Got up about 7.30 and had a bath. At chapel and School as usual. Arthur Mullens still off and I had his class. Willie Whittaker not out all day. Mr Chadwick preaching. Charlie sang at night and did very well. Had usual walks. Fine day. Henry to tea.
Category Archives: 1914
18 April 1914; Saturday
Got up about 7.30. Glorious morning. A bit off form. Finished about 2 o’clock. Cleaned yard. Mended bicycle. Played a bit. Went up town after tea with Willie and Charlie and walked over to Roker. Fine day, and night.
17 April 1914; Friday
Got up about 7.45. A bit off form. Finished about 6 o’clock. Walked up Durham Road with Charlie. Got first 5 copies of the “History of the Nations” published by Hutchinson. They are very good. Commenced to take in “History of the Nations.”1 Went to bed about 11 o’clock. Received Pelman2 paper number 11.
16 April 1914; Thursday
Got up at 7 o’clock. Grand morning. Not very well. Easy1 day. Finished at 5 o’clock. Played the piano a bit. Read. Called at the dock at dinner time for father’s compensation money. Pupil came at night and I stayed with him. Wrote to Ernie and posted it last thing. Went to bed about 11 o’clock. Felt a bit dizzy.
Illustrating the difficulties of transcription: ALL’s usual entry was “Busy day”, but the “b” and “s” strokes sometimes, as here, run together into almost a single arc: “s”. Elsewhere only a dot for the final vowel, after the stroke, is marked, though there should also be a dot before the stroke, for the first vowel; here, exceptionally, a first vowel is clearly marked, and for this reason, together with the ambiguity of the curved stroke and the fairly early finish at 5.00, I have transcribed the word as “easy”. (DL) ↩
15 April 1914; Wednesday
Got up at 6.30. Grand morning. Finished about 5.30. Played a bit. Went down to chapel with Joe and Charlie. Completed Pelman1 set. Charlie and Dora’s baby christened Ernest James. Another christening there. The mother had died and the man fainted in the service. Went to bed about 11 o’clock.
14 April 1914; Tuesday
At work in the morning. Finished about 1 o’clock. Read and played. Walked up town to meet Charlie and missed him. Went to the pictures at the Victoria Hall1 at night. Very good pictures. At the Bee Pictures. Went to bed soon. Got a bit work squared up.
Victoria Hall: see note on 10 January. ↩
13 April 1914; Easter Monday
Got up about 8 o’clock. Went up and met the two Willies1 with Charlie. Car to Sea Lane. Walked to Marsden. Willie took some photos2. Had lunch at Marsden and walked on up the banks to Shields3. Came back in the train. Heard 9 bands at South Shields. A drunken man in the train. Got back shortly before 3. I read a good bit and played. Went out again at night. Walked to Roker.
At Marsden & Shields.
“The two Willies”: Presumed to be Willie Marshall and Willie Whittaker, depending on which Willie “took some photos”. ↩
The photograph accompanying this entry appears to be one of those taken by “Willie” on that day (presumed to be Willie Marshall and explaining his absence from the scene). The cliffs in the background would be recognisable by anyone familiar with Marsden today. The photograph was probably taken somewhere near point (A) on the map. See also Sunderland map. ↩
Shields: South Shields (B on the map), a coastal town on the south side of the mouth of the River Tyne, about 3 miles up the cost from Marsden. There is also a North Shields on the north side. ↩
12 April 1914; Easter Sunday
Got up at 7 o’clock. Went to the sacrament at 8 o’clock. Fair turn-out. Pretty good services all day. Mr Shawcross preached at night. Willie Marshall, Willie Whittaker, Charlie and I, with Willie Peake, Mr Whittaker, and Tom Hugill, were at the station at night seeing Mr Shawcross.
11 April 1914; Saturday
Got up about 8. Rather late for work. Finished about 1.30. Cleared up a few things at home. Went to Roker at night with Willie. Ordered Hutchinsons’ “History of the World”1 at the branch. Had short walk with Father in the evening.
Correct name “History of the Nations” used in 17 April entry; quite a well-illustrated, glossy production, apparently published in weekly or monthly numbers, subsequently bound in 4 volumes and retained by ALL. ↩
10 April 1914; Good Friday
Got up about 9 and had a bath. Went to Roker with Charlie. Very windy. Went to the chapel in the afternoon. Mr Shawcross preached in the afternoon and spoke again at the evening meeting. Stayed to the tea. A pretty good turn-out. Stayed to evening service, and afterwards at supper. Morley spoke to Mr Shawcross. Charlie sang at night and Mr Newrick spoke well of it.
Missionary Anniversary Services.
Commenced to read “Anna Karenina.”1
See also: Anna Karenina and Arthur Linfoot’s Library ↩