Dr William Delano Walker personal diaries

CONTAINS RESTRICTED MATERIAL

A loose leaf diary detailing WD Walker's daily life including study, medical duties, travel and personal routine. This item covers locations around North Weald (United Kingdom) and environs.

Photographs include:

  • North Weald station from the water tower, Marconi aerials 8 November 1933

  • Mollie, with bunch of chrysanthemums at Epping 9 November 1933

  • various dock scenes at Hull in fog, William Wilberforce statue 22 November 1933

  • nigh photographs ferries and Birkenhead Light at Liverpool 4 December 1933

  • ferries at Pier Head, seagulls, Cunard Building, Mersey Docks, Harbour Board buildings 5 December 1933

  • ukHastings sea wall 11 December 1933

  • Oast Houses at Edenbridge 31 December 1933



Individuals, subject matter and locations noted include:

  • Bishop's Gate, lecture Glympses of the Interior, Mr Gosse, Mrs Innes, Camden Hill Gardens, Aerial Medical Service lecture 11 October 1933

  • Keith Kingsford Smith 12 October 1933

  • The Race Against Time, Big Ben and Boadicea for Christmas cards 13 October 1933

  • S/Ldr Butler, Mrs Butler, F/Lt Clayton, Stanley Harrod, Toronto Camera club, Life History of the Kangaroo 14 October 1933

  • Plymouth, Mollie MacKenzie, Walter Dickson, panoramas 15 October 1933

  • Jack Mouatt, S/Ldr Butler, Knight, Harlow 16 October 1933

  • F/Lt Freeman, Roborough 17 October 1933

  • Mrs Butler, F/Lt Clayton, McNeil Love, 'Shorter Surgery,' Mrs Stamp 19 October 1933. This item is restricted.

  • S/Ldr O'Neill 20 October 1933

  • Stanely 21 October 1933

  • Gaskin, Jaqueline Neate, Eileen Neate, Connie Neate 23 October 1933. This item is restricted.

  • Gaskin, Flying Doctor lecture, Purley, James Alexander 24 October 1933

  • Women's Institute, Forest Row, Mrs Devitt, Mrs Osborn, Stepney Green Institute, Grovenor House Ice Rink 25 October 1933

  • Mrs Alford, F/Lt Freeman, Devas, F/Lt Fairborther, S/Ldr Butler, Harlow 26 October 1933. This item is restricted.

  • Wakeley, Royal College of Surgeons (RCS) 27 October 1933

  • Mr Sparrow, Dr Zamera 28 October 1933. This item is restricted.

  • RCS, Wakeley 30 October 1933

  • Wing Commander Knowles, F/Lt Carter, Cpl Evans, LAC Parsons, AC Knight, AC James 31 October 1933

  • F/Lt Freeman, Mr Sparrow 2 November 1933. This item is restricted.

  • Wakeley, RCS, Mr Tann 3 November 1933

  • Goulding, Beau Sebreur 4 November 1933. This item is restricted.

  • 'No roads go by,' Mrs Con Sharp 5 November 1933

  • F/Lt Freeman, King Edward's School, lecture, Bridewell Royal Hospital, Bethlem Mental Hospital, Mr Bellerby 6 November 1933

  • HSW, Royal Society of Medicine (RSM), Ogilvie, Eldon Tucker (Guys Hospital), fragilitas ossium, Royal Empire Society (RES), Hugh Ruttledge, Raymond Greene, Everest climbing expedition, Col Blacker, Col Etherton7 November 1933

  • King Edward's School letterhead dated 27 October 1933 correspondence relating to requirements for lecture on A Flying Doctor in Australia. WD Walker response annotated in pencil

  • A4 circular,The RES notice of meetings for October and November 1933

  • five pages pencil notes relating to the Everest Expedition 1933, a few lines summarising RSM lecture on 7 Novmber 1933

  • F/Lt Freeman 8 November 1933

  • Mrs Kirby, Air Commodore Bowhill 9 November 1933

  • Goulding, Davies-Colley, RCS, Woolworths 10 November 1933

  • 'Unveiled,' Selma Ekrim 11 November 1933

  • Mrs Sparrow 12 November 1933

  • Kenneth Searle, Baby Arthur, Goulding, Mrs Sparrow, Davies-Colley, Flying Doctor lecture, Horuiman Museum ukDulwich 13 November 1933. This item is restricted.

  • F/Lt Freeman 14 November 1933

  • Mrs Freeman, Tyler's Green, Local Hounds, Baby Arthur, Joan Bailey, Talbot Inn 15 November 1933. This item is restricted.

  • P/O Hart 16 November 1933

  • Gloyus 17 November 1933

  • Gloyus, Cumposton, 'Australia and Air Travel,' 18 November 1933

  • panoramas, Aerial Medical Service (AMS), 'Rufus', Shorty H, Jock W 19 November 1933

  • Kodak, Woolworths, lecture Flying Doctor, Glimpses of Australia and its Wild Life, Mr Gray, Hull 20 November 1933

  • eight page souvenir booklet from Reckitt and Sons Ltd, Hull

  • Imperial Hotel, Reckitt and Sons Ltd, Mr Huickrale, Brough, Blackburn's Aeroplane works 21 November 1933

  • Mr Eley, Hull docks, Halibut, salmon, Ebor Wake, AMS, Mr Duncanson, monospar, John Flynn 22 November 1933

  • Miss Birnie, Mr Arthur, Staveley, Ron Lees, Rhoda Lees 23 November 1933. This item is restricted.

  • HSW, Mrs Blackall, Venereal disease lecture 24 November 1933. This item is restricted.

  • 'Another Day,' Geoff Farah, S/Ldr Butler 26 November 1933

  • F/Lt Freeman, Staveley 27 November 1933. This item is restricted.

  • S/Ldr Butler, Barbour, F/O Tanner, Ron Lees, S/Ldr Crocker, F/Lt Freeman, Mrs Butler, 'Fracture Advances,' Watson Jones 28 November 1933

  • Sir Robert Brooke Popham, 'The Life of Edward P,' Madeline Carrol, 'I was a Spy,' Flying Doctor lecture at Bishop's Stortford 29 November 1933

  • Gloyus, Alleyne's Grammar School 30 November 1933

  • Grey Turner, John Staveley 2 December 1933

  • John Flynn, Blackburn's Aeroplane works 3 December 1933

  • Bryan McFarland, Liverpool, Norris Green lecture, Adelphi Hotel, Bryan McFarland, Royal Children's Hospital, Garston, Stoke, Wedgewood Potteries, Alleynes Grammar School 4 December 1933

  • Overhead electric railway, Bryan McFarland, Norm Gunning 5 December 1933

  • Mr Armour, Bryan McFarland, Sir Robert Jones, lecture Garston 6 December 1933

  • pencil notes for calendar 4-7 December 1933

  • carbon copy operating lists for Mr Armour and Bryan McFarland Royal Southern Hospital 6 December 1933

  • Wedgewoods Potteries, Dr Fraser, lecture Glimpses of Australia 7 December 1933

  • panoramas, Col Cowell, Wing Commander Knowles, air vice Marshal McIntyre 10 December 1933

  • Yelton Hotel ukHastings letterhead, Mrs Butler, P/O Hart, Venerial disease lecture, Ron Lees 12 December 1933. This item is restricted.

  • Ron Lees, S/Ldr Knight, lecture Flying Doctor at Wembley, Rev. Pring-Rowe 13 December 1933

  • Mrs Henderson 14 December 1933. This item is restricted.

  • Mrs Henderson, Halton, Alderson 15 December 1933. This item is restricted.

  • Sanderstead Crusaders, lecture Glimpses of Australia, Purley Oaks 13 December 1933

  • Merer, Jones, Epping market 18 December 1933. This item is restricted.

  • Gloyus, Dooley, Zona de Giers married Kenneth Gilkes, George Simpson 20 December 1933

  • panoramas 22 December 1933

  • Wing Commander Baker 23 December 1933

  • Walter Dickson 24 December 1933

  • Oswald, Miss Nora Cook, Miss Mongham, Launcie, Mrs Sparrow 25 December 1933

  • Essex Hunt, Epping, Sidney Howard 'The Night of the Garter,' Leslie Hansen, 'The Three Wise Fools,' 26 December 1933

  • James Alexander, Osmond Alexander , Oxted 27 December 1933

  • Mr Laming Evans 28 December 1933

  • Royal Oak Hotel, Pony Hunt, Tom Walls, Ralph Lynn, Yvonne Arnold, 'The Cookoo in the Nest,' Mrs Letts 29 December 1933

  • Commander Kenworthy 30 December 1933

  • Osmond Alexander, Edenbridge, Mrs Hall Scott, Major Scott, R101, Horace Scott, F/Lt Freeman, P/O Murphy air crash 31 December 1933

CreatorDr William Delano Walker
ControlAA 357/4/16/1
Date Range11 October, 1933  -  01 January, 1933
Quantity 1cm,    
FormatsNewspaper Clippings, Diaries, Indexes
Series AA357/04