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Showing posts with label Victoriana. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Victoriana. Show all posts
Wednesday, October 14, 2015

1846 Diary of J.W.Penfold—inventor of the octagonal pillar box

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Any Jotters who in their childhood tuned into Danger Mouse , which is about to be revived, must know that his sidekick was called Penfold. ...
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Tuesday, April 28, 2015

A Ship's Library - Kinfauns Castle

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Kinfauns Castle ( Ship's Nostalgia site ) Found - a list of the entire inventory of a ship's library - Donald Currie & Co...
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Wednesday, February 11, 2015

Life and death in a Georgian workhouse ( A real life Mr. Bumble)

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Here is a letter picked up years ago in London among a box of ephemera. It is undated, though the watermark is 1821. It is addressed to ‘M...
Friday, November 21, 2014

Boozing with the Victorian Society in Crouch End, Hornsey and Harringay

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Found in a box of books is this photocopy of a typewritten guide to a ‘pub crawl’ (walk no 41) of various late Victorian ‘gin palaces’ in No...
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Wednesday, August 13, 2014

A lost Rossetti letter

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Found in the front of an 1866 first edition of Swinburne's   Poems and Ballads (Moxon) this cutting from a catalogue from about 1920. Th...
Wednesday, January 8, 2014

The Daily Mail --The Busy Man’s Daily Journal

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Sent in by a loyal jotter and keen accumulator of ephemera and near nonsense. The clue here is that it is the first issue. Surely stuff get...
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