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30.6.1863
Aston fete was postponed because of the weather, but the new date was still not too efficacious.
Park St burial ground closed.
Have not heard the term Patlander before, presumably means Irish. Still trying to work out what a Rodney is.
3.7.1863
A possible Wolverhampton transvestite in 1863 ?
This must have been one of the earliest Mormons in the UK, as they only started prosyletising in the 1850s
6.7.1863
I thought this sort of thing only happened nowadays, when computers send out silly bills and then threatening letters. Come to think of it I've never heard of a fourpenney piece ?
I wonder if she would have been let off if she had not been thought of as a "lady", even though this one had a "partiality to brass bands and negro melodists"
HI GUYS
So according to what i have just seen viv; mike in the previous years
of our history there was such a thing as a four penny one a coin ;
which was taken out of circulation ; i wonder why may be they thought our generation would get confused or it was a change in the term of decimalization usage and more easy to count within the new generation of the period ;
also guys i have to admitt on the phrase of not hearing the exp[ression of a fourpenny one as a kid growing up just after the war years the term of expression was used by our much older generation of our country ;
when one angry and argumented to another person the thread of violence
this expression was used occasionianly i myself heard it from my mother and as a kid used it the word and it was used by older people and other kids
and said if you do not shut up i will give you a fourpenny one so scarper ;or else
i am sure there may or not may be older generation of sound mind may recall this expression but i do think there are not many of the older generation alive today whom could recall that expression ;
have a nice week end guys best wishes. Astonian;;
I've got a silver 4d piece on my charm bracelet, together with a silver 3d, they look almost the same, the writing has worn away. (I didn't drill them, I think that's illegal!). Gran used to put them in the Christmas Puddings.
rosie.
HI MIKE AND SYLV;
No i have never heard or seen the fourpenny coin being in circulation in my time guys like wise with the groat i have heard people speak in some kind of a country where they used the groat of yester years in history ;
but i have heard people say in the older days of the older generation
when to people are haveing a disagreement haveing a gripe ; meaning they are groat meaning they are gripeing over some think or another
i do beleive in our forign parts history there was a groat as a coinage for buying an item ;but we need to check our historty for that guys
i am sure some one will confirm that best wishes Astonian Alan;;;
7.7.1863
Seems a reasonable result here. What struck me was that one of the statutes quoted stated that it was unlawful for anyone under the rank of gentleman to play cards in a pub.
Must be a very loyal set of followers who are willing go to a lecture with no title or any indication as to what it is about, othe rthan presumably temperance or some such.
8.7.1863
Quite a commotion to disturb the Meadows of Balsall Heath, the description shows how the place has changed.
A daring though rather foolhardy pickpocket.
Wronged wife nearly bites of nose of rival.
I have been away for a few days (and I am not into mobile devices with internet access yet) so I am a bit late coming in on the fourpenny piece. A four pence was a groat and a two pence piece was a half-groat. They are still used along with silver pennies and silver threpences in the Maundy Money which the Queen gives out on the Thursday before Easter and I believe are still technically legal tender but I doubt if any of the recipients would ever spend them in a shop
9,7.1863
I suspect that few were sympathetic to a former workhouse master being made bankrupt
A phenomenon that unfortunately might well be be repeated today if dog licensees are re-introduced
10.7.1863
I assume the queens college museum may have been an early version of the city museum and art gallery.
Insurance companies trying to worm themselves out of paying are not a new phenomenum.
The dangers of quack medicines. Here the manufacturer seems to have put the wrong product in the bottle.
I assume the knobs were to aid attaching a rope to the animal, but have not heard of this practice, and think the result must have looked a little strange.
I don't know who Mr Marcus was but we have been told that excursion trains were invented by Thomas Cook when he hired a train from Leicester to Loughborough to take people to a temperance meeting
I don't know exactly who he was, but he had adverts in the Birmingham Post virtually every day at this time for excursions to London (largely for specific exhibitions and events) . the first , in issue number 2 of the Post , is below.
The Mr Joesbury mentioned was an engraver & printer
It looks like Henry Marcus was either an employee or some way associated with the LNWR.
This is the note from the Thomas Cook History website: The proposal was received with such enthusiasm that, on the following day, Thomas submitted his idea to the secretary of the Midland Railway Company. A train was subsequently arranged, and on 5 July 1841 about 500 passengers were conveyed in open carriages the enormous distance of 12 miles and back for a shilling.
13.7.1863
Another early product of Alfred Bird
They called it torture 150 years ago, when men were still regularly flogged with the cat o nine tails, long before it was called waterboarding
Not often you see the work Kali in print. I always remember that in any Woolworths that you went into the Kali counter was nearly always inside the door on the right.