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Newspapers : Birmingham Papers (usually BhamPost) 150 Years Ago 1867-
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Lady Penelope
master brummie
Mike, Graham had a very nasty fall some years ago caused by orange peel (although in his case some of the orange remained). We were just crossing the road round the back of St Martin's.
Pedrocut
Master Barmmie
29.5.1867
Unusual wording in advertisement. Never noticed a house referred to as "respectable" before in advert. Would not have thought Wheeleys road to be anything other than respectable in 1867.
The promoters of the event in support of the Tindal Road refuge are trying to attract as many as possible. Particularly like the statement that there will be "no extortion". If only this could be enforced on the overpaid charity "consultants " today.
Unusual wording in advertisement. Never noticed a house referred to as "respectable" before in advert. Would not have thought Wheeleys road to be anything other than respectable in 1867.
The promoters of the event in support of the Tindal Road refuge are trying to attract as many as possible. Particularly like the statement that there will be "no extortion". If only this could be enforced on the overpaid charity "consultants " today.
30.5.1867
Not Birmingham, but the escape of three gorillas from Manders Menagerie must have reminded locals that hte menagerie had only recently visited Birmingham
William Murphy's "Tabernacle", constructed after not being allowed to speak in the town hall is attacked. Events concerning this structure would later lead to the Riot Act being read when religious maniacs from both sides started causing trouble
Fire at Hurchinson's rope works , Park Road.
Waxworks come to Birmingham.
Not Birmingham, but the escape of three gorillas from Manders Menagerie must have reminded locals that hte menagerie had only recently visited Birmingham
William Murphy's "Tabernacle", constructed after not being allowed to speak in the town hall is attacked. Events concerning this structure would later lead to the Riot Act being read when religious maniacs from both sides started causing trouble
Fire at Hurchinson's rope works , Park Road.
Waxworks come to Birmingham.
8.6.1867
Apparently the parish authorities in Birmingham believed that it was illegal to appeal against a tax assessment after being told you could do so ! Possibly some officials today have a similar point of view in regard to disability payments.
Initiation rites still occur today, but, as then sometimes go too far
Apparently the parish authorities in Birmingham believed that it was illegal to appeal against a tax assessment after being told you could do so ! Possibly some officials today have a similar point of view in regard to disability payments.
Initiation rites still occur today, but, as then sometimes go too far
DavidGrain
master brummie
I think 'Caution' here means 'Attention'. However I am trying to think of cases where I would use the word caution other than as a warning and I cannot think of any.
Lady Penelope
master brummie
Mike, where would the Horse Show be? Would it be the same as the Horse Fair? I wonder what the Pleasure Fair was.
Also, I eat a lot of lettuce but 150 dozen seems an over abundance to me and not terribly exciting to entice people in. Altogether a very strange advert.
Also, I eat a lot of lettuce but 150 dozen seems an over abundance to me and not terribly exciting to entice people in. Altogether a very strange advert.
Radiorails
master brummie
Wackford Squeers did not come by his name by happenstance. 
29.6.1867
Some rather peculiar arguments were put this week, one in council, the other in court;
A councillor considered that industrial schools ( a form of young offenders institution) might cause parents to throw their children out of their home.
A magistrate considered that a woman stealing an "immoral" book could be discharged as having done no wrong. (the relevant book was a supposed description of the evils of Catholicism). Presumably the magistrate was a Roman Catholic
Some rather peculiar arguments were put this week, one in council, the other in court;
A councillor considered that industrial schools ( a form of young offenders institution) might cause parents to throw their children out of their home.
A magistrate considered that a woman stealing an "immoral" book could be discharged as having done no wrong. (the relevant book was a supposed description of the evils of Catholicism). Presumably the magistrate was a Roman Catholic
DavidGrain
master brummie
I think actually that it was possible that the magistrate was anti-Catholic. There was much hostility at that time between Catholics and Protestants. In 1880 the Rev'd Richard Enraught, vicar of Holy Trinity Bordesley, was sent to Warwick Prison for what were regarded as 'Catholic' practices during services in church.
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Pedrocut
Master Barmmie
Meanwhile over in Wolverhampton....
William Murphy brought with him copies of the booklet 'The Confessional Unmasked' which, though it had not been written by him, contained similar views to his own. On march 4 the Watch Committee banned the sale of this book, but during the following week Mr Scott, of Waterloo Road, was visited by the police and found to be in the possession of 252 copies. [WC 6th Mar 1867] The books were seized and Scott ordered to appear before the town's magistrates, who found him guilty of selling an obscene publication. [WC 20th Mar 1867] On appeal at the Wolverhampton Quarter Sessions and with the personal support of Murphy himself, Scott won his case on a technicality and his books were returned to him. The Recorder, in giving his judgment, expressed the hope that the Catholic Church would take the case to a higher court and he gave "every facility for prosecuting such an appeal" because he believed that "day after day in this locality aspersions have been cast upon the religion and morals of Roman Catholics ... of whom there are no more faithful servants of the Queen". [WC 29th May 1867] In fact, the original verdict against Scott was reaffirmed on 29 April 1868 by the Lord Chief Justice Alexander Cockburn and four associates in the Queen's Bench who decided that the publication was likely to "deprave and corrupt the minds of those into whose hands the book might fall". [Arnstein op cit p.64].
https://www.historywebsite.co.uk/articles/catholics/jq16.htm
William Murphy brought with him copies of the booklet 'The Confessional Unmasked' which, though it had not been written by him, contained similar views to his own. On march 4 the Watch Committee banned the sale of this book, but during the following week Mr Scott, of Waterloo Road, was visited by the police and found to be in the possession of 252 copies. [WC 6th Mar 1867] The books were seized and Scott ordered to appear before the town's magistrates, who found him guilty of selling an obscene publication. [WC 20th Mar 1867] On appeal at the Wolverhampton Quarter Sessions and with the personal support of Murphy himself, Scott won his case on a technicality and his books were returned to him. The Recorder, in giving his judgment, expressed the hope that the Catholic Church would take the case to a higher court and he gave "every facility for prosecuting such an appeal" because he believed that "day after day in this locality aspersions have been cast upon the religion and morals of Roman Catholics ... of whom there are no more faithful servants of the Queen". [WC 29th May 1867] In fact, the original verdict against Scott was reaffirmed on 29 April 1868 by the Lord Chief Justice Alexander Cockburn and four associates in the Queen's Bench who decided that the publication was likely to "deprave and corrupt the minds of those into whose hands the book might fall". [Arnstein op cit p.64].
https://www.historywebsite.co.uk/articles/catholics/jq16.htm
1.7.1867
From now on I am again abstracting from the Birmingham Post, as the missing section has been passed by.
New church to be built in Great Colmore St, called St Asaph's
Information on brewing in England
Sale of contents of Grand Sultan Divan. A lot of beds and mattresses. nor surprising considering the place;s reputation
From now on I am again abstracting from the Birmingham Post, as the missing section has been passed by.
New church to be built in Great Colmore St, called St Asaph's
Information on brewing in England
Sale of contents of Grand Sultan Divan. A lot of beds and mattresses. nor surprising considering the place;s reputation
