New Year greetings to one and all! Thank you to all those who have generously supported our ‘Friends’ campaign to establish an endowment fund, the value of which we will publish at our financial year-end.
“Cobbold & Kin Biographies of an East Anglian Family” is our chosen title for the book which we plan to have published this autumn, subject, of course, to meeting our publisher’s requirements. The author is Dr Clive Hodges and he is on target to meet the deadline. We think you will love it!
Copies of 5 Cobbold Wills have been purchased as part of our ongoing enhancement of the archive plus a listing of all the others which are available.
Thanks go to Christine Haines and to Virginia van der Lande this month for gifts of papers (re. Adela H Cobbold and Richard Cobbold, respectively) for inclusion in the archive.
The Longest Day. We acquired a DVD of this classic war film as we understood that the part of Bill Millin, Lord Lovat’s personal piper, was played by himself. Bill Millin’s obituary, however suggests otherwise so we may have made an error. Lord Lovat is the subject of one of the biographies in our forthcoming book. If you don’t know about Bill Millin, you will have to buy the book!