Households
Found in 18 Collections and/or Records:
Personal: Business correspondence., Oct 1945 - Dec 1946
Personal: Chequers [Buckinghamshire]: Household Accounts., 29 Jan 1942 - 23 Dec 1942
Personal: Chequers [Buckinghamshire]: Household accounts etc., Jan 1941 - 17 Dec 1941
Personal: Chequers [Buckinghamshire]: Household accounts, etc., 1940
Personal: Chequers: Household accounts., 01 Oct 1940 - 13 Oct 1943
Household accounts for Chequers [Buckinghamshire], Jan-Dec 1943, with correspondence, mainly with Ministry of Food on supply of additional rations for official entertaining.
Personal: Chequers: Household accounts: Correspondence., 17 Feb 1944 - 02 Nov 1944
Correspondence with Government Hospitality Fund on payments for official overseas guests at Chequers [Buckinghamshire], and with the Ministry of Food on the supply of additional rations for official entertainment.
Personal: Household Correspondence: Chequers [Buckinghamshire]., 01 Jan 1945 - 03 Aug 1945
Correspondence with Government Hospitality Fund on payments for official overseas guests at Chequers, with lists of guests, Oct 1944 - Aug 1945, and with the Ministry of Food on supply of additional rations for official entertaining.
Public and Political: General: Various: "I guarded Winston" by Ex-Inspector Walter Thompson: typescript., 1939 - 1945
Public and Political: General: Various: "I worked for Mr Churchill" by Elizabeth Layton, typescript., 1947
(Untitled), 12 May 1942
Letter from WSC to Miss G Lamont [Administrator, Chequers, Buckinghamshire] thanking her for the birthday cake.
(Untitled), 13 Apr 1942 - 30 Oct 1942
Correspondence between Francis Brown [Private Secretary to WSC], WSC, Lieutenant-General Bernard Paget [Commander-in-Chief, Home Forces] and "Bert" [10th Duke of Marlborough, earlier Lord Blandford] on arrangements for Marlborough to be Liaison Officer to General Hugh Ellis, Regional Commissioner, Southern Command and also on the defences of [?] Chequers [Buckinghamshire].
(Untitled), 26 Mar 1941
Minute from Commander [Charles] Thompson [Personal Assistant to WSC] to General [Sir Hastings] Ismay [Chief of Staff to the Minister of Defence] on the camouflage of a monument north-east of Chequers [Buckinghamshire], an oddly ploughed field near the house, and provision of "mobile guns" to protect WSC. Copy.
(Untitled), 17 Jun 1941 - 18 Jun 1941
Minute from Commander [Charles] Thompson [Personal Assistant to WSC] to WSC on withdrawing the Chequers [Buckinghamshire] guard "during, or immediately preceding, active operations in this country" and WSC's reply agreeing to this if he gets "definite prior notice". Copies.
(Untitled), 23 Jun 1941
Letter from "C R T" [Commander Charles Thompson, Personal Assistant to WSC] to [Vernon] Bovenizer [Assistant Private Secretary to the Secretary of State for War] (War Office) stating that WSC has no objection to the guard being withdrawn from Chequers [Buckinghamshire] in circumstances of "imminent active operations". Copy.
(Untitled), 28 Apr 1941 - 07 May 1941
Note and minute from Commander [Charles] Thompson [Personal Assistant to WSC] to WSC on camouflaging the lakes at Chartwell [Kent] and a monument at Chequers [Buckinghamshire], attaching a note from Captain John [G] Churchill, Camouflage Officer, Anti-Aircraft Command. Manuscript note and signed typescripts.
(Untitled), 26 May 1945
Minute from John Martin [Prime Minister's Principal Private Secretary] to CSC stating that they will be happy to give up the Private Secretary's bedroom at Chequers for John S Churchill; and that he has asked Commander Charles Thompson [Personal Assistant to the Minister of Defence] to arrange for telephones to be installed in Number One bedroom. Initialled. Copy. Annotated messages from Martin to Thompson and from Thompson to Martin on these arrangements.
(Untitled), 25 May 1945
Minute from CSC to John Martin [Prime Minister's Principal Private Secretary] suggesting that when John S Churchill arrives at Chequers he occupies the Private Secretary's bedroom; and that the Number One bedroom could be used instead by the Private Office. Initialled. Annotated.
(Untitled), 28 Mar 1945
Note [?from Private Office] to WSC informing him of Bernard Baruch's expected arrival in the United Kingdom tomorrow [29 Mar 1945], giving details of Mr Baruch's party, and asking about the arrangements at Chequers for entertaining Mr Baruch, Brendan Bracken [Minister of Information] and John Winant [United States Ambassador in London] [annotated typescript].