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Archive page for Tuesday, 13 June 2006

 Tu, Jun 13, 2006
All Round The Wrekin (or Mount Gilbert as it was known)
Here's a little story I've received by email. Just a little story. No need for any more introspection than that.

I have told you a few facts about my Father's side of the family but most of the historical records to do with the Wrekin area that I possess are from my Mother's side of the family. A well established local family. My Mother's father, Alfred, was a director of the Coalbrookdale Company and I have quite a few handwritten records from his diary's. His one brother, Joe, was Works Manager at the Sinclair Iron Company (now Glynwed Foundries) and another brother, Harry, worked at the Horsehay Company. I have attached a letter about my Grandfathers death to his brother Harry in 1929 which might interest you. Going further back, one of my ancestors was a vicar or something suchlike in Wellington (W M Davies)and he wrote lots of books, all with a quill pen in beautiful script. I have lots of these books and records, and it is these that I often sit and wonder about. Like I said earlier, what were the people who wrote them like, were they written at the living room table by candlelight and so on.
It's the illustrations that get me. Beautiful calligraphy.
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# Posted by Steve Hooker at 13/6/06; 10:23:32 PM to the Blogging news dept.
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All Round The Wrekin (or Mount Gilbert as it was known)



Few updates today
Lots to do. Places to go. Trouble to cause. A demo to do in Tameside, near Manchestrer. Off to Birmingham for the afternoon to sort out the Government Office's intranet, which uses the same technology as we do here.

In the meantime, here, I've to get Pudsey's theme sorted, now that their prospectus has arrived via snail mail.

And my veggie cook in Australia wants a better way of delving into the archives.

So not much in the way of updates today.
# Posted by Steve Hooker at 13/6/06; 8:27:03 AM to the Walsall Schools business dept.
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Few updates today



Mumbo jumbo
BBC : Churches push for school worship: "Secondary schools are failing to hold daily acts of collective worship and so limiting pupils' "spiritual and moral" development, Church leaders warn."

# Posted by Steve Hooker at 13/6/06; 8:13:03 AM to the Education news dept.
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Mumbo jumbo