The following Saturday I head out to the record office again,
this time checking I have water bottle, teabags and food before I leave.
My intention during this visit is to look at the Rural
District Council minutes for Gipping.
The volumes when they arrive are huge and also handwritten, initially
the handwriting is difficult to read, then there is a change in staff and the
handwriting changes becoming so much easier.
I soon become used to the pattern of the minutes and structure
of the meetings which on the whole follow are the same at each meeting, as a result scanning
through gets faster.
I get side tracked, this time by the destruction of
rats. A letter from East Suffolk Agricultural
Committee dated 18th January 1940 asks for co-operation from the
committee in the destruction of rats, a campaign was set in motion and 2,102
rats destroyed.
Later in the year at the meeting on 27th
September East Suffolk Agricultural Committee stress the desirability of tails
being submitted for payment rather than whole carcases. It is
a fascinating snapshot into the time.
I find one snippet of information relating to the WLA.
After lunch it is back to the East Anglian. This time I jump into 1943 – there was quite
a bit going on at the time so make some notes.
There is also a brief report on someone making rabbit
hutches that are never delivered and a rather disturbing story about the discovery
of mummified baby remains wrapped in brown paper, tied up with string and found
on top of a wardrobe in a house in Ipswich.
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