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:

  • copied photographs of Captain Ball, Captain McCudden, Baron von Richthofen and his brother (from North Weald sources) 8 January 1934

  • Chester wall and Cathedral, the Tower, Bridge, barges in locks, various views in the Museum, East Gate and rows of shops 22 January 1934

  • the War Memorials and St Thomas' Church, Grey's monument, two boys on old Roman well, two boys on Hadrian's Wall, ukNewcastle 28 January 1934

  • Grey's monument in fog, Collingwood's bust, the Castle and the Bridge in the fog, Stephenson, The Minster and Walls at York, the Eburacum of the Romans 29 January 1934

  • the Avon river, Edmund Burke and John Cabot's tower, the University at Bristol 5 February 1934



Individuals, subject matter and locations noted include:

  • Harlow, S/Ldr Butler, John Butler, Aerial Medical Service (AMS) 1 January 1934. This item is restricted.

  • S/Ldr Butler, S/Ldr Barber 2 January 1934

  • Mercer, Harry Mayes, Colquhoun, AMS, Group Captain Whitlingham 3 January 1934

  • Gloyus, 'All the World's Aircraft,' 4 December 1934

  • flying lesson, Harry Mayes, Mrs Caswell, Kenneth Caswell, Passmore, Bird, rafSlee, P/O Walters 5 December 1934. This item is restricted.

  • Kenneth Caswell, Group Captain Maund, Wing Commander Biggs, Wing Commander Knowles, Gloyns, AMS 6 January 1934

  • John Flynn, Geo Simpson 7 January 1934

  • Dodkin, Kenneth Caswell, Billy Stamp, Bigelow, Wing Commander Baker, Mrs Anderson 8 January 1934. This item is restricted.

  • Learmouth, encephotographs, Royal Society of Medicine (RSM), cancer, radium 9 January 1934

  • Gloyus, Conves family, finances, John Flynn, Geo Simpson 10 January 1934. This item is restricted.

  • Dodkin, Aboriginal report, Mr Blackburn, Learmouth, Barts Hospital, Syd Krantz, Ike Lawrence, Wagner, Charterhouse, MacGrath, pathology research at ukOxford, Shorto Douglas, MacKenzie and Hughes ships surgeons 11 January 1934.

  • Mr Reid, 'Glimpses of Australia' at North Weald, Aboriginal report, Group Captain Maund, Armstrong Whitworth, Aerial Medical Service (AMS) 12 January 1934

  • Great Western Hotel, Liverpool, Taunton, Glimpses of Australia, Flying Doctor, lectures 13 January 1934

  • Mr Nicholson, St Peter's College, Great Western Hotel letterhead, electricity supply, canals for transport, Bristol, Mr West at the Observatory, camera obscura 14 January 1934

  • Sgt Wolff, Harry Mayes, F/O Stone, flying lesson, Ron Lees, Rhoda Lees 15 January 1934. This item is restricted.

  • flying lesson, Ron Lees, F/Lt Barbour, EJ Lynam, AMS, Martlesham, Murray Leverick, Public Schoolboys as Explorers,Royal Photographic Society (RPS) 16 January 1934

  • Essex hunt, Wing Commander Baker, Brook Popham, Air Commodore Baldwin, S/Ldr Butler, F/O Tanner, F/O Levis, Beck;s Stables 17 January 1934

  • two pages pencil notes relating to Schoolboys as Explorers lecture

  • Ron Lees, Martlesham, Group Captain Maund, EJ Lynam, AMS, S/Ldr Butler, Rhoda Lees 18 January 1934

  • flying lesson, Ron Lees 19 January 1934

  • Blackpool, ukHalifax, Clifton Hotel letterhead, Dr Jones Nhill 20 January 1934

  • Councillor Gledhill, Bolex Cineprojector, electric power 21 January 1934

  • John Flynn, Glen Jacobs, Chester, Queen's Hotel, Mr Rocke, Mrs Fisher, Mavis and Eric 22 January 1934

  • Manchester, Armstrong Whitworth, AV Roe, Blackburn's Aeroplane works, Mr Wood, Mr Dobson, Mr Chadwick, Bradford, Mr Christy, Mr Ord, Dr Brown, Norman Sowden, Sir Wm MacEwen 23 January 1934

  • Bradford Technical College, Prof. Midgley, Prof. Richardson, description of wool qualities and uses, Mr aChapman, Mr Sharp, Mr Rayner, Mr R Priestman, Mr Healy, discussion relating to effect of automation on employment, Mons Cotton Mill, ukTodmorden 24 January 1934

  • reprint from 'Town and Country Life' 15 June 1932 headed 'The Craft of Woolcombing as practiced at the Atlas Mills, Bradford' by (T Howarth jr Ltd) Bertram Gibbons

  • Hull, Station Hotel, Monospar, Blackburn's Aeroplane works, Young People's Institute 25 January 1934

  • Gainsbors' fish shop, ukWilberforce House, ukKeighley, Temple Street Hall 26 January 1934

  • ukNewcastle, football (soccer), Damaged Lives, Venereal Disease, ukTodmorden, Royal Station Hotel letterhead, Sir Thomas Oliver, Fyneside Sunday Lecture Society 27 January 1934

  • Sir Thomas Oliver, Billy Hughes, Caisson Disease, Hadrian's Wall, Stoll Theater 28 January 1934

  • pencil notes of expenses for the perod 20-30 January 1934 showing a profit of three pounds in a turn over of 16 pounds one shilling and sixpence

  • tipping, Boot's Chemist, York, birth control, Coventry, Dr Berrill, King's Head Hotel 29 January 1934

  • Armstrong Whitworth, AMS, Mr Lloyd, Mr Chadwick, Mr Duncanson, John Flynn 30 January 1934

  • Bell Inn Epping, Ron Lees, Rhoda Lees 1 February 1934. This item is restricted.

  • HSW, Miss Willis, Mr Horten, Hey Groves, Synopsis of Surgery, Royal College of Surgeons (RCS), cancer, Woolworths, University of Adelaide 2 February 1934

  • Mr Christy, Bournemouth lectures, Bristol, Royal Empire Society (RES), Wills Tobacco Factory, Bristol Aircraft Company, Clifton College 3 February 1934

  • RCS, Lyons, Flying Doctor, Abbotsford Hotel 5 February 1934

  • RES, Mr Thomas, bSavage Club, Clifton College, Mr Udal, Royal Hotel, College Green letterhead, Earl Haig, General Birdwood, Josaphine Eardier, Lady Byron, Mr Thomas Lord Apsley, Flying Doctor, Col Lennard, bananas, description of 'shorts' shown in cinema 5 February 1934

  • Mr Fernie, Capt Barnwell, WD @ HO Wills 7 February 1934

  • pencil notes 'Suggested plan of study 8 February to 10 May 1934

  • McNeill Love, Oswald Sparrow 8 February 1934

  • Acton Davis, Temperance Hospital 10 February 1934

  • Cossack Gold, James Alexander, gold, Lionel Hill, presentation to court 11 February 1934

  • Mrs Shackleton, AMS 12 February 1934

  • autostrop 13 February 1934

  • Bournemouth, Mr Christy, Mr Harker 15 February 1934

  • Flying Doctor lecture, Dr Ross Smith 16 February 1934

  • Mollie, 18 February 1934

  • Zeiss, Leitz, Leica, Woolworths, Mr Gidderns, Mr Tann, Jimmy Moore, Royal Free Hospital, Denis Browne, RCS, Miss Black 19 February 1934

  • Mrs Sparrow, Mr Christy, Wadham School lecture 20 February 1934

  • ukTodmorden, Mollie, Somerset, Lord Dawson, birth control 21 February 1934

  • McNeill Love, Ham Bailey, Kirschner, Rowlands and Turner, Dunhill, RCS 23 February 1934

  • Mrs Blackall, Mr Blackall's death 24 Feburary 1934

  • ukTodmorden 25 February 1934

  • Mons cotton Mill, Robert Fielding's Picker Works, Frank Schofield, Jas Littlewood, Lancashire Cotton Corporation, Mr Mills 26 February 1934

  • Alan Gairdner, St George's in the East Hospital, Tom King, Mollie, Mrs Blackall 27 February 1934

  • Justophoto, Rhoda Lees, Woodford, Flying Doctor lecture, Mrs Sparrow 28 February 1934

CreatorDr William Delano Walker
ControlAA 357/4/16/2
Date Range01 January, 1934  -  28 February, 1934
Quantity 1cm,    
FormatsNewspaper Clippings, Diaries
Series AA357/04