

Bankers Order to Lloyds Bank, in favour of D. Nat Mut.

and Archaeological for

2 entrance fees 23/-

2 subs 2.17.-

Letter to Mr Poole.

Receipt of cheque – Altas Insurance Co. – Life Policy 7.6.4 and 5.7.3

Paid Crabbs Bill 9.17.6

Shock absorbers, and window repairs.

Letter to M.V. 212 Old Christchurch Road, Bournemouth. Re ½ duty licence.

Tuesday 10^th January 1950

Dewdney tying up apple trees and working on paths.

Diana to Yeovil, dentist. Letters from Peter Taylor re  furniture sale.

Visited Lodge. Distressed by Grandma’s way of speaking to Cameron who is doing her best. Working on china cupboard for garden room.

Tuesday 10^th January 1950

Letter to Jimmy – Account book to Miss Bent. Four A.R.E. to Admy (Admiralty?)

Wednesday 11^th January 1950

Mild, cold bath.

Slip to M.V. Insurance Co. 70/74 Commercial Road, Portsmouth.

Putting up cupboard in garden room. Pm walked to Maiden Newton to Gould.

Letter from W. Nunn, Galphay Manor, Ripon, Yorkshire.

(Vice Admiral Wilfred Nunn – wrote “Tigris Gunboats: The Forgotten War in Iraq 1914-1917”)

Wednesday 11^th January 1950

Letter to T.H. Taylor re Furniture –Letter to M.V. Insurance, Portsmouth

Gould , hinge, Jeyes(?), Thaipt(?), screws.

Thursday 12^th January 1950

Foggy to begin with, later mild breeze. Finished fixing cupboard in garden room and curtain rod in dining room. Moved 3 pullets to join main party. Brought in a tub of hyacinths.

Mother came to tea.

Writing pad 1/-

Income Tax Refund received £35.5.

Friday 13^th January 1950

Lunch and tea at Lodge. Moved wardrobe into garden room.

Walked via Wallis farm, along Yeovil road and back through (Chaning bollden?) and Badgers sett.

Dewdney planting shallots.

Ordered ½ dozen Claret. Pomls of 1918 at 11/-

1 bottle pale sherry at 17/-6

1 gallon medium dry draught cider.

Cheque – Shergolds £2 – Dewdney 30/-

Saturday 14^th January 1940

M.P. Transferred hyacinthe to bowl. Fixed up pictures in garden room.

Electroluxed study and book shelf.

Sunday 15^th January 1950

Hm Cattistock 8- to Chilfrome.

Monday 16^th January 1950

Paid Telephone bill – 12.8.3. Posted airmail to Pat.

Application for DMC & GC grant posted to General Secretary, 30 Devonshire St, London, W.1.

From ‘The Human Situation’ by J.M. Dixon 1937 –

Cogito, ergo sum said Descartes. I think therefore I am.

He descried a platform or rather an undeniable proposition as the foundation of his philosophic thought. His successors have not found it either undeniable or sufficient. They have rejected too such alternatives as I act there I am. I desire, therefore I am.

Let me suggest still another. No philosophers or men of science have so far had the (handicord?) so far as I know to deny us our pains. They relieve us of all else. They have taken from us all personality, all freedom, all save our very selves. They have however left us all sorrows. Let us take this as all proposition. “I suffer, therefore I am.”

And let us add to it the converse and equally true statement – “I am, therefore I suffer.”

Shergold  power plug – 6 gallons pink paraffin and two 5 am plugs.

Pd Shergold 5/- altering power plug in garden room

Tuesday 17^th January 1950

Bright and colder. Visited Lodge. Brand 4 gallons mead. 4 7

Paid Hatchs 2/6 for new window catch Jimmy’s room.

Wednesday 18^th January 1950

Carters seeds arrived – Dewdney at Lodge pm.

Gave Mother Knights bills. Filled lamps. 2 eggs.

Breune(?) – 3 gallons mead.

Dewdney ½ day at Lodge

Thursday 19^th January 1950

Letter from Bank re £10,000 – Telephoned – fixed up appointment for 11.

Telephoned Dorchester electrician.

Friday 20^th January 1950

To Dorchester with Violet. Spent morning in Lloyds Bank with Jordall (Gullnagg, Sullnagy?) dealing with deposit of £10,000.

Photograph to (Story’s) to be framed.

Bassett at pm – Eyes tested. Dr Chamberlain.

Lunch J & J 10/-

Dewdney 30/-

Mr Dean p my 3/-

Saturday 21^st January 1950

Would clocks – Forenoon writing letters re Annuity Insurance.

Telephoned Neal & Williams re bath – cancelling order.

Writing letters to C.E. Heaths & Co re annuity.

Wrote Pll Taylor and Joe Knight.

Checked inventory with sale catalogue. Reckoned my share at £515.

Sunday 22^nd January 1950

Svc Cattistock 8.0. MP. Maiden Newton 11.

Wrote Ros and Jimmy.

Monday 23^rd January 1950

2 Covenants from Chief Inspector of Claims, (Handudes?)

Estimate for bath from Adams – Letters from Kit and Pat.

Visited Lodge. Walked Maiden Newton and back via Chilfrome.

Tuesday 24^th January 1950

Very sharp frost. (Tynille?) with Grandfather clock.

Wednesday 25^th January 1950

Mort of faluran(?) fiddling with garage electrics.

Transfers of following Linley Wood securities signed and returned to Knight & Sons:-

£600 3% Government Commonwealth of Australia 3% - 1965-1967

£2000 ditto 1963-1965

£1096.9.2 Savings Bonds 1960-70 (in duplicate)

£444 British Transport guaranteed 1978-88 (in duplicate)

£11,000 Commonwealth of Australia 3 ½ % Bonds due 1^st  Dec 1966

£5000 5% ditto Extended Load 1925

J. Luttrell – 4 trailer loads manure 12/-

Thursday 26^th January 1950

Telephone from Taylor – “Mirror for Magistrates.” £680

Letter to Heath & Co re Life Insurance & Annuity.

Letter to Midland Bank re 135 to DAHC & GC to deposit

Tel (mery?) to Midland Bank re above

Adams commenced bathrooms.

Friday 29^th January 1950

Wrote to Pat.

Lunch and tea at Lodge. Still freezing hard.

Cesspit pump refund to (fundin?)

Bought N.H. Stamps (20) – cheque £4 Paid Dewdney 30/-

Dewdney pm at Lodge.

Adams men and electrician at bathroom.

Cheques Schedule A to Linley Wood

Crewe District 109

Stoke £39.14.3 (and redn £27)

Dewdney at Lodge pm. Paid Dewdney 30/-

Cheque £4

N.4 Stamps 4.13.6

V.C. Nobbs papers 1.13.3-

Saturday 28^th January 1950(a)

Sunday 29^th January 1950

Still cold – just about 32 7 under cherry tree.

7.0pm – Legion dinner at Saville Hall last night. Good speech by Captain Shoobridge on Legion Activities . On the whole a good show, but too much separation, gents and others. Also, not enough beer.

This morning 11am Sung Eucharist. Mrs Bates, Mrs Dean, several children and myself. Church was bitterly cold but having a good (Uucle?) coat it did not worry me.

Evening Chilfrome. Locked up (Milturs?)

Monday 30^th January 1950

Thaw set in (temp 44º) After pm service 17^th quite by enough. Before lunch wrote to Miller and Daphne. Swept study chimney – after lunch firewood from Galpins. Tea at Lodge.

N.H. 1 – 2B 64.43.72.D

RF 95B to County Office, (street name?), Dorchester. With 4 stamps

Bread(?) £4

Firewood 2/-6

6 gallons pink paraffin

2 door mats

Gumboots 22/-6

Lighter spirit 1/-3

Tuesday 31^st January 1950 and Wednesday 1^st February

Letter from Miss Bent re covenant and presentation fees.

Telephone from Bassett re pictures

Letter from Amy Board(?) (Amy Bard?)

Wrote to (Amy Bond?), Colson, Miss Bent – Prepared pots and (cokes?) for kids. Violet, Danny, Tab and I to Dorchester Corn Exchange to see the Salisbury Players in Noel Coward’s “Tonight at 8.30.” Three plays, “Hands Across the Sea,” “Still Life,” and “Family Album”. Well acted, and I thought “Family Album” was the best.

Thursday 2^nd February 1950

£70 for DAMC from Sunday services. Gale – commenced painting bathroom. (Paid Dewdney £2 – crossed out)

Friday 3^rd February 1950

Lunch at Lodge. Drove Mother to Chilfrome House to tea with Mrs Kennard. Painting bathroom. Gale and rain.

Paid Dewdney 2. (10/- in advance)

Replaced broken glass in greenhouse. Letter from Jimmy.

Saturday 4^th February 1950

Rain. Sowed “Mauds Beauty’ (tomato)

Finished painting the bathroom, white Wallcharm.

Knight & Son – re C.E.Heath letter

Linley Wood Policy No. 34876/HL 11173

C.E.Heath & Co. – Proposal Form and letter re furniture insurance.

Sunday 5^th February 1950

AM. Chilfrome, remainder of congregation Mr Egans and Mr Dean.

MP. Cattistock – Gale and rain. Short walk up Chalington Road and back by Badgers.

Dewdney at Lodge whole day.

Friday – cheque £5

Sunday – cheques – Mitchels 4.6.0

James ht – 10.5.

N Pearce & co 18.4

Tuesday 7^th February 1950

To Dorchester. Visited Lloyds Bank

Invested remaining 200 a piece for the children in Term Debentures.

My own 2,000

500 Amalgamated Metal

500 Shell Transport

500 (Stewart?) at Lloyds

500 ICI

1,000 Dorchester Building (Society?)

Examination for Life Insurance by Dr (Deom?)

Florence Road – Satisfactory, blood pressure a little high. Bought tools, slippers, bath fittings, stuff for (loon corns?)

Deposited Pound House Title Deeds in Bank

Wednesday 8^th February 1950

Small(?) for God from Kit

Sowed lupins, verbena, plants, daffodils in bowl, wrote to Jimmy.

Thursday 9^th February 1950

2 cwb potatos and seeds – 22/-

Laid lino in passage. Wrote to Kit.

Rain and gales.

Sunday 13^th February 1950

MP. Maiden Newton.

21.2.1950 (bought 1950)        in 1955  Feb 1961

500 Amalgamated Metal

£1 shares ordinary (17.10)                  625 - 550

150 Shell Transport

1 ordinary (65/8 ¼ )                            1200    637

200 Stewart & (Hyds, Lloyds?)

1 Units (52/3)                                      £480    560

200 I.C.I. ordinary stock (41/-6)         800      448

Stamp duties – 39.10 conaing(?) 20.18.9

125 Loeur Bos

To cash open 8% cum pref £1 units  - Stamp duties £17,  commission £9

Monday 14^th February 1950

To Dorchester to sign Tax affidavit re Linley Wood (taxes? Times?) Valued at £700 Bought some tools.

Strawbridge and Mrs Huff to tea – Arranged to go to Bee meeting on Saturday next.

Painting bathroom door.

Visited to (Mines and ?? re bamboo)

Still raining and blowing.

1^st Premium of £4 to National Mutual Life Insurance

£4 a month for Life limited to 10 years payout. Sum assured £421 with profits.

Tuesday 15^th February 1950

Telephone Case, re bee meeting tea.

Wednesday 16^th February - Friday 17^th February 1950

Tummy trouble (Malaria?)

Sowed Victoria, Astes, dwarf sabious

Tomatoes and Rainbow lupins

17^th February 1950

£996 in Dorchester & County of Dorset (Eamaine?) Building Society

Saturday 18^th February 1950

To Bee Meeting at Sherborne with Strawbridge  and Mrs Huff. Interesting lecture on Mead by L. Colonel Gayse.

Sunday 19^th February 1950

To 11 MP and (MC?) Maiden Newton

Pm, took Wendy for a walk via Chilfrome along the wet lane to Sandhills.

Monday 20^th February 1950

Wrote – Case, Boultrop, D.H. Nobbs, Drinds(?), Pat, K.

Tuesday 21^st February 1950

Salisbury Players at Dorchester “The Bird in Hand”

Furnishing Insurance letter to C.E. Heaths & Co.

Dewdney 7 hours at Lodge

Wednesday 22^nd February 1950 – Ash Wednesday

Sv Cattistock 8.

Tea Harris’s. Took 2 pills –

Marley tiles laid in kitchen and garden room.

Laid lino in study.

Paid Electricians bill – £11.5.5

Towels – (Genges(?)) £ 4.5

Mrs Paul – chnly(?)  £6.16.6

National Mutual Life Assurance Life Policy No.67722 lodged with Lloyds Bank, Dorchester Ref. No. 5371

Monthly premium £4 for 10 years from Feb 1950, sum assured 421 with profits.

Thursday 23^rd February 1950

Polling day. Walk, warm and damp.

Friday 24^th February 1950

Lunch and tea at Lodge

Sowed Cosmos & Schizaultern – Pricked out May Queen lettuces in box.

Paid J. Adams 37.19.8 for bath

Saturday 25^th February 1950

Paid for Stoneham, Gold Boyn(?), Study of (books?) 7.16

Monday 27^th February 1950

8.m Sev Cattistock off MP aft MP at Maiden Newton yesterday.

Pm, walk round the hills with Wendy

Relations at the Lodge were a bit strained, but now all is peace.

This afternoon collected load of fire wood from Galpin at Tolles(?)

Tuesday 28^th February 1950

Walk. From St.Quentin and across country.

Wednesday 1^st March 1950

DAMC meeting in Dorchester. Dewdney (hard?) parsnips.

Thursday 2^nd March 1950

Walk round hills, took Wendy.

NH card to Miss Bent. Sowed marrows, melons

Wednesday 8^th March 1950

Planted 2 rows Sharpes – (Furtoron in hangard??)

Thursday 9^th March 1950

Mild, sunny – Finished painting greenhouse – 2 coats. Short round after tea. (pods winnth Merdus?) 3.12.1

Friday 10^th March 1950

Paid Tilly 4.11.5 for Jimmy’s motor bike.

Wrote to (Bouls?) re Insurance Policy.

Saw three badgers at about 6.45 – is 40 minutes after sunset.

East wind all day, later turning westward.

Dewdney sowed 2^nd row broad beans, and spinach and main crop peas.

Sunday 12^th March 1950

AM Cattistock 8. MP Maiden Newton 11.0. pm walk to Lower Wroxall and back by (east?) lane, put up a snipe in the swampy meadow opposite Sandhills. Saw a weasel on railing tin.

Monday 13^th March 1950

Load of manure from Lodge. Walk with Donald pm.

Various wind after tea. Paid Palmer £88 for (balemins and floors?)

Thursday 16^th March 1950

Transfer for £200 ICI Ordinary £429

Sunday 19^th March 1950

Am. Cattistock 8.0am  - 11. Maiden Newton.

Monday 20^th March 1950

Letter from Shilly.

Wednesday 22^nd March 1950

Fine yesterday. Dewdney cut grass, netted fruit trees and sowed greens and turnips. Scaped half study roof. Griffiths “Jehovah’s Witness” entertained us from 4.30 – 7.30. Violet went to WHU service in Dorchester. Paid Tilly to (stay over?) 5/10-

Thursday 23^rd March 1950

P.C with address to AA Bristol Tel. Bristol 33846, 34193.

Tuesday 28^th March 1950

A.A. membership No. H.80007 Bush House, 15 Christchurch Road, Bournemouth.

Wednesday 29^th March 1950

Paid Meech 12/- 1 sack potatos

Letter from Kit.

Friday 31^st March 1950

Party at Luftons

Cocktail party McKimms.

Saturday 15^th April 1950

To Collection (Mary?) – Dorchester.

Remittances Card, Annual Return, Monthly Tax deducted card and cheque for (reimburse?)

Popes essay on Man 1770

“Hope springs eternal in the human heart, Man never is but always to be blessed.

Know then thyself presume not Got to scan

The proper study of mankind is man

Placed on this isthmus in a middle state

A being darkly (mise?) and rudely made.

Here sent us rest; the universal cause

Add to one and but add by various laws.

For forms of government let fools content

Whatever is best administration is best

For modes of faith let graceless zeolets fight

This cant is wrong when life is in the right.

In faith and hope the world will disagree

But all mankinds concern is charity.

Tuesday after Easter, 11 April 1950

Have been too much occupied to write in this diary for the last three weeks.

Easter was wet and windy and cold, particularly Monday.

John and Ros arrived Saturday evening (6.29) returning to London today (12.14)

A lovely bright day, westerly wind, lovely light and glorious clouds. Hedges just beginning to turn into green, plum blossoms out, cherries beginning.

Bees active today and (yesterday?)

Walk this afternoon taking Wendy, up the hill from the Lodge, along Maiden Newton – Yeovil road, past sandy box, down to left across fields though Chases’ bottom and back over lower parts of Stagg Hill.

Met General.

April 20^th – 21^st 1950

Warm days, examined and (sufeed?) the bees.

Saturday 22^nd April 1950

Cattistock Point to Point. – Got a chill, all day Sunday in bed. Cold.

Monday 24^th April 1950

Cold, recovering – Paid rates £15.13.10

Paid Taylor for foundation, (section wood frames?)

2.16.9

Certificate for J.A. Heath-Caldwell

Dairy of C.H. Heath-Caldwell  - aged 61 continues

30^th April 1950

Cold week. Cherries out, lilac beginning

Heard cuckoo last week, saw goldfinches this morning. Swallows have been (so jest but nobby are??)

Cheque for 1272.18.1 from Knight & Sons – funding(?) Linley Wood (trust?)

1^st May 1950

2000 Australian Ordinary Stock 1963-1965 3%

Dividend Warrant –    £30.0.0

Less                             £13.10 income tax

£16.10

Forwarded Lloyds Bank.

From Linley Wood Trust – £1200

Also

Cert No. 13002 –        £2000 Government of Commonwealth of Australia 3% - 1963/68

18076                          £600 ditto 3% - 1965/67

16/804897                   £1096.9.2 3% Savings Bonds 1960/1970       Lloyds Bank

7/187421                     £444.4.6 British Transport 3% guaranteed Stock 1978/1988

4^th May 1950

(Pect?) Stock 16.10

Saturday 6^th May 1950

Miss Nobbs, Miss Taylor, Kit and Mabel came to tea.

Tuesday 9^th May 1950

Dentist, one front tooth out. Wrote to Pat

The first warm day, a lovely one.

Walked round the hill after tea.

9.40pm (about) watched two badgers playing.

DENTAL APPOINTMENT – Wednesday 2^nd August – 10am.

£1310.5.1 3 ½ % War Loan 1196- Stamp 6. 1200

At 91 5/16  Guineas 3.5.6

Wednesday 10^th May 1950

Lunch and dinner at Lodge.

Thursday 11^th May 1950

Pricked out tobacco and celery. Made and painted beehive (lift?)

Lovely warm day. Walked round hill after tea. First ( coalters?) day.

Sunday 14^th May 1950

HC Cattistock, MP Maiden Newton

M.V. Wakefield-Richmond (Peggy Richmond) staying for night. Gave her Aphra Behn’s portrait on condition that she gives it the National Portrait Gallery first refusal.

Tea at the Lodge. Walk over downs afterwards.

Monday 15^th May 1950

Wrote to Jimmy and Shilly.

Tuesday 16^th May 1950

(Hour boy?) prepared for sweeps visit. Pricked out tobacco plants.

Painting (hut?) pm. Walked to Rampisham along Crewkerne Road and back cross country.

Tuesday 30^th May 1950

Visit Charles and Margery Weeks at Pilton.

31^st May 1950

Stewart and Hyds (?) 13.15

2^nd June 1950

Australian Stock 37.8.10

Saturday 3^rd June 1950

Real sunny weather. Bees giving lots of work. Mother, Mrs Wormald, Mrs Donald to tea yesterday.

Monday 5^th June 1950

Saw a buzzard near Askerswell.

Tuesday 6^th June 1950

Alex arrived for two nights.

Wednesday 7^th June 1950

Bathed Burton Bradstock.

Thursday 8^th June 1950

Lunch Lodge, cocktail party here(?)

Friday 9^th June 1950

Income Tax form to Lloyds Bank

Saturday 9^th June 1950 (date?)

Letter from K. (Kit)

Sunday 11^th June 1950

HC Cattistock 8. MP Maiden Newton 11. To Burton Bradstock (lots?) beach.

Wednesday 14^th June 1950

Change in the weather which has been hot and dry for some time. Alex appeared to tea on his way back from Yelverton. Went over to the Lodge. Found (Constance HC?) rather disgruntled.

Friday 16^th June 1950

Visited Dorchester – Lock Read and Lock

Made out a Simplified Will

Jimmy arrived

6 Chickens out.

Monday 19^th June 1950

Violet off to Lodge to visit Ros. 12.14 train.

Tuesday 20^th June 1950

Visits J and NW at Bath

Via Brixton – Dinner at Riversdale

Saturday 24^th June 1950

Made carport with QR. Jimmy home for weekend.

Monday 26^th June 1950

Walk 1.45 – 6.30pm about 15 miles, through Childrome by lane and across country to Crewkerne Road, by lane to Toller (Pokdun?), up to Eggardan Cross Roads, left past Woolcomb Farm, Wynford Manor Farm and Maiden Newton – Letter.

Tuesday 27^th June 1950

Left at 2 in the Rover with Mother and Violet for Bath via Radstock, arrived Bath about 4 o’clock, tea with Nelson Ward, back via Frome arriving about 7.30 – Jimmy home for a party.

Wednesday 28^th June 1950

Minor crisis at the Lodge, which resolved itself without interference from me. After lunch walked to Batcombe Down 2.45 – 6.30 – about 4 miles there and 4 miles back. Looked down on Batcombe Church but could not distinguish the Priory.

Friday 31^st June 1950

A quiet day yesterday – Weather warm but overcast.

Trouble in Korea; aggression from the North compared to Hitler’s advance into the Rhineland – Prompt intervention by America and United Nations. Apparently Russia is not taking up the challenge.

Read “The Bible” by Richard Booth from Foundations.

Following letter in D.T.

Village Parson:-

Despite what your correspondents say, we should not be too hard on the square pegs in round holes. The causes of a clergyman’s unpopularity are not infrequently to his credit. A parish may become stagnant in the closing years of an ageing incumbent, who is loved for old associations sake. Then in his place comes an evangelic man with new (attitudes?) and new ideas, and it may be years before these are accepted. In the meantime he is heartily disliked because “he is always at us over something.” In the passing of time, he is accepted and gradually becomes popular, unless he has grown disenchanted.

A frequent cause of friction is a domineering and disagreeable clique. A recent novel by R.C. Sherriff gives a telling and realistic picture of what happens. Often a clergyman must choose the hard way and fight such a clique if he is to be a true servant of the Church. And his opponents will fight bitterly, vindictively and meanly, doing their best (or worst) to break him in heart and spirit.

It is easy to form an estimate on casual gossip. But the fault is just as likely to be in the hole as in the peg.

Lanton SW.

Friday 31^st June 1950

Lunch at Lodge – After tea to Pollards(?) in CAA to meet Jimmy’s two friends. Julian Howard, John Bowes.

Saturday 1^st July 1950

Wedding at Burford House, Pilton. Nancy Bond and Arthur Chaplin. Met Phillip and (Hilda?) Crofton, Rodolph and Madeline de Salis, Charles and (Hegns?) Walker, G. P. Brown, the Bartons and the remarried daughters. Back about 6. Besants and Mrs Donald in for drinks.

(Marriage of Nancy Emma Bond, eldest daughter of Mrs W.H. Bond of Burford House, Shepton Mallet, was married at the Church of St.John the Baptist, Pilton, to Mr Arthur Harvey Chaplin of 6 Aubrey Walk, London. )

Deputy Lieutenant Rodolph de Salis CBE, OBE DSC (1890-1972) and Madeline Marion de Salis (nee Heath, 1892 – 1978)(Would have been a contemporary of Cuthbert at HMS Brittania)

Commander Philip Duke Crofton OBE 1886 - 1951

To Lloyds  Bank. J.A.H-C Trust, winding up.

Transfer:-

409.18             3 ½      War Stock

100                  4          Victory Bonds

From Violet to self to J.A.H-C.

2. Dividend Warrants ½ yearly

Transport Stock 1978-1988 –             Gross   Nett

                        444.4.6            6.13.3  3.13.4

Australian 3% 1965-1967       9.         4.19

£600

16^th June          ICI                                 7.14.

28^th June          Excess Insurance         66.

7^th July             150. Shell Transport     7.10

17^th July           Australian 5%             24.6.3

18^th August     Amalgamated Metal     16.10.

Sunday 2^nd July 1950

Bartrop(?) appeared after breakfast. Took GM (Constance Heath-Caldwell) to Maiden Newton. MP(NR?) – Stewack handed out a helpful little sermon. Blind leading the Blind – Teaching reading – What spoils it, prejudice, pride, and criticism (fault finding).

After lunch Burton Bradstock for bathe and tea. Jimmy on his motorbike, the remainder in CAA. Saw J. Howard and T. Bow off by 6.08 train from Dorchester (for Portsmouth). Jimmy left about 10pm on his motorbike.

Monday 3^rd July 1950

Letter – Raining morning. CAA to Charminster to collect skittles for fete. Shopping in Dorchester, tea, coffee, fish, tobacco and some sketching materials. After tea walked round valley. Fete meeting Chilfrome 8pm.

Tuesday 4^th July 1950

X Fine but overcast. Answered some letters.

Tied up wisteria. Mr Donald to tea. After tea walked to Stagg folly.

Wednesday 5^th July 1950

Took chairs and trestles to Chilfrome for fete.

Thursday 6^th July 1950

Fete – a showery day. Not more than 60 or 70 people there. I helped Westmacott and Faulkes with womens skittles from about 2.30 to 9pm.

Korean war cloud continues.

Friday 7^th July 1950

Lunch at Lodge – Telephoned Adams, plumber, re changing bath at the Lodge. After lunch Violet and I took tea to Burton Bradstock and came back along the coast road via Abbotsbury. Sent off this months poultry.

Monday 10^th July 1950

Left Cattistock at 2pm in FRF 295, arrived Bedford about 7.30 – Dinner at Swan, unable to get a bed there, slept at Abbey Hotel, not too comfortable. Next morning left about 10.15 with Aunt Sophie and Miss Tow. Lunch at the Cheque, Newbery and arrived Cattistock about 4.30, bad neuralgia, went to bed for 36 hours.

Thursday 13^th July 1950

Charles and Majory Webber to tea.

Friday 14^th July 1950

Paid (Mitchester?) bill. Sent Jimmy’s license etc to Vernon. Wrote to Hancock re (Rowe, Rome?) Extracted 2 bag honey. Fastened melon.

GM (Constance HC) to tea. A lovely clear sunny day. Afternoon at bees, found brood(?) in top (samper?) in two hives. Removed (AE?) from No.4.

After supper walked to badgers, saw four cubs playing about 10.30pm, watched them for some time.

Certificate in Diary of J.A.Heath-Caldwell – aged 19

Diary of C.H. Heath-Caldwell continues

Saturday 15^th July 1950

Swithing(?)

Pouring rain all day – Jimmy home from the Vernon. Aunt Sophie to tea. Village football fete. Wrote some letters – paid telephone bill.

Sunday 16^th July 1950

Took GM (Constance HC) to Maiden Newton church. PMPR(?). – Sermon on standards. Tea at Lodge. Evening Chilfrome. Fair weather.

Monday 17^th July 1950

Was ever known

The witless shepherd who persists to drive

A flock that thirsts not to a pool disliked?

Prelude Bt.III

Put up fence – staked tomatoes. Violet took McDonald to Sherborne in CAA to fetch Bruce Donald.

Fine morning – rainy evening.

Tuesday 18^th July 1950

Maiden Newton to Goulds. Ordered SOLIGNUM. Box of nails, tooth paste and (brides time?) After lunch walk 2.30 – 5 – Staggs folly. Along Yeovil Road to Warden hill, then left and home across country between Frome St. Quintin and Chalmington.

Cleaned paint brushes., did some hoeing.

Posted Country Life and Spectator to Pat.

Mist on the hills, (Orescant?) Coat but Clon(?)

Wednesday 19^th July 1950

Fine hot sunny day. Glass rising. To Dorchester early, 10.30. Long removed a tooth. Met Wharton. Home to lunch. Did some hoeing. Bought a pair of good stout shoes. After supper walked to Lodge, saw Aunt Sophie (who had 8 brothers and 4 sisters) Simply full of beans and crazy but very deaf.

Village thrilled with skittles. The alley is laid out on the waste ground opposite Saville Hall, and play is on every night up to 11pm. Prize 10/- a night, and the winners play off final at 11 for the pig. The whole is in aid of Cattistock Football Club.

“If the good would be kind to the clear,

And the clear is nice to the good

What is the right quotation, (neles?) said it”

Thursday 20^th July 1950

Violet went off with trailer to try to get Bassett to fix up a bed for the precious Rosamond and John. (and brought back trolly) Mrs Donald came in rather pissed about how to get herself, Bria, the puppy and her luggage to Dublin by Wednesday. Fixed up looking glass for spare room. Solignum on Fence, and erected the second panel. After tea walked up to Hemming’s. Warm, rather close day, sunny at times but mostly overcast. Mrs Donald came in this morning. Telephoned to bank for her. Letter from Pat to Violet.

Friday 21^st July 1950

A fine day though rather oppressive. Lunch at the Lodge. 3pm to GM (Constance HC), Aunt Sophie and Violet in FRF295 through Maiden Newton, Winterbourne Abbas, Portesham, Abbotsbury and along the coast round to Burton Bradstock and back via Askerswell and Toller. After tea walked round the head of the valley, along cornfield, cellic field, (dam) Stagg folly, Kennells and home.

Saturday 22^nd July 1950

Pouring with rain and blowing. Jimmy arrived at Dorchester 8pm. Went for a walk, Maiden Newton, up the Yeovil Road, back by Charity (steans?) and bought a few mushrooms.

Yellow Gage plums ripe but only half a dozen and (Ealing?) spoiled by the ants.

Sunday 23^rd July 1950

MP Chilfrome. Took 12 o’clock celebrations, about 13 communicants. Sunny, windy day (SW) good cloud effects.

Minor domestic crisis at Lodge, no doubt a reflection of Korea and international unrest.

The question is- Is Korea a deliberate beginning of WW3 by Russia, or did they think they would get away with it and that United Nations would do nothing but talk.

Took Jimmy to Dorchester to catch 6.08 train for Portsmouth, back by Bridport Road.

Monday 24^th July 1950

Find, sunny day. Finished Solignaning the fence. After tea walked up Staggs folly and back via Charity (bottom?) to look for mushrooms, found none. More friction at Lodge between D and Q’s. Letter from (Cameron?) to deal with Portsmouth explosives due to sabotage.

Civil Defence debate in the (Houn?) – (after one one peach?)

Tuesday 25^th July 1950

Rain. Early to Dorchester to consult Lock, re L’Affaire Cameron. Its advised called the bluff and refusing to pay the 9.19.10 demanded. Forecast fair weather expected. Dewdney digging new strawberry bed. Walked round Staggs folly. John and Ros arrived after tea. A depressing day. Everyone thinking about another war.

Wednesday 26^th July 1950

Fine sunny day. Shelled a few peas for seed and dozed in the garden after lunch. Examined three beehives and got 4 small (bars?) of honey.

After tea fed hens as usual, watered the (lanelds?) and then went for a long walk 7 – 10, up to Staggs folly, along the Yeovil road as far as the quarry on Warden(?)(his question mark) Hill and back across country. Diana left for Up Marden to Rodolph and Madeline de Salis for Goodwood. Ros and John have brought back the tent but left the pegs behind.

Thursday 27^th July 1950

Letter from C.E. Heath & Co enclosing cheque for £835.12 endowment Assurance Policy. Returned cheque to Heath & Co reminding them that they had advised me to leave the money on deposit with the National Mutual Life Assurance Co.

Cheque for £306 from Dorset C.C. grand for DAMC. Forwarded to Midland Bank, Dorchester for payment into DAMC account.

After lunch drove G.M. (Constance HC) and Aunt Sophie and Miss Tow to Burton Bradstock via Toller and Askerwell. Violet, John and Ros in Atwood car where we had tea on the beach. Violet and John bathed but to my mind not hot enough, back via Compton Valence. Fine day.

Friday 28^th July 1950

Doing DAMC accounts most of the forenoon. Letters from Cheshire County Council, Record Office thanking us for giving them the old deeds (1572 – 1750)

After lunch GM and Aunt Sophie arrived and stayed to tea. J.A. (John Attwood) to Yetminster for medical exam. Fine day. Extracted 2 bars honey. Fine warm day. Pricked out lettuces.

Saturday 29^th July 1950

Ordered oilskins from Bartams, South  Shields – 4.14.6

Paid Nobbs bill 2.18.6 – Adco on compost heap.

After lunch Violet, Ros, John and I to Burton Bradstock – bathed. Via Toller and Askerwell, back by Litton Cheney the Roman Road.

Fine and warm.

Sunday 30^th July 1950

HC – Cattistock 8. – Rain – East Chilfrome. Walked round Valley. Read part of Toynbee Vol 5. A pity he uses so many long words, also the arguments strike me as involved.

Monday 31^st July 1950

Ordered striplite for kitchen from Goulds. After tea walked round by Staggs folly. John Attwood playing tennis. Fine on the whole but one or two showers.

Tuesday 1^st August 1950

Sent two dividend warrants (English Electric) for Pat and Jimmy to Lloyds Bank, Dorchester. £70 cinema fund from DCC. Sent to Midland Bank. Began sketch. Visited Lodge after supper.

Wednesday 2^nd August 1950

Dorchester for dentist (Lay) 10am. One tooth out, next appointment 9.50 Tuesday 12^th Sept. Went to RDC offices and contacted Civil Defence official and put my name down for Warden.

Letter from C.E. Heath & Co 835.12 deposited with National Mutual Life Assurance co.

August (months of Frontier?) arrived.

GM (Constance HC) and Aunt Sophy to tea. Sketch of Elm Tree and cellic field.

Heavy showers. Joined Civil Defence.

Thursday 3^rd August 1950

Letter from Mrs Venables Kyrke enclosing 35 for DHMC, Manor Cottage, (Drstsen?) near Klynabl(?, Plymouth?)

And informing me that Mr Preddy, a Poole Bank Manage is prepared to take on as DAMC Treasurer.

Spent morning at DAMC accounts

Pm. Took 10 boxes from No.3 hive.

After dinner to Lodge to say adieu to Aunt Sophie and Miss Tow.

Fine day.

Friday 4^th August 1950

Aunt Sophie and Miss Tow left for Bedford in DVD.6. Replenished N.H. Cards. Lunch at Cattistock Lodge. Afterwards Violet and I went to Burton Bradstock in CAA, bathe and tea on beach. Treated leggings, oil skins and a deck chair with Graingers solutions. Fine.

Saturday 8^th August 1950

Got chicken food for month. Sent back spats (hat?) to Barbans(?) of South Shields because it was too small. Cancelled order for Allendale (cat?) and ordered Beacon Thompson instead. Returned (Storm?) hat (too small to Barours), cancelled order Allendale oilskin and orderd Beacon Thompson of.

GM (Constance HC) to lunch. Filled up CAA with petrol at Pearce (4 gallon) paid Gould’s bill (£19odd) (locigned?) honey.

Sunday 6^th August 1950 T.IX and The Transfiguration

A perfect day, hot without being oppressive. Took GM to Church at Maiden Newton. MPCR – GM to tea at Pound House. Sat in the garden.

Tea in the garden.

Monday 7^th August 1950

Letter from Pat (Patricia C.M. Heath-Caldwell) John and Ros departed for London and Rugby after a 13 day sojourn. Pm Extracted about 14lbs honey.

Put wire round seeds for protection from chickens.

Walk past elm tree and round Celtic field. Fine, a wonderful evening.

Tuesday 8^th August 1950

Wrote to Pat. After lunch took about 30lb honey from No.1 hive (muting?) in half finished bars.

Hung picture.

Wednesday 9^th August 1950

Finished study of elm. Showery to start, fine evening. Violet to Dorchester in CAA.

Thursday 10^th August 1950

Wrote to Adams re Aphra Behn. Returned Mitchells bill with query.

Took  carpet sweeper to Harword. Paid Shergold £1 for potatoes.

Extracted honey. Sketching.

Friday 11^th August 1950

Paid Godwins bill 18/-1 for vegetable (dids?) Cashed cheque 3.Paid Shergold 22/- chicken food. Lunch at Cattistock Lodge. Took honey. After tea sketch. Make up (Fertorn?) P.L.C.

Saturday 12^th August 1950

Paid Mitchells bill. Saw MrsTompkins about baptism.

Pm. Extracted honey. Rainy. Walk. Ordered leggings from Barbours.

Sunday 13^th August 1950

Took services, Deane being away on holiday. Cattistock 8 (HR & E?)

Chilfrome 11. MP. Lunch at Cattistock Lodge. Sketching (Glen deraind?) paper no good. Wrote toWinsor & Newtons for catalogue.

Monday 14^th August 1950

Letter from G.K. Adams, National Portrait Gallery, WC2 saying that they do not wish to acquire the Aphra Behn portrait.
Wrote to Peggy Richmond and Mr Adams.

Tuesday 15^th August 1950

Wet. Jimmy (J.A. Heath-Caldwell) from (Haslar?) after non-operation by 8pm train.
Extracting honey.

Wednesday 16^th August 1950

Immersion heater query some wrong – lowered thermostat setting.

Sketching.

Treated hen pen with PLC.

Thursday 17^th August 1950

Hilary and Mark Heath paid us a visit. Posted cheque to Barbours and pc are bee sugar.

Violet, Jimmy and I to Chetnode to tea with Gildins. Heavy shower. Beacon Cont arrived.

(Sir Mark E. Heath 1927-2005 aged 23 at time of visit and his mother Hilary Heath ne Salter)

Friday 18^th August 1950

Letter from Peggy Richmond. Cheque for expenses to Miss Bent. Posy arrived for two nights. Rain, sketching.

(Posy – Rosamond Heath 1893-1970, aged 57 at time of visit, daughter of Admiral Sir Herbert Heath)

Saturday 19^th August 1950

Walked round Staggs folly – pm sketching elm tree and car. Rain.

Sunday 20^th August 1950

Took 8am, 11MP Cattistock. 6.30 at Chilfrome, read from Prayer for all Times instead of sermon. Baptism. Wordland boy. Heavy showers. Posy left for Pilton and London.

Monday 21^st August 1950

A lovely day. Spent most of it dealing with the bees and got my study full of them. Two of the hives have a lot of brood in the two supers so that I had to leave two supers on end. Also I found two (emfly?) and one full queen cell in No.2.

I suppose it is the changeable weather that has upset them.

Jimmy (J.A. Heath-Caldwell) cleaned out the garage and began painting in Diana’s bedroom. Had (customs, another?) 90 at painting the hedgerow club.

Tuesday 22^nd August 1950

Fine day – stormy sunset. Stored several combs in attic. Dewdney clearing up and sowing winter lettuce and spinach beet. Cocktail party at the Luards (Buckland Newton). Melted some beeswax. Jimmy painting Diana’s room.

Wednesday 23^rd August 1950

Heavy showers – Village place show(?) – Violet, Diana and I went to Arts and Crafts exhibition at Canford – pm extracting honey. Continued sketch of village from slopes of Castle Hill.

Cashed cheque £4.

Friday 25^th August 1950

Examined No.1 hive – Dorchester – bought sketch materials. Jimmy left for Portsmouth 6.48. Showery.

Saturday 26^th August 1950

Sketching – dealing with honey.

Sunday 27^th August 1950

HC Cattistock 8. Tea Lodge. Showery.

MP N.N.11 pm sketch from Castle Hill.

Monday 28^th August 1950

Am. Sketch – pm CAA to Crabbs for decarbonisation, back on bicycle. Cleaned honey extractor. Boxed some wax.

Tuesday 29^th August 1950

Sketch from Castle Hill before lunch. Pup away extractor in attic. Washed tomatoes. Picked and hung up tobacco. Telephoned Electrics re water heater – as all the cold water in tank was warm this morning. Latter cut of 2” from exhaust pipe possible cure(?) Letter from Peggy Richmond. Fine but one or two showers.

Wednesday 30^th August 1950

Rain all day – bicycled to Dorchester to fetch CAA (decarbonisation and brake adjustment) After tea went to look for mushrooms. Found plenty of horse mushrooms, but few of its edible variety. Fixed bookshelf in wc.

Thursday 1^st September 1950

Fine morning, but showers pm. Completed sketch of Cattistock from side of Castle hill.

Pm Shilly (Sillitoe) arrived 4.5 train from Bishop Taginton.  Potted 3 pink hyacinth bulbs. (Lady Derby bulbs)

Fine day – misty. Lunch at Cattistock Lodge. GM to tea.
Dorchester pm. Took DAMC books to Mr Crook of Joy Lane & Co. am DAMC accounts.

1^st September 1950 – ½ yearly interest on 3% Savings Bonds

Gross 16.8.11. Nett 9.0.11

Saturday 2^nd September 1950

Fine, sketching cows in meadow.

Jimmy and Geoffrey R. Lemon arrived pm.

2^nd September 1950 – Interest on money on deposit with National Mutual Life Assurance Co. 39 King St, Cheapside, London E.C.2.  1.11.8

Both in future direct to Lloyds Bank.

Sunday 3^rd September 1950

Rainy nearly all day – Most of Jimmy’s group came to tea en route for Plymouth – arriving 3.30 – departed 5.30. (Lt) John Bowers, (Lt Stephen) Pakenham, (Lt) Julian Howard, and 3 others.  Lit fire in sitting room – feeling heady.

Monday 4^th September 1950

Fine but overcast am. Rain in the night. Shelled broad beans for seed. Hung up tobacco. 10lbs for sugar for bee syrup – pm finished picture of cows in Meechs meadow. Was an object of curiosity to a family of geese who investigated everything very loudly – pecked at my gumboots and finally settled down to sleep at my feet. Violet and Shilly to Dorchester in CAA.

Tuesday 5^th September 1950

Began clearing tobacco. Walk round Staggs folly pm. Danny (Diana Heath-Caldwell aged 29) down with a chill.

Wednesday 6^th September 1950

Fed No.3,4, 5 hives 16lbs sugar between them. On downs before lunch trying to get studies of sheep.  Then into Meech’s field and the cows. Strawberry plants arrived from Brixton – planted them. Filled CAA 4 gallons petrol, ordered new tyre. Mr Crook of Joy, Lane telephoned re DAMC accounts.

Fine am. Heavy rain pm.

Thursday 7^th September 1950

Dorchester am. Paid Joy Lane 1 guinea for overhauling DAMC books – pm Violet and Shilly visited Dorchester Agricultural show. Commenced sketch from East side of valley looking over Castle hill.

Friday 8^th September 1950

Shilly departed by 11.43 from Yeovil train station.

Lunch Cattistock Lodge. Wrote to Barbour re hat. Paid (Tithe?) £1. To J. Foot (Tooth?) 17/- to Mitchell £4.5 to Crabb.

Civil Defence questionnaire.

Saturday 9^th September 1959

Jimmy arrived yesterday from Plymouth en route for Whale Island. Ros and John (Attwood) arrived last night – Pouring wet.

Immersion heater went array – wrote to Electricity Board – Dorchester.

Fine evening till mist came down. Sketching Castle Hill.

Bottled 1 gallon jar – mead.

Sunday 10^th September 1950

HC. Cattistock. MP Maiden Newton. Fine day. Ros and John (Attwood) left 3.30. Jimmy left 6.30. Sketching from top of hill. Read part of Toynbee Vol VI. The Saviour with the Sword – Archansin, Futuresque the philosopher King – Adoptionism v Conceptionism.  – Dean’s sherry party.

Monday 11^th September 1950

9.50 Dentist at Dorchester to fit back teeth.

Cold, overcast pm.

Monday evening – collapsed indigestion, out of action till Friday.

Civil Defence literature arrived.

Saturday 16^th September 1950

Dreams about Allards R. Defence(?) – (Jurn spide?) in Korea.

Sunday 17^th September 1950

Gale. MP – Maiden Newton. Tea at Lodge and took GM to Maiden Newton 6.30 etc. Completed 1^st reading of Toynbee.

Monday 18^th September 1950

Fine bright day with one or two showers. Overhauled DAMC  (DAHC?) accounts. Looked over Chrysanthemums. Tea at Chalington (Thorneycroft)

Bought chicken meal.

Tuesday 19^th September 1950

Rain. DAMC meeting. Turned over accounts.

Wednesday 20^th September 1950

Drove GM (Constance Heath-Caldwell) to see Margaret Collins, High Lea (?) Pendy(?)  - 75 miles – 2 ½ hours each way. Fine day with occasional showers.

Thursday 21^st September 1950

Sent covenants to Predy(?) Paid car insurance 5.4.6-

Friday 22^nd September 1950

Showery. Bright intervals. Lunch at Lodge. 2/-6 Firewood from Galpin and paid 1/- for Ward. Parafin.

Lent “Hint of Religion” to the General.

Sunday 24^th  September 1950

HC. Cattistock. 8. M.P. Maiden Newton 11. Sermon interpretation of Breadth, Length, Depth and Height. Shower.

Monday 25^th September 1950

Showery. Refitting Aladdin stove. Sketching Charity bottom. Ordered 5 cwt potatoes from Chalmington.

Tuesday 26^th September 1950

Barratts bill 35.6.3 less 3.6 for battle scenes.

In the evening to Dorchester, Ling Lear by Salisbury Players.

Wednesday 27^th September 1950

Meeting of Civil Defence Wardens – at R.D.C. offices, Dorchester.

Answered Freddies letter.

(Lt. Col. Frederick Dunbar Heath – 1889- 23^rd Oct 1954)

Thursday 28^th September 1950

Arranged C.D. meeting in school, Friday 6^th Oct. Indigestion.

Friday 29^th September 1950

Muggy and warm. Lunch at Cattistock Lodge. Sketch Charity bottom.

Sunday 1^st October 1950

Jimmy home for weekend from Whale Island. Showery and colder. Cattistock Harvest Thanksgiving. Took 11.40 celebrants.

GM (Constance Heath-Caldwell) to tea. Sketching Charity bottom. Cold and not very successful.

Monday 2^nd October 1950

Evening – chill.

Thursday 5^th October 1950

Vivid dream.

Friday 6^th October 1950

Civil Defence Meeting at School. 7.30. – Not a success.

Present:-

Mr Egerton

Mr Paul

Mrs Paul

Mr Lippelt

Captain Foster.

Jimmy arrived about midnight.

Saturday 7^th October 1950

Dorchester 9.50 to get new upper teeth. Most uncomfortable.

Met Freddie Matu(?)  MN 4.3-

Sunday 8^th October 1950

AM Cattistock 8. MP. Maiden Newton.

Tea at Cattistock Lodge. Took Freddie for walk. Lower Wraxall and back by Ry. Jimmy left 9.30 for Lee.

Monday 9^th October 1950

Freddy Math left Yeovil Junction 8.30. Colder but fine morning. (Coyl Trauqueson?) 4.25 Dorchester dentist. Bought pull-through and Rayson(?) oil for Jimmy’s 22 rifle.

Wednesday 11^th October 1950

Bottled 6 gallon gar of mead. Sister Parks (Postes?) arrived. Fine day. Troublesome cough.

Thursday 12^th October 1950

Fine warm sunny day. To Abbotsbury via Portesham. Walked through gardens, (SWamny?) closed for winter. Tea at the Bull, Swyn. Sent sketches to Pat. (Patricia Heath-Caldwell(

Friday 13^th October 1950

Letter from Mabel – Letter from National Portrait Gallery, London WC2. Re Aphra Behn.
Received from F. & E.Stoneham.

(Meltur??) “The Open Way” by Grantham House. And L. De Mesurier.

J. Cape “The Coming Defeat of Communism” by James Burnham

Saturday 14th October 1950

Excess Insurance £66

Sunday 15^th October 1950

Rain am. MP and SR Maiden Newton.

(Everything?) is Easier to Say – E Chippam – Be a Good Chum.

Jimmy here for the weekend from Lee.

Monday 16^th October 1950

Miss Porlts(?) and Violet went off to a sale near Blandford. Civil Defence No. at Frome St.Quinton.

50lbs meal – 1 cwt of potatoes from Shergold

Tuesday 17^th October 1950

Saw Miss P off by 12.15 bus from Dorchester to Dawlish.

Wednesday 18^th October 1950

Dorchester – Dentist.

Thursday 19^th October 1950

GM’s birthday (Constance Heath-Caldwell) (82?) Tea Lodge.

Paid Harwood 4.9.6 repairs to carpet sweeper.

Friday 20^th October 1950

Lunch Lodge –

Saturday 21^st October 1950

Jimmy and Dick North home for Weekend.

Finished D of F..

Sunday 22^nd October 1950

MP & M Childrome. Tea at Lodge.

Tuesday 23^rd October 1950

Saw Violet off from Bournemouth.

Wednesday 25^th October 1950

Visited (Daniels Adams?) Lunch with Helen(?) (Mili?)

Thursday 26^th October 1950

Minstead and back by Exe Valley

Friday 27^th October 1950

Dorchester – car springs mended – N.H. specs. Lunch Lodge

“Life is a comedy to those who think

A tragedy to them who feel.”

Certificate in Diary of J.A. Heath-Caldwell – aged 19

Diary of C.H. Heath-Caldwell continues.

Saturday 28^th October 1950

Sharp frost. Dined at Cattistock Lodge.

Sunday 29^th October 1950

HC Cattistock . M.P. Maiden Newton

Monday 30^th October 1950

2 cwt Arran Bamer from Chalmington Paid 1 – 2/- owing

Wednesday 1^st November 1950

Lunch Brigadier C. Southgate CB

The Braky

Hilbourne

Bradston (Broadstair?)

Ph Bradston 361

Thursday 2^nd November 1950

Wrote Freddie and CD offices. Rain.

Friday 3^rd November 1950

Lunch at Cattistock Lodge, gun totes – fine day

From Frontier(?)

‘The Problem of Christ in 20^th Century,’ W.R. Matthews

‘The Bible from Within’ A.G. Helm. O.V.P.

‘Alternative to Serfdom,’ J.M.Clark. Blackents

‘A Certain Woman’ Victor MacClure

‘Mirror for Men’ Clyde Kluckhomes. G.E. Harrap.

‘Essay on Physics’ Lord Samuel

Nite Sted Handlamp. Nite batteries. Union St, Redditon, Worcestershire

‘Morals Since 1900’ by Gerald Heard

An interesting attempt to assess the changes in belief and practice of the moral laws since 1900.

5 moral laws being (emarred?) with Force, armies and police, Sex. Wealth. The Given Word. Thought. With some remarks on Law, Education and Health as the criteria of civilisation, but each in turn has failed to satisfy the whole man.

Pyschology of Childhood to Maturity.

Saturday 4^th November 1950

Dorchester – Gas mask test and stirrup pump.

Monday 6^th November 1950

(Mored Fuschias?)  - Civil Defence lecture, Frome St Quentin (advent?) warfare.

(7^th Nov 1950 – CHHC birthday – aged 61)

Thursday 9^th November 1950

Monday 13^th November 1950

Attended R.D. chapter meeting at Steapleton’s Rectory.

PCC meeting.

Tuesday 14^th November 1950

Dorchester am to get new shackles as front springs CAA.

Walk pm.

Friday 17^th November 1950

Violet and I left Cattistock at 12.50 in CAA. Fine sunny day. Arrived Headley (Hampshire) about 4pm. Tea with (Buggie (Irving?) – after tea to Royal Huts Hotel, Hindhead. Buggie Irving and Jimmy(?) to dinner. (£2.10) Bed, breakfast and (gasing, gossip?) £2

Saturday 11.am – on to Milford, visited Attwooods at Burchells near Milford. Quite a good lunch at Cranleigh (12/-) then on to Rusper for wedding of John Wood. Reception at Lyre, at least 300 guests. Met Aunt Ada (aged 90) Aunt Beire(?), Michael Stottard, Edwin Wood, Janet Wood, Evelyn Broadwood, Leo Broadwood, his son Stewart, Majory Hull and her youngest daughter. Tea. Rodolph and Madeleine de Salis, Posy Heath, Griggs and his wife, Joan Long (Sarl?), David Holland, his wife, Freddy, Dorothy and Pamela Heath.

(John Gerard Prescott Wood – bn 1921 – married Heather Birks bn 1926)

(Janet Muriel Wood – ne Broadwood – 1895 – 1989)

(Leopold Alfred Tschudi Broadwood – 1890-1980)

Left about 5.30 – and came back via Billingshurst – Petersfield, Winchester, --- 270 miles altogether. South westerly gale and very heavy rain. Petrol 5 ½ in tank, 4 taken, about 3 left.  

Monday 20^th November 1950

Wrote to Shilly. Completed N.H. Card (1.12.6)

Pm. Load of firewood – gale, heavy rain.

Wednesday 22^nd November 1950

Dorchester, left watch at Trent and Ford(?) – due 6^th Dec. Some rain, Violet to Bournemouth. 9am to 11.30pm. Walk

Friday 24^th November 1950

Lunch at Lodge. Fine sunny day.

Jimmy arrived 9.30pm.

Monday 26^th November 1950

Rain. Chinese chipping in in Korea.

Wednesday 29^th November 1950

Sowed sweet peas. Visited General, borrowed “Defence in Cold War.” (R. (interesting s…?) about affairs) Covered bee hives.

Thursday 30^th November 1950

Fairly fine day ending in South Westerly gale. I egg. Long walk pm over Castle hill past Chalmington to lane near Frome St.Quentin and back across country. 2.45 – 5pm. Noticed colours of willows near Chalmington.

Saturday 1^st December 1950

Dorchester re Schedule D assessment, which is apparently a mistake. After filing Inspection of Taxes Debt: handed note to Mr White of Lloyds Bank. Serious Chinese aggression in Korea. United Nations nervous. Mr Attlee to go to America to consult the President.

Reading ‘Folk Lore of O.T. – The Open Way.’ Ordered Badard’s ‘Freedom du Spirit’ from County Library.

Jimmy here for weekend.

Sunday 2^nd December 1950

Snow. MP. HC Maiden Newton.

Monday 3^rd December 1950

Violet to Mainull to get cot etc (for Ros) from the de Wintons bay tree cottage.

Tuesday 4^th December 1950

9.15 left for Bournemouth, saw Violet off from the central station, 11.26 due Rugby 3.47.

Dined at Cattistock Lodge.

Letter from – A.C. Williams, Llanfds Vicarage, Cynghordy, Llandorry, Canvs.

Thursday 7^th December 1950

Left 0900 for Porlock, arrived 11.am. Left Porlock 6.30, arrived Cattistock 9.pm.

Friday 8^th December 1950

3 cwt Majidie(?) (33/-) from Chalmington –

Binyaer. ‘Freedom and the Spirit.’ From Hampshire County Library. North Walrs, Winchester. – due for return 7^th Jan.

Jimmy, Dick North arrived in the evening. Dinner at Cattistock Lodge. Fine, sunny day.

Saturday 9^th December 1950

Jimmy and Dick North rabbiting – to Maiden Newton for paraffin. Lunch at Cattistock Lodge, took GM (Constance Heath-Caldwell) for drive along Crewkerne road, through Evershot and back through Maiden Newton. Tea and snooker at Chalmington. In to Dorchester to get Jimmy’s motorbike. Dinner at Lodge.

Sunday 10^th December 1950

HR, Cattistock. Rain.

Monday 11^th December 1950

Cardhays(?) N Kaid (?) lecture.

Tuesday 12^th December 1950

Lunch at Lodge. Dorchester for photos.

Wednesday 13^th December 1950

Wood from Galpins.

Thursday 14^th December 1950

Bournemouth to meet Violet.

Letter from Backtoper(?) Freddies (vin?) deeds signed.

Friday 15^th December 1950

12” snow.

Paid Schedule A 12.7.6

Land Tax 17.7

13.5.1

Lunch at Lodge.

Saturday 16^th December 1950

Proofs from Penrhyn Studios. (W.A. Ferguson &Stuart) tel 1071. 7a. Hight St East, Dorchester.

Walk round valley – heavy going, with drifts up to 8 ft.

Sunday 17^th December 1950

MP and HR Maiden Newton – pm to tea with Plaeydale-Railstons at Whatcombe. Snow.

(June and Patricia Pleydell-Railston of Whatcombe House, Blandford, Dorset, both aged about 30 at this time)

Monday 18^th December 1950

Sent in 3 Civil Defence forms to Civil Defence Enrolment Office, 58 High West St, Dorchester.

Next – First Aid Class at Frome St.Quentin – Monday 8^th January.

Tuesday 19^th December 1950

Dorchester – Tooth out, next appointment 4pm, 22^nd January. Slushy but night parts(?) and plenty of snow about still.

Wednesday 20^th December 1950

Walk.

Thursday 21^st December 1950

Violet to Dorchester  with Dany and Tab. Walk. Reading ‘Freedom of the Spirit.’

Friday 22^nd December 1950

Sent photos to Pat – Dorchester for Vi x vg. Violet and E mins.

Saturday 23^rd December 1950

Still cold, wind shifted from East. Chores. Walk

Wednesday 27^th December 1950

Cold weather continues. Sunday HR 8 Cattistock. M.P. Maiden Newton. Don’t remember the (sermons?) Monday, Christmas Day, M.P. Cattistock and an excellent short address from Deane on the difference between joy and happiness. (happiness is passing in for children of all ages, joy endures) Took midday celebrations. A quiet week, dining at Cattistock Lodge and wonderful effort by Dany and Tab(?) xmas the loads of presents. Have three books to read. Jerusalem from Ros, ‘The Age of Eloquence’ and Boswell’s ‘London Journal.’ Violet had x ray last week and a few days later was informed that the bone in the ankle had been broken but had mended.

About 50 christmas cards. Wrote to ….(?) Mabel and Shilly, Ros and John James(?) (Tawes?) Reading Badinfs ‘Freedom du Spirit’

Thursday 28^th December 1950

Still cold. Walk on Downs, plenty of frozen snow left. Head of Margaret Colsons engagement to (Sandy?)

Besant, and Christopher  London( Loudor?) Greenle to tea. Played les Jeullins(?) B.B.C. Lord Samuel and Bertrand Russell on the achievements and losses of the last 50 years. Harold Nicholson in the chair.

Friday 29^th December 1950

Over to Maiden Newton for paraffin, toothpaste and bacon.

Pm. To Axminster to meet Shilly.

Hard frost still keeps on.

Cesspit pump out of action. (fost(?) valve.)

Saturday 30^th December 1950

Hard frost – Lodge , water supply problem. Still no Mrs Croft. Pm. Walked to Maiden Newton to ascertain tomorrows services. Police dragging the (supention?) for the coronation stone.

Sunday 31^st December 1950

HC Cattistock, 8. M.P. Maiden Newton. Tea at Lodge.