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Newspapers : From Birmingham Post 150 years ago
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paul stacey
master brummie
Done it, well this what saddens me about to-days society, although not overtly religious my self, I do understand the cohesioness and stability it brings to a society, so often I feel that society seems rudderless drifting, not for everyone I know, but simply my opinion.Paul
DavidGrain
master brummie
4 hours from Birmingham to London and 5 hours back. Travellors 150 years ago would not believe today's timings. Of course going via Reading, GWR in those days was still the Great Way Round
paul stacey
master brummie
Amazed that no light was supplied in carrages, even more amazed you went via Reading to Birmingham, Paul
DavidGrain
master brummie
See my previous post. The "Bicester Cut Off" via High Wycombe was not built until 1907. This forms much of the route taken today by Chiltern trains from Birmingham to London Marylebone today
19.4.1866
Half an hour to issue a library book !. Maybe the new library isn't so bad after all, compared to that.
A site is finally announced for the statue of Prince Albert. Except that it did not actually go there, as can be seen at https://www.pmsa.org.uk/pmsa-database/5964/
It is suggested that the poor rate, supposedly raised to support the poor, should be imposed on the workhouse, which aims to support the poor. I should think Osborne and his city friends would like that idea.
Half an hour to issue a library book !. Maybe the new library isn't so bad after all, compared to that.
A site is finally announced for the statue of Prince Albert. Except that it did not actually go there, as can be seen at https://www.pmsa.org.uk/pmsa-database/5964/
It is suggested that the poor rate, supposedly raised to support the poor, should be imposed on the workhouse, which aims to support the poor. I should think Osborne and his city friends would like that idea.
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Re 'Free Library' letter. So much for educating the masses and making reading matter more accessible. It shows that many still didn't want an educated lower class despite in principle these being 'free libraries'. Viv.
DavidGrain
master brummie
I am wondering if the delay was caused by not having the books on open stacks but by users having to request books. This was how we worked in the old Reference Library in my student days.
DavidGrain
master brummie
Paul, I think you are replying to a post I made on another thread.
Hi Paul I've moved your post to the 'Outside toilet' thread. Hope that's Ok. Viv.
paul stacey
master brummie
Ooouppsss , sorry!, senior moment, many thanks, apologies.Paul
paul stacey
master brummie
Although I have stated before on this thread, the enormous amounts of serious fires in Victorian Birmingham was massive, £2000 in 1866 must run into the £100's of thousands in to days money, I am always amazed that there is very small loss of life in most reported fires.Paul
paul stacey
master brummie
Yes Mike, I too had noticed some time ago that a lot of these fires happened at night when everyone went home, it had occurred to me that perhaps some of these were not by accident.Paul
23.4.1866
Sounds like the Peaky blinders and Al Capone had some predescessors in Birmingham then with the goings on at The Prince of Wales Theatre.
A Birmingham cricket club is formed to play at Aston Park, while coincidentally on the same day a correspondent laments the absence of a decent Edgebaston club because there was no decent ground. This was remedied , but not for another 20 years.
Finally an amusing misunderstanding by the French - and they say the British are the ones who do not bother to understand foreign languages,
Sounds like the Peaky blinders and Al Capone had some predescessors in Birmingham then with the goings on at The Prince of Wales Theatre.
A Birmingham cricket club is formed to play at Aston Park, while coincidentally on the same day a correspondent laments the absence of a decent Edgebaston club because there was no decent ground. This was remedied , but not for another 20 years.
Finally an amusing misunderstanding by the French - and they say the British are the ones who do not bother to understand foreign languages,
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paul stacey
master brummie
Another at night with just the stock destroyed, also most reports state that 2 insurance company's are the norm, one for buildings and one for stock, this is also leaving me with a suspicion that things are not what they seem. In this period of Empire, to equate items for sale with the Military gave it a sort of enhanced superior quality. Paul
paul stacey
master brummie
Wow what a magnificant experience to see the great, "Charles Dickens", wish I had lived then. Paul
28.4.1866
The Bristol to Birmingham Railway to reduce its fares. The fares may at first seem quite low until you note the value of money at that time.
Graffiti are not just a modern invention, though not so many would try to mark glass today (probably break it instead !) Even Shakespeare's birthplace was not immune.
The Bristol to Birmingham Railway to reduce its fares. The fares may at first seem quite low until you note the value of money at that time.
Graffiti are not just a modern invention, though not so many would try to mark glass today (probably break it instead !) Even Shakespeare's birthplace was not immune.
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30,4,1866
I can't help thinking that if an advert such as Mr McCreery's appeared today advertising that he would clean, dye and curl ladies feathers it might attract some attention
The extract from the New York Saturday Press did not only show the difference in British and American humour, but also that their spelling of words was even worse then than now .
I can't help thinking that if an advert such as Mr McCreery's appeared today advertising that he would clean, dye and curl ladies feathers it might attract some attention
The extract from the New York Saturday Press did not only show the difference in British and American humour, but also that their spelling of words was even worse then than now .
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Re. William Scholefield's absence from the cricket club event - the strain on him from his MP/House of Commons Committee work must have been starting to show as he died of heart failure a year later. Viv.
3.5.1866
Plans for Harborne railway being prepared.Only a short length of that planned was built, to Harborne, which was eventually opened in 1874.
Accident to fire engine on way to fire.
Sanatorium for the less well off needing rest and convalescence is to go ahead.
Have heard it said around 1900 that cars frighten the horses, but before that it was apparently trains that did this.
Plans for Harborne railway being prepared.Only a short length of that planned was built, to Harborne, which was eventually opened in 1874.
Accident to fire engine on way to fire.
Sanatorium for the less well off needing rest and convalescence is to go ahead.
Have heard it said around 1900 that cars frighten the horses, but before that it was apparently trains that did this.
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