Mrs Crocombe’s Manuscript

by Annie Gray

This is Avis Crocombe’s manuscript book as written. It was probably started in the late 1860s, when Avis was first appointed cook (or cook–housekeeper), and seems to have been kept until the Edwardian period or possibly a little later. Most of it is in her hand-writing, with a few entries uncertain and the last few pages definitely written by someone else.