| Description | 'This Diary was begun on my first leaving home for H.M. Whitlocks High St West Bromwich on March 22nd 1897'. Mostly brief daily entries [inconsistent]. Includes frequent reference to taking Sacrament, attending mass, confession and other religious services, and family visits. Includes lists of addresses for communication after he left Whitlock's employ in West Bromwich [c. Mar 1898].
References include: the Industrial Exhibition Bingley Hall [26 May 1897]; detailed description of events in London to celebrate the Diamond Jubilee of Queen Victoria [22 Jun 1897]; Sunday School festival at Tividale Church [4 Jul 1897]; 'Cycle Parade' [26 Jul 1897]; visit to Rugby [31 Jul-3 Aug 1897]; visit to Cannock [21-22 Jul 1897]; photographing 'Lizzie and children' [12 Sep 1897]; change of lodgings [18 Sep 1897]; seeing 'a very interesting tapestry map of Warwickshire' [the Sheldon Tapestry map of Warwickshire, which was on loan for the opening of the Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, 19 Sep 1897]; references to becoming a Sunday School teacher and first class [1, 10 Oct 1897]; illness of Harold Cadman [6 Mar, 23 Mar 1898]; giving Whitlock notice [26 Mar 1898]; going to see Harry [Speight]'s new business at Leamington [5 Apr 1898]; taking over Clare [Speight]'s business in Nuneaton whilst he was away on holiday [14-30 Apr 1898]; visiting 'Gull' [Gulliver Speight's photographic business] in [Market] Harborough [5 May 1898]; taking photographs with Charlie [Charles Speight] at Rushdon Hall [6 May 1898]; taking 'an At Home portrait of Lady Hood' and swimming in the new baths at [Market] Harborough [7 May 1898]; a bicycle tour with Gull to the south of Oxford, Salisbury, Southampton, Winchester and London [11-14 May 1898]; being engaged by Walter Davey of Harrogate [19 May 1898]; arriving in Harrogate [21 May 1898]; walking to Knaresborough [22, 29 May 1898]; Mattins service at Killinghall Church [5 Jun 1898]; becoming a Sunday School teacher and first class [17-19 Jun 1898]; and notice to terminate employment at Davey's [2 Jul 1898].
In exercise book. Cover loose. |