LADIES YEARBOOK 1916 ONE SHILLING
WATCH NUMBER:105757
GLOVE SIZE: 61/4 TO 61/2
BOOTS:6
THERE IS ONLY ONE ADDRESS ENTERED IN THE DIARY- MAY ? WIDDISON, ROSSENDALE , NUNNERY ROAD, CANTERBURY.
THERE ARE SOME SURNAMES AND TWO PHONE NUMBERS INCLUDING 'FATHER'
UNDER MEMORANDA- TWO POEMS BY ADAM LINDSAY GORDON.( SEE BELOW )
I'VE HAD MY SHARE OF PASTIMES AND I'VE DONE MY SHARE OF TOIL AND LIFE IS SHORT-THE LONGEST LIFE A SPAN(?) I CARE NOT NOW TO TARRY FOR THE CORN OR FOR THE OIL, OR FOR THE WINE THAT MAKETH GLAD THE HEART OF MAN.
FOR GOOD UNDONE AND GIFTS MISPENT AND RESOLUTIONS VAIN, 'TIS SOMEWHAT LATE TO TROUBLE. THIS I KNOW .........I SHOULD LIVE, THE SAME LIFE OVER, IF I HAD TO LIVE AGAIN AND THE CHANCES ARE I GO WHERE MOST MEN GO.
ADAM LINDSAY GORDON
THE PAST, THE DEAD PAST THAT HAS SWALLOWED ALL THE HONEY OF LIFE AND THE MILK.BRIGHTER DREAMS THAN MERE PASTIMES WE'VE FOLLOWED, BETTER THINGS THAN OUR SCARLET OR SILK;AY,AND WORSE THINGS:THAT PAST, IS IT REALLY DEAD TO US,WHO AGAIN AND AGAIN FEEL SHARPLY, HEAR PLAINLY, SEE CLEARLY PAST DAYS WITH THEIR JOY AND THEIR PAIN.
ADAM LINDSAY GORDON
SATURDAY JANUARY 1ST 1916
DORIS CROOKES CAME TONIGHT. MISS MEGRA(?) CAME WITH IVY FOR LUNCH.
MOTHER AND FATHER WENT TO SEE 'DOTASH AND PERLMUTTER' THIS AFTERNOON. TONIGHT THEY HAVE GONE TO STERNDALES FOR SUPPER------TO MEET A GRIMSBY KIPPER.
(DOES ANYONE KNOW WHAT A GRIMSBY KIPPER IS?)
SUNDAY JANUARY 2ND 1916
GOT UP RATHER LATE. RAINED NEARLY ALL DAY. UNCLE AND AUNTIE AND ETHEL AND PARKIN CAME FOR SUPPER. DORIS AND G. WENT TO CHURCH.--------? FOR ME,THE FIRST VISIT TO ST. CUTHBERT'S SINCE I WENT WITH SONNIE.
MONDAY JANUARY 3RD 1916
WENT TO TOWN THS MORNING. TOOK DORIS TO FIELDS. TONIGHT WE WENT TO FIRVALE. DORIS TOOK SOME CIGARETTES.KNAPMAN(A WOUNDED SOLDIER) HAD A RIPPING TIME. AFTERWARDS WE WENT UP TO SHIREGREEN . MET JACKS AUNTIE FROM AFRICA.
TUESDAY JANUARY 4TH 1916
GOT UP IN TIME FOR LUNCH. DORIS WENT HOME TO NIGHT(4-30 TRAIN) KNAPMAN MET ME AND WE WENT TO FIELDS! HE GOES TOMORROW TO DONCASTER FOR A WEEK,THEN HOME TO LONDON,WHERE E GETS A COMMISSION.
WEDNESDAY JANUARY 5TH 1916
PERCY EVERETT(?) CALLED ABOUT TEATIME (HE IS HOME FROM THE FRONT FOR A WEEK) STAYED RATHER LATE.HE LOOKS WELL BUT HE IS SO 'LANQUEILIG'*
(DOES ANYONE KNOW WHAT THIS WORD * MEANS -IS IT GERMAN? )
THURSDAY JANUARY 6TH 1916
MRS STANDALL CALLED TO KNOW WHERE MRS WEYERS LIVED SO I TOOK HER. AFTERWARDS WENT TO STRINGERS, TO SAY THAT WE CAN GO TO-MORROW.
FRIDAY JANUARY 7TH 1916
WENT TO STRINGERS. PERCYS PARTY IT REALLY WAS.STAYED UNTIL 2AM. OH IT WAS SLOW. HAD A ROTTEN LETTER FROM JEAN, I DON'T KNOW WHETHER TO GO BACK OR NOT.DON'T THINK I SHALL.
SATURDAY JANUARY 8TH 1916
HAD TEA WITH IVY AT FIELDS AND MISS HARVEY TOO. SAW MR AND MRS ROBINSON AND MRS DENTON AN THE KIDDIES.PLAYED CARDS TONIGHT.
SUNDAY JANUARY 9TH 1916
WENT TO CHURCH TONIGHT. LATER IVY AND I WENT TO STERNDALE FOR SUPPER.
MONDAY JANUARY 10TH 1916
MOTHER AND FATHER WENT TO HIPPERDROME.I STAYED IN ALONE .MRS STERNDALE CALLED.
TUESDAY JANUARY 11TH 1916
BABY(?) STERNDALE HAS BEEN HERE ALLDAY. MRS S. AND MR S. CAME FOR TEA.KNAPMAN WAS OVER TONIGHT, SO WE WENT A LONG WALK ROUND SOUTHEY. I CALLED AT 'OAKLEIGH' FOR A FEW MINUTES.
WEDNESDAY JANUARY 12TH 1916
LOVELY LETTER FROM JACK-WRITTEN DEC 12TH. IT HAS BEEN DELAYED. HE WROTE IT FROM SULVA(?) BAY, BUT THE ALLIES HAVE LEFT THERE NOW.I WONDER WHERE HE IS ? MR WADDELL CAME TONIGHT.
THURSDAY JANUARY 13TH 1916
STAYED IN ALL DAY.MADE MOTHER AN AWFULLY SWEET DUSTCAP. ALSO A DRESS ALTERED FOR ME FOR CONCERTS ETC.
FRIDAY JANUARY 14TH 1916
PERCY EVERETT HAS NOT BEEN ABLE TO GO BACK.HE IS ILL AT BASE HOSPITAL, WITH TONSILITIS. LOVELY DAY.
SATURDAY JANUARY 15TH 1916
LOVELY WEATHER.REPOTTED ALL MOTHERS PLANTS THIS MORNING.WENT TO TOWN AFTER TEA. ALSO TO CONVENT FOR OXFORD EXAM SYLLABUS.RANG TWEEDY UP. PLAYED CARDS TO-NIGHT.
SUNDAY JANUARY 16TH 1916
IVY HAD A LONG LETTER FROM ELSE(?) RUEBSMAN(?) CAME THROUGH SWITZERLAND.STAYED IN BED TILL TEA BECAUSE I FELT SO ILL. MET TWEEDY TONIGHT AND I WENT FOR A WALK ROUND ECCLESFIELD CALLED AT SHIREGREEN.
MONDAY JANUARY 17TH 1916
CAME INTO WOODSETTS BY THE EARLY TRAIN-------------ILLEGIBLE-----------.JEAN IS STILL AT -------------?
TUESDAY JANUARY 18TH 1916
JEAN CAME BACK TODAY AND WE SAT UP TILL 1AM-MAKING THINGS RIGHT.THANK GOODNESS !DORIS'S COLD ABOUT THE SAME.HAVEN'T BEEN OUT ALL DAY.NO LETTERS.(THE REST OF THIS ENTRY APPEARS TO BE IN GERMAN OR ANOTHER LANGUAGE)
WEDNESDAY JANUARY 19TH 1916
GOT UP FAIRLY EARLY THIS MORNING. STAYED IN ALL DAY AM NOW(12) ENJOYING A SMOKE AND GOODNESS I DO ENJOY IT. HAD A LETTER FROM MAY AND ONE FROM MR WIDDISON THIS MORNING. PLAYED KUHN KHANTONIGHT---------------REST OF ENTRY ILLEGIBLE--------------
THURSDAY JANUARY 20TH 1916
ON TS PAGE IS A NEWSPAPER CUTTING:
SHEFFIELD NEWS UNIQUE OCCURRENCE
SHEFFIELD COLONEL AND HIS SON HONOURED
THE RECOGNITION BY SIR JOHN FRENCH OF THE VALUABLE SERVICES RENDERED BY COLONEL CHARLES CLIFFORD OF SHEFFIELD AND HIS SON, CAPTAIN(NOW TEMPORARY MAJOR) ERIC CLIFFORD, HAS GIVEN MUCH PLEASURE TO THEIR FRIENDS IN SHEFFIELD.AT A MEETING OF THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE OF THE CITY OF SHEFFIELD CONSERVATIVE AND UNIONIST ASSOCIATION, THE FOLLOWING RESOLUTION WAS CARRIED ON THE MOTION OF SIR GEORGE FRANKLIN, SECONDED BY ALDERMAN H.P.MARSH. ''THAT WE HEARTLY CONGRATULATE COLONEL CLIFFORD UPON THE HONOURS CONFERRED UPON HIM AND HIS SON CAPTAIN CLIFFORD, BOTH BEING RECIEPIANTS OF THE NEW YEAR MILITARY HONOURS BY BEING MENTIONED IN DISPATCHES. THIS IS A UNIQUE OCCURRENCE, AND WE TRUST THAT BOTH WILL SAFELY RETURN AND LONG ENJOY THE DISTINCTIONS CONFERRED UPON THEM.A COPY OF THE RESOLUTION HAS BEEN FORWARDED TO COLONEL CLIFFORD''
ALSO ON THE SAME PAGE IS A NEWSPAPER CUT-OUT OF A PHOTO.LEUITENANT H.STUART LAMBERT, SON OF MR E.LAMBERT, MAGISTRATES CLERK OF BRIDLINGTON, WHO WAS KILLED IN ACTION IN FRANCE.
THEN-GOT UP FAIRLY EARLY. MRS C. WENT AWAY FOR DAY AND MR C. AND JEAN WENT SHOOTING .HAD LETTERS FROM M. AND -----? PERCY EVERETT MUST HAVE AN OPERATION.WHEN JEAN CAME BACK SHE AND I WENT FOR A WALK. TONIGHT HAS BEEN QUIET. I HAVE WRITTEN TO JACK TODAY.------ILLEGIBLE--------THE WHOLE LOT OF FOLKS HERE ARE AWFULLY DECENT TO ME
FRIDAY 21ST JANUARY 1916
CAME HOME TODAY.FATHER BROUGHT A FRIEND TO SPEND THE EVENING.NOTHING MUCH HAPPENED.-------------ILLEGIBLE--------------
SATURDAY 22ND JANUARY 1916
WOR KED ALL MORNING METIVY IN TOWN HAD TEA WITH HER AND MISS WINIE BROMPTON SHE TOLD US THAT BERNARD GOES TO PONTEFRACT NEXT WEEK. TWEEDY WANTED ME TO GO TO THE PICTURES WITH HIM. WENT TO CONVENT AND GOT ALL PARTICULARS ABOUT HIGHER LOCAL---------ILEGIBLE---------
SUNDAY 23RD JANUARY 1916
GOT UP A BIT EARLIER FIDDLED ABOUT ALL MORNING AND AFTERNOON. WENT TO SHIREGREEN AFTER TEA THEY HAVE STILL NOT HEARD FROM JACK. MOTHER AND FATHER WENT TO STERNDALE.LATER MR AND MRS MOORE AND DOWNING IBBOTSON CAME.
MONDAY 24TH JANUARY 1916
CAME ONTO WOODSETTS BY TRAIN. BEEN FOR A WALK THIS AFTERNOON-DOWN THE DALE AND OVER GOLF LINKS. RIPPING WEATHER. MRS CROOKES IS IN EDINBURGH.
TUESDAY 25TH JANUARY 1916
MRS CROOKES WENT AWAY THIS MORNING UNTIL TOMORROW. JEAN WENT TO DENTIST AND I MET HER.WE STAYED UP UNTIL 4AM HAD A LOVELY TIME, IN SPITE OF THE FACT THAT MY HEAD WAS FEELING POSITIVELY AWFUL ALL DAY.RECIEVED A LETTER FROM JACK, THE DARLING!!! THANK GOODNESS HE HAS GOT SAFELY AWAY FROM LUVLA. HAD GRAMOPHONE GOING TONIGHT.
WEDNESDAY26TH JANUARY 1916
I HAD A LETTER FROM KNAPMAN TODAY. LOVELY WEATHER. JEAN,DORIS AND I PLAYED HIDE AND SEEK IN THE GARDEN THIS AFTERNOON. MRS CROOKES CAME HOME IN TIME FOR TEA. HAD ALSO A POSTCARD FROM MR WIDDISON SAYING THEY HAD HEARD FROM JACK. I DO WISH I COULD SEE HIM AM REALLY FEELING ROTTEN.
THURSDAY 27TH JANUARY 1916
NO LETTER FROM HOME AGAIN. PLAYED HIDE AND SEEK IN THE GARDEN, FELL DOWN AND HURT MY ANKLE. TONIGHT HAVE EATEN FISH AND FEEL AT PRESENT 'HITCHY KODY '(?) JEAN HAS GIVEN ME A FOX TOOTH FOR A TIEPIN ALSO HAVE GOT SOME RIPPING WALLFLOWERS IN MY ROOM.
FRIDAY 28TH JANUARY 1916
CAME HOME TONIGHT. FOUND FOUR LETTERS FROM JACK AWAITING ME. RIPPING LETTERS THEY WERE TOO. I SUPPOSE WHEN ---IF EVER---HE COMES BACK, WE SHALL BE ENGAGED. WENT UP TO SHIREGREEN TONIGHT NEW SONG-'LAD 'O' MINE'. WROTE TO JEAN TONIGHT.
TO BE CONTINUED...........
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