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10 June 1914; Wednesday

June 1914, , , , ,

Got up about 7.40. Tried a few of Charlie’s things through first thing. Not much to do at work. Got off a bit extra to go to the wedding. Merely saw them married and went back to work. All the rest of the family on the job. Father gave Lily away. Charlie sang a song. Little bit stiffness between the two families.

Willie Marshall married to Lily Linfoot1.

Mr Chadwick officiated. They went to Alnwick for their honeymoon.
Went down to chapel at night and hurried to finish off putting up the platform. Fine day.

  1. See note on 8 May. ↩

9 June 1914; Tuesday

June 1914

Got up about 7.40. Wet morning. Foot a lot better. Directors’ meeting. I had no letters. Finished early. Went down to practice. Played organ for good part of it. Stormy wet day. Carried some plants down from Pickell’s† to the chapel last thing for Willie’s wedding.

9 May 1914; Saturday

May 1914, ,

Got up about 8 o’clock. Wet morning. Busy all morning. Finished about 2 o’clock. Played the piano and shaved. Went across to Miss Keedy’s with Charlie and Charlie tried two songs over. Bought new tie and pair of new suspenders1. Went to town with Joe again at night. Went into Dale’s and Joe bought a stick. Lily came back home with Willie. They arrived about 9 o’clock. She is to stay at Whittakers’ until they are married.

  1. Suspenders were to keep socks up – not braces for trousers, as in the American usage. ↩

6 May 1914; Wednesday

May 1914

Got up about 7.20. Received copy of the prospectus for the Heinrich Becker piano-­playing system1. Fine morning. Busy all day. Played the piano and read a bit at night.

  1. A Heinrich Becker published in 1914 “Mind, Muscle & Keyboard”, his system of piano technique and “facile” sight­‐reading. ↩

5 May 1914; Tuesday

May 1914, ,

Got up about 7.45. Alf back again. Busy all day. Played the piano at night and went down to the class meeting and played there. Went into choir practice later. First anniversary practice. Dick spoke at the class meeting and Crabtree led. Charlie in bed all day. Dr Hickey called to see him. Dr Hickey told us his opinion on MacFadden and *.

16 April 1914; Thursday

April 1914, ,

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.

  1. 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)  ↩

8 April 1914; Wednesday

April 1914, ,

Busy all day. Finished in good time at night. Tried a bit voice production and then went over to North Bridge Street Church. Crucifixion1 at North Bridge Street. Mr Oliver met the Durham Cathedral tenor. Charlie Ramsey bass. Tom Leydon did the odd men’s parts. It went off all right. Only a few there. Father a little better, but rather depressed.

  1. Stainer’s Crucifixion: see note on 5 April. ↩

5 April 1914; Sunday

April 1914, , ,

At chapel and School as usual. Mrs Fred1 asked me to take Arthur Mullens’ children’s service for him as he was unwell. I had his class too. Rather stormy day. Didn’t get any walks. Charlie at Williamson Terrace hearing Pike singing Stainer’s Crucifixion2.

  1. Mrs Fred: presumably Mrs Waggott, wife of Mr Fred Waggott, butcher. ↩

  2. “[The] Crucifixion”: oratorio for tenor & bass soloists, composed 1887 by Sir John Stainer (1840 – 1901), professor of music at Oxford University 1889. ↩