1894, October 22, Monday a
Jewell came in about purchasing my apples in the orchard. I told him I had been told they were worth £5 and he might have them for £5 worth of pigs killed about next Christmas, but that I had not recently looked at them. He said he would see them and let Rosa know his mind about them. Lively drove Bell and me to Banbury. The weather was good, but there had been a frost during the night – the first this season. Left Banbury at 11.36. Saw Welburn, Vicar of Wardington, at the station. He had been very ill with pneumonia and was going South for a fortnight’s change of air. Rev B Smith travelled with us as far as Reading.
We reached Southampton at 3.32 and left for Swanwick 9 miles at 3.55, arriving about 4.30. My cousin William Green, and his eldest daughter, Kate, met us there with a handsome little mare and dogcart. I had not seen him for over 30 years. He said we had not met for 37, but I am inclined to think I saw him once at his place of business in Albury Road where his chief trade consists in the manufacture of watermark apparatus for Bank of England and other Banks’ notes, cheques etc. He has retired from active business in it four or five years and leaves the work to be done under the superintendence of his eldest son and a manager. The latter resides on the premises, the son, Frank, at Foots’ Cray, driving or riding to town every morning. All the family were at home except Frank, and received us most hospitably in their well appointed and beautiful home. Mrs Green (Harriet) Maude, Effie and Charlie, the second son. They are all very kind and nice.
