WEST END MUSEUM GETS
MISS MOODY ARCHIVE

We are fortunate, as a Society, to have been donated some of the effects of the late Miss Winifred Lucy Moody JP, by Mr & Mrs Norman Woodford. Amongst the items for our museum archives are photographs (unfortunately few are named or dated), letters of sympathy received on the death of her Mother, old music scores, 78 rpm records, her schoolbooks from 1913, old programmes etc.. They all help to build up a picture of the life of this well known West End lady, filling in some of the details we did not previously know.
Miss Moody, as most people refer to her, was born around 1902 to William & Laura Moody of Dog Kennel Farm, Telegraph Road. The farm looked out onto several acres of orchards and land to the north. Her family moved, at an unknown date, to the substantial red-bricked Kenilworth House, closer to the High Street but still on Telegraph Road, where they lived a comfortable life-style.
From her effects we learn that she had an older sister named Elsie who died in 1911, aged only 22 years. She also had a brother William, still alive in 1939, of whom we would like to know more. Her father died the year following that of her mother in 1939. Winifred Moody died in 1987.
A private education at Linden College,Woolston was received by young Miss Moody and her schoolbooks reveal her to have been an average pupil in 1913! Her love of music, both classical and religious works, soon shone through as she grew up. She had an impressive
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