At work in the morning. Showery day. Went down town and got razor and papers. Willie came up at night, and walked round town. Didn’t go anywhere special. Wet unsettled night.
Tag Archives: Work
31 March 1915; Wednesday
Very busy at work. Finished about 6 o’clock. Saw aeroplane. Practiced shorthand1 a bit. Played the piano. Read a bit Pelman2.
See Pitman’s Shorthand. ↩
Pelman: See note on 6 January 1914. ↩
30 March 1915; Tuesday
At work as usual. Very busy and finished late. Went to choir practice. Practice in the chapel. Only Willie Whittaker and me there to sing bass. Came up with Blaikie to the shop corner.
29 March 1915; Monday
At work as usual. Snow in the morning but got out fine. Did a bit shorthand1 at night from Macauley’s Essays2 and played a bit.
Received news of the Falaba3 disaster also the Aquila.
See Pitman’s Shorthand. ↩
Thomas Babington Macauley, now best known for his poem Horatius (“Then out spake brave Horatius, The Captain of the Gate:…”) whose essays, originally published in the Edinburgh Review, were collected as Critical and Historical Essays in 1843. See also Arthur Linfoot’s Library. ↩
26 March 1915; Friday
At work as usual. At recruiting office at night and arranged to join the Army Medical when called upon. Probably it will be about 6 weeks’ time. Charlie and I carried some deeds† down to Rowes’ last thing and called at Gordon’s for some chocolate. Stormy night.
25 March 1915; Thursday
At work as usual. Went to recruiting office at night arranged to call in tomorrow night to see the doctor. They say I can arrange to go to Haltry† on Easter Tuesday. Went down and saw Mrs Furley about Luke who was not at Sunday School last Sunday.
U29 announced as sunk1. Father at the Court and the case settled.
U29 was sunk with all hands on 18 March 1915 (i.e. a week earlier than this diary entry) in the Pentland Firth after being rammed by HMS Dreadnought, the only German submarine known to have been sunk in this way. ↩
24 March 1915; Wednesday
At work as usual. Went to recruiting office at night with Joe, but met the man coming out and the office was closed. Went straight down to Mrs Wiseman’s with Joe.
Russians reduce Przemyzl1 after about 7 months siege. Father at Heath’s Office.
23 March 1915; Tuesday
Busy at work. Got book well up to date. Didn’t go to work at night. Went down to recruiting office, but was too late.
22 March 1915; Monday
At work as usual. Typed summary. Got work well up to date. Some wounded in at night and Joe and I went down to see them. Alice Carr in at night. Did pretty well in the shop. A good deal better.
20 March 1915; Saturday
At work as usual1. Finished about 1.30. Came up with the chemist’s assistant. Went into town in the afternoon, for my papers and called at John Wilson’s and got a file and a cord† from the shop. Went down to Dr. Blair’s and got a bottle. Had walk out to Grangetown2 at night with Willie. Felt a bit better but still off form.
Saturday morning working was of course normal – as it remained until the 1960s. ↩
Grangetown is a suburb of Sunderland two miles south of Sunderland City Centre. ↩