ABSTRACT

Shortly before Robert's fortieth birthday (March 26, 1914), the family had found a tenant to take over the lease at The Bungalow in Beaconsfield and the Gibsons had reached agreement on a lease at Little Iddens in Ledington. By mid-April, having completed a week of sightseeing in London, the Frosts boarded a train for Gloucester. The Abercrombies and the Gibsons met the train at the Dymock railroad station with two large carriages, in all likelihood two of the Beauchamp Arms traps, which could be called upon to meet the train from Gloucester. When the Frost family occupied Little Iddens, there was a tiny kitchen with pantry in the downstairs, with an earthen floor and an old-fashioned wood stove and baking oven. Flanking the kitchen was a combination living-dining room separated from another living area by a hallway running front to back, each end with a door leading to the outside.