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HertsAndEssexObserver published Obituary: Caring founder of Stortford's first travel agency, Eva...

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The woman who founded Bishop's Stortford's first travel agency – and journeyed from working as a wartime railway booking clerk to selling Concorde tickets to New York to sculptor Henry Moore – has died aged 99.After setting up what later became Clayden's Travel Agency in Market Square in 1949, Eva Ashpole helped thousands book their holidays.Maggie (later Margaret, by deed poll) Eva Clayden was born in Clavering on May 31, 1916. The eldest daughter of farm labourer Hedley Clayden...

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