Newspapers : From Birmingham Post 150 years ago

[mikejee]

20.11.1865
I wonder today, if pages of magazines were not cut pre-sale, what percentage of "coffee table magazines" (Vogue, Country life, Yorkshire Life, The Lady etc) would prove to have actually been read. I presume "The Dove in the Eagle's Nest" was the then equivalent of "Why my husband has left me for a lesbian"

 

[mikejee]

21.11.1865
Fall of glasshouse chimney in Great Francis St.

 

[mikejee]

23.11.1865
A storm came over Birmingham, and made pinnacles on the Grammar school rock, broke plate glass windows, and tore off metal shutters.

A cartoonist would have a lovely time with a title like "Fat Pig show"

Saturday Night Cases, a rather unfortunate description of what was probably a not-uncommon happening

 

[mikejee]

27.11.1865

Sale of Deritend brewery

Food wasn't very reliable in the mid nineteenth century.

 

[devonjim]

27.11.1865


Food wasn't very reliable in the mid nineteenth century.
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Just like having horse meat in a beef lasagne

 

[Phil]

Mike

I know Moseley Street (if it's the same one) but a junction with Brewery Street is new to me. Any idea where it was?

 

[mikejee]

Phil
I would have been going round in circles asking the same question if some time ago I had not come across it, Brewery St became part of Alcester St, as can be seen on the c 1866 map below. The brewery is marked in red.

 

[Phil]

Mike

Now that is something I didn't know, it looks as if the brewery was on the site of the old Rowton House

 

[mikejee]

That had not registered Phil, but yes it was. Between the two uses the c1889 map shows it as a hay stores.
PS - my typing is bad. Good job I checked as I had typed gay stores !

 

[mikejee]

29.11.1865

Report on explosion at fog signal manufactory, apparently because a worker tried to separate two fog signals that were stuck together by hammering them on the bench !

 

[mikejee]

30.11.1865

Opening of dog show postponed for a few days as newly built Curzon Hall not quite ready. They seemed surprised then that it was not built on time, but perhaps then there were strong penalties for not keeping to a contract.

 

[mikejee]

1.12.1865
Another explosion at a percussion cap factory

Opening date for dog show, previously postponed, announced, the first event at Curzon Hall

Housewarming party for the newly built Junction pub , wheeler St,

 

[mikejee]

4.12.1865
Fire at a tallow chandlery could be quite serious I would have thought

The Dudley fire brigade sounds a bit like the keystone kops

 

[paul stacey]

As I have mentioned before, very hazardous place Victorian England. Paul

 

[DavidGrain]

I think as the Dudley Police were the fire brigade they were the Keystone Cops. It makes you wonder how long it would have taken in those days to send for a fire engine from Birmingham. Mr Chief Superintendent does sound very formal to us.

 

[mikejee]

5.12.1865
Mysterious classified ad, which presumablyb does not mean the obvious

 

[mikejee]

6.12.1865
20 years after Dickens wrote A Christmas Carol, Scrooge still lives !

Fire at Blews & Son

Cattle going through Birmingham market

 

[paul stacey]

#2297, maybe snooker game??Paul

 

[DavidGrain]

#2297, maybe snooker game??Paul

The sums of money don't tie up with anything I could think about. Don't know if snooker was invented then. When Joe Davis won the World Snooker Championship in 1930s at Kings Norton British Legion Club it was said that his prize money was £6. 10s and his bus fare home

 

[paul stacey]

I was trying to fit in a saying of shoot, from guns, football, etc, snooker I believe was in vented in "The British Rahj" in about the 1840's, but cannot be sure. Paul

 

[DavidGrain]

Paul, I can tell you that the first official rules of Snooker were written in the "Snooty" Ooty Club in Madras in 1882. I was not criticising your suggestion that it was a game. I was just commenting that it could not be snooker. What I was really puzzled about was the reference to £5 to £10 which was an enormous sum of money in those days.

 

[mikejee]

8.12.1865
Christmas request

 

[mikejee]

9.12.1865
An artiste objects to comments of critic and assaults him in what appears to be a hissy spat. As the report is long, only the beginning and end are reproduced.

 

[mikejee]

12.12.1865
The Rindepest outbreak has reached proportions that necessitate control of movement of animals, though there are arguments as to how well the restrictions will work because of exemptions

 

[mikejee]

14.12.1865
Suggestion of voluntary suggested working conditions in some firms

 

[mikejee]

I still have copies of all those snippits posted that were lost in the crash, but will not be reposing unless there is a request.
Staring from 12.2.1866 it is interesting that the behaviour of this church in Wolverhampton seems to hav ebeen considered to be somewhat revolutionary, showing how little the church then did to carry out the supposed policy of their God.
On 13.2.1866, a report , also from Wolverhampton , shows cockfighting was still prevalent in the country
On 8.2.1866 there is a terrible boiler explosion in smethwick
On 16.1.1866 & 15.1.1866 there is a report on treatment of inhabitants of the birmingham workhouse.

 

[mikejee]

14.2.1866
Possible 7 days in prison for snowballing a policeman

 

[paul stacey]

In those days respect for the law and the enforcement law officers was every thing, also disaplin weather self, or general was demanded by law, 2/- to a working man was about 12 pints of beer, so an expensive night.Paul

 

[mikejee]

15.2.1866

Passenger killed at Sutton station
I wonder what comments people would have today on the Queer Fellows Indeed Friendly Society. Probably ask "How Friendly?"

 

[mikejee]

16.2.1866
An interesting master class on how to burgle a safe in the 1860s