Letter and Interview with Sir Stafford Cripps Daughter
Title
Letter and Interview with Sir Stafford Cripps Daughter
Description
Sir Stafford Cripps 1889 - 1952
In Attlee's Government 1945 - 50 as President of the Board of Trade and Chancellor of the Exchequer. Policy of Austerity (rationing and controls preparation to adjust Britain to its reduced economy following withdrawal of US lend-lease.
He directed expansion export, especially after devaluation of the pound in 1949.
As soon as the World War Il broke, out my parents decided that our old home in Oxfordshire was too large for the future whatever the outcome of the war, and set about finding something smaller in the Cotswolds, which they both loved. They found Frith Hill, Far Oakridge, early in 1940 but, by the time is was ready to move into, we were in Moscow in the unaccustomed and unexpected setting of a British Embassy.
My sister and my parents' housekeeper, Elsie Lawrence, accomplished the move and, when the family returned, by a variety of strange routes, a new home was ready. It was to be my father's last home, but he found peace and refreshment there during the final eleven years of his life, whenever his official duties allowed him to leave London.
He had a great gift both for giving everything to his work - in London he would start on his official papers long before dawn - and for enjoying to the full family and leisure when time allowed. When he put his work aside, he gave his whole attention to what ever he was doing; making bonfires in the autumn, blackberrying and mushrooming are some of the best remembered activities I shared with him as a child and, as I grew up, I increasingly appreciated his companionship and the opportunity to talk to his about anything and everything.
Frith Hill was not really my home for very long. I joined the W.R.N.S. soon after returning from Moscow late in 1941 and, after a spell overseas from 1940-45, I was married from the house not long after V.E. day.
On leave from Naval service in the middle years of the war, I remember the joy of walking with Eve Simmonds at Lovely, old-fashioned scented flowers - magic moments to leaven my austere service life.
William Simmonds and my father had much in common and became firm friends; my father was himself quite an accomplished carpenter, and had a great appreciation of and respect for the work of craftsmen such as William.
In Attlee's Government 1945 - 50 as President of the Board of Trade and Chancellor of the Exchequer. Policy of Austerity (rationing and controls preparation to adjust Britain to its reduced economy following withdrawal of US lend-lease.
He directed expansion export, especially after devaluation of the pound in 1949.
As soon as the World War Il broke, out my parents decided that our old home in Oxfordshire was too large for the future whatever the outcome of the war, and set about finding something smaller in the Cotswolds, which they both loved. They found Frith Hill, Far Oakridge, early in 1940 but, by the time is was ready to move into, we were in Moscow in the unaccustomed and unexpected setting of a British Embassy.
My sister and my parents' housekeeper, Elsie Lawrence, accomplished the move and, when the family returned, by a variety of strange routes, a new home was ready. It was to be my father's last home, but he found peace and refreshment there during the final eleven years of his life, whenever his official duties allowed him to leave London.
He had a great gift both for giving everything to his work - in London he would start on his official papers long before dawn - and for enjoying to the full family and leisure when time allowed. When he put his work aside, he gave his whole attention to what ever he was doing; making bonfires in the autumn, blackberrying and mushrooming are some of the best remembered activities I shared with him as a child and, as I grew up, I increasingly appreciated his companionship and the opportunity to talk to his about anything and everything.
Frith Hill was not really my home for very long. I joined the W.R.N.S. soon after returning from Moscow late in 1941 and, after a spell overseas from 1940-45, I was married from the house not long after V.E. day.
On leave from Naval service in the middle years of the war, I remember the joy of walking with Eve Simmonds at Lovely, old-fashioned scented flowers - magic moments to leaven my austere service life.
William Simmonds and my father had much in common and became firm friends; my father was himself quite an accomplished carpenter, and had a great appreciation of and respect for the work of craftsmen such as William.
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The Pat Carrick Collection
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“Letter and Interview with Sir Stafford Cripps Daughter,” Oakridge Archives, accessed May 14, 2024, https://oakridgearchives.omeka.net/items/show/480.