At work as usual. Busy all day. Went up to Athlete hall at night for drill. I took a turn at drilling the squad. Read a bit. Played a bit.
Category Archives: January 1915
10 January 1915; Sunday
At chapel and Sunday School as usual. Dry sermons. Bad weather and didn’t get usual walks. Managed pretty well at School. Wrote a bit. Nothing startling from the war. Hilda got bit better and we were in the front room.
9 January 1915; Saturday
8 January 1915; Friday
At work as usual. Busy all day. Didn’t get sales-book written up. Read a bit. Went round with Joe last thing. Hilda & Marmie still in bed.
7 January 1915; Thursday
Got up shortly before 8 o’clock. Ernie went back to St. Andrew’s, Charlie to Seaham. Mr Scott discovered a mistake of thousand pounds in my total and in the sales-book. Received account of Lord Kitchener’s speech in the House of Lords and it was satisfactory. Marmie & Hilda both in bed all day. My cold a lot better. Charlie arrived at night from Seaham & said he was finished there. Dr. Scott down to Hilda.
6 January 1915; Wednesday
At work as usual. Received news of Defeat of Turkish Army in Caucasus1. Went down to Girls’ Guild Social at night. A large company and a lot of strangers. Pretty decent night. Mr and Mrs Flood and the Waggotts well represented. Left at 11 o’clock and came round with Gertie. Charlie called in but didn’t stay and slept at home.
See also: Wikipedia; Caucasus Campaign ↩
5 January 1915; Tuesday
Charlie went to Seaham first thing to lodge there. Ernie and Hilda should have gone home but didn’t as Hilda is unwell. She got Dr Scott to come and see her. At work as usual. Finished about 5.30. Played ping pong most of the night and had short walk round the town last thing. Charlie slept at Seaham Harbour for first time.
4 January 1915; Monday
At work again. Felt pretty bad with cold. Father got me a bottle at night at Blackett’s1. Went to Willie Peake’s Party at night. A fair company and we enjoyed ourselves at night. Knocked off about 1 o’clock. I set Poppy Hugill down home. Got to bed about 2 o’clock. A report about some German ships being out of the canal2.
“Blackett’s” (if correctly transcribed): department store in central Sunderland. ↩
“Canal” would be the Kiel Canal (Kaiser-Wilhelm-Kanal until 1948), built 1887 – 1895 from Kiel in the Baltic to Brunsbüttel at the mouth of the Elbe (98km), to facilitate commercial traffic but also for German warships to avoid the unsafe and potentially opposed passage round Denmark, thus facilitating operations in both the Baltic and North Seas. It is said now to be the busiest artificial waterway in the world. ↩
3 January 1915; Sunday
Missed chapel in the morning. Got a cold. At Sunday School and chapel at night and stayed to covenant service. A long list of people made church members. Wet day and no walks. Sang and played a bit. Hilda went to Wilf’s and had a cold so stayed there. Reported 200 saved from Formidable1.
2 January 1915; Saturday
Got up at 7 o’clock and walked with Charlie to Seaham Harbour first thing. Had rain in torrents and we were wet through. I got the 9.20 train back and was home about 9.45. Played ping pong. Went up town in the afternoon with Father. Bought new cap for 3/6. Went to Concert in Victoria Hall1 and heard Radford & Miss Edith Evans, Miss Bland, Mr John Bull and Mr Arthur E Gover2 on the organ. A fine snow. Willie back and Edie, Jack and Hilda3 to supper at Marmie’s. Charlie back at night. Finished the party at about 12.30.
Victoria Hall: See 10 January 1914. ↩
The artistes’ names, except the two in longhand, are fairly speculative transcriptions. ↩