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The Rise and Fall of Hall of Crosshall
BEDFORDSHIRE LOCAL HISTORY ASSOCIATION HISTORY IN BEDFORDSHIRE VOLUME 8, NO 1, W INTER 2017–2018 www.bedfordshire -lha.org.uk Contents Notes and news page 2 Did the Willington peasants revolt? page 2 The Bedfordshire Bibliography page 2 A Place in the Country page 2 An American at Wrest: Wrest Park in Edwardian Times: WREST HISTORY VOLUNTEERS page 3 The Rise and Fall of Hall of Crosshall: H U G H G A U L T page 9 Luton Red Cross Band: T E D M A R T I N page 13 Publication received: Bedfordshire Local History Magazine page 16 History in Bedfordshire is published by the BEDFORDSHIRE LOCAL HISTORY ASSO CIATION www.bedfordshire-lha.org.uk For HIB: Editor: Ted Martin, 2A The Leys, Langford, Beds SG18 9RS Telephone: 01462 701096. E-mail: [email protected] For BLHA: Secretary: Clive Makin, 32 Grange Road, Barton Le Clay, Bedford MK45 4RE Telephone: 01582 655785 Contributions are very welcome and needed: please telephone or e-mail the Editor before sending any material. All rights reserved. Copyright © 2017–2018 Bedfordshire Local History Association and contributors ISSN 0968–9761 1 Notes and news Did the Willington peasants revolt? It’s all a bit of a mystery. Did the Peasants’ Revolt of 1381 have any effect in Bedfordshire? Joyce Godber wrote that ‘the Bedfordshire villages were surprisingly quiet’ but for one reason or another there appears to be only one surviving manor court roll for 1381 held by Bedfordshire Archives and Records Service. Historians tell us that during the ‘Revolt’ many manorial documents were destroyed and the Willington records begin the next year, in 1382 with a series of bailiff’s accounts and in 1394 with the manor court rolls. -
Consressioaal Flctes J
COUNTING UNCLE SAM'S CASH Iron County Register UMBASSADOR REID 4 EXECUTED IH ONE DJf Consressioaal flctes OTS MISSOURI By Ell D. Ake. !Ss7 W $ wiw-.- -i - ms I 0 W OREGON EXECUTIVE REFUSES IRON10N, MISSOURI DIES IN ENGLAND REPRIEVE AS A LESSON. ... Repeal of tbs last of the civil war Four Churches Consolidate. - Presbyterians, MetW Jamaica's torrential rains Aught to Pov. West Gives His State "Bloody "aisability" statutes was indorsed by Alma. The of- Baptists - and members of thai mollify the ginger. Friday" Because Voters Refused , the senate when aa amendment diets. r church of Alma decided to Abolish Capital Punishment - fered by Senator Johnston of Alabama Christian to BRONCHIAL ATTACK COMPLI- congregation support Couth been defined as one to the omnibus claims, bl" wa adapt- aaite in one aid has Just CATED BY ASTHMA FATAL church,. Separately darned blunder after another. Salem, Oregon. Frank Garrison ed. a aonsectarian TO U. 3. DIPLOMAT. and Noble Faulder, condemned The Lever agricultural caseation neither of the four was strong enooghj - Prophets are 'bum leaders. It yon murderers, were hanged in the peni- bill, passed by the house, was to keep up an institution. All the d- be represented w dont' believe it, look at Turkey. tentiary simultaneously at 11:28 ordered favorably reported from the nominatioBS will o'clock. Immediate preparations were senate 'committee on agriculture, and the governing board, aad ail sectarian) DISEASE WEAKENED HEART Members A Parisian hotel will be opened made to execute two other murderers, probably will be presented to the sea teachings will be avoided. -
1908-06-23, [P 6]
Tit BCE. THE HATTIESBURG NEWS p. I WANT I PEOPLE TALKED ABOUT I REGAL WEDDING OF NOTE IN HISTORIC CHAPEL TODAY - to buy for CORNERED CORN MARKET Hearst News Service. bassador to Great Britain and editor James A. Patten, who distinguished himself London, June 23.—Beautiful and his and owner of the New York Tribune " on the Chicago grain market a few years ago toric Chapel Royal, in St. James' Pal All London society was present at the cash 10 by a corner in oats, has just completed a cor * ner in corn In which he is said to have cleared ace, before whose sanctuary Victoria reception, and the brilliant uniforms Ml all the way from $1,000,000 to $2,000,000. was wedded to Prince Albert and of the ambassadors and ministers of In his former effort in the cornering line, which ever since has been held sacred alf nations rendered the scene a highly Patten bought In all the oats that were offered to royal nuptials, was today the scene spectacular one. good n e= m at an average price of 38 cents, and at one time of the marriage of Miss Jean Retd, Aside from his desire to do honor to he had 'as much as 10,000,000 bushels on hand. daughter of the American Ambassador, the daughter of the American ambassa When the trade required oats for actual use, and John Hubert Ward. King Ed dor, King Edward contributed the FOR fj Patten would be quite willing to dispose of some ward witnessed the ceremony and was prestige of his presence and the sol gro houses of hiB holdings at 44 cents; and several million JL bushels changed hands at that figure. -
Robert Gray's Book
1 TO MY ANCESTORS I see you toiling down the tedious years, You bearded, bent and gaunt old pioneers, Sowing and reaping, sowing once again, In patience for an unborn race of men. I see you struggling in the wilderness, Where failure meant starvation and success A cabin in a clearing, rough-hewn, rude, Garments of homespun and a humblesy food. Tradition scarely tells me whence you came; I only know a few of you by name; I only know you lived and multiplied, Quite profligate in progency, and died. Yet in my heart, I know that most of you Were strong and steadfast, and that one or two, At least had weaknesses that still may be Traced in the trend of atavistic me. One I am sure, was blessed with wit (I am thankful he transmitted some of it) That helped him dodge Dame Trouble’s swiftest dart, And meet misfortune with merry heart. One was a rather worthless wight, I fear, Who when the bluebird spring was near, Forsook his plow—a shiftless sluggard one— And roamed the woods alone with rod and gun. And one a gentle dreamer was, I know, Who lured by shadows, let the substance go. “twas he who dared the raging western sea,”— I’m glad he handed down his dreams to me. Unknown “I ever had a pleasure in obtaining any little anecdotes of my ancestors.” —Benjamin Franklin. “He only deserves to be remembered by posterity who treasures up and preserves the history of his ancestors.”—Edmund Burke. 2 PREFACE In the spring of 1963 I began to think of my ancestors. -
1965 Coinage Act & the Pilgrims Society
1965 COINAGE ACT & THE PILGRIMS SOCIETY Presented October 2017 by Charles Savoie “WE ARE VERY PARTICULAR AS TO WHO WE LET IN” 2003 short run book, “The Pilgrims of the United States,” 1919 document, page 37. Some members of Congress were “let in” due to voting against silver coinage in 1965! “Sinclair Weeks, president of the Silver Users Association, said in a speech prepared for the press conference that the U.S. should eliminate the use of silver in its coins as soon as possible.”---Wall Street Journal, February 1, 1965, page 7. “Saving silver coins is an amusing way of exerting one’s independence of Big Brother, who officially frowns on such caprices.”---William Rickenbacker in “Death of the Dollar” (Arlington House, New Rochelle, New York, 1968, page 171). Some of you were around when the new cupronickel clad coins arrived on the scene in 1965. I remember that arrival as I was at a (which do you prefer) laundromat or washateria with an adult neighbor who thought the new orange-edge coins were cool, trendy and stylish. I however reacted with horror. I used to help my older brother count silver coins he received in payment for his newspaper route and that’s what I was used to seeing---silver dimes, halves and quarters. I fished out a mint error cent out of his vinyl zipper bank bag and sold it to a dealer for $5.00. The laundromat scene made me freak out, and I was barely 11. Just about everyone reacts to social change with alarm; things which we look back on and realize there was no need to get flustered because harm wasn’t done.