Tag: Nottingham
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Wednesday 28 November 1923
Went to Nottm. Went to Labour meeting @ Market Hall. Notes Nottm refers to Nottingham. This meeting that grandad attended was presumably part of the run-up to the December General Election, see Chapter 25. The Market Hall was the name of the Festival Hall in Kirkby before it was renamed at the time of the…
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Sunday 11 November 1923
Went to Organ Recital Albert Hall Nottm. Notes Nottm refers to Nottingham. For details of the Albert Hall, see Chapter 54. I found a notice of this organ recital in the Nottingham Evening Post the previous day. In fact, there were two organ recitals, one in the afternoon at 2.45 and another at 6pm. They…
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Wednesday 7 November 1923
Went to Nottm. Bought a coat 55/-. Notes Nottm refers to Nottingham. 55/- denotes fifty five shillings which also could have been written as £2 15s 0d. For details of coats and other clothes grandad bought between 1914 and 1938, see Chapter 27.
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Sunday 2 September 1923
Went to Nottm. Notes Nottm refers to Nottingham. For details of places grandad visited between the wars, see Chapter 18.
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Wednesday 8 August 1923
Went to Nottm. Notes Nottm stands for Nottingham. For more details of places that grandad travelled to between the wars, see Chapter 18.
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Wednesday 1 August 1923
The Prince of Wales passed through Kirkby to Nottm. After tea went to Nottm. Notes I am not exactly sure this says Kirkby but it could. Nottm refers to Nottingham. The Prince of Wales referred to here is the future King Edward VIII. For more details of this visit, see Chapter 26.