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1930/Day: “Chronicle of Sunnybank”Scope and Content
“Chronicle of Sunnybank”. Sunnybank was the name of Dorothy’s house in Waverley Road, St Albans.
The date of this piece can be worked out as being March 1930 (George V reigned from 1910 to 1936).
Dother was Dorothy, and "the sister of Dother" is Kathleen. The Chronicle records various obscure family jokes and extensive teasing, including the hiding of Humphrey’s beloved tobacco pipe. This made him furious – ‘Anselm the prophet waxed exceeding wroth’. Anselm the prophet is eventually rescued by Kathleen, ‘the sister of Dother’, who comes in a car with her daughter Monica and bears him away, presumably to her house Holland Moor in Radlett, because "he is highly strung and unable to abide [more] in these happenings".
Modern day image of Sunnybank, still called Sunnybank, at 26 Waverley Road, InstantStreetView.
