Advertisement: "REQUIRED, capable woman to prepare and cook mid-day meal for about a dozen munition workers, 6 days per week. Apply in writing, Althorpe Engineering Co. Ltd., 18, Bellevue Road, Wandsworth Common."
The following day at Hayes Common, Jacqueline Fletcher of 1 Althorp Road, Wandsworth Common, was to be crowned London's May Queen. For two years in succession Jacqueline had been an attendant to Balham's May Queen, and in 1940 she was herself elected and crowned Balham's Queen. Now aged 14, she was a clever dancer and good elocutionist, born in Battersea and winner of a scholarship from Belleville Road School tenable at Balham Central School. She was the only child of Quartermaster-Sergeant James Fletcher, Royal Army Pay Corps, and Mrs Fletcher.
The Illustrated London News reproduced drawings of London and its environs by Samuel Hieronymus Grimm, a Swiss artist who arrived in England in 1768 and for 26 years moved ceaselessly about the country recording social life and scenes. He had a real enthusiasm for nature and "took delight in drawing peaceful corners of urban and rural districts, everyday scenes and everyday people."
On re-checking the list of competitors in the recent "Dig for Victory" contest, a mistake was found in the award of the silver cup for the best allotment in Battersea. The Ministry of Agriculture had originally announced the winner as Mr George Biggs of 220 Battersea Bridge Road, cultivating Allotment 104 in Battersea Park. On discovery of the error, it emerged that the rightful winner was Mr H.J. Freeman of 90 Bramfield Road, who also cultivated Allotment 104 — but whose plot was on Wandsworth Common, not in Battersea Park.