The North Bucks Record of 1910
Bound collection of issues of the North Bucks Record – July 1910 to December 1910. This weekly newspaper was established on 26 October 1907 and claims that it is “non-political and unsectarian”. It was printed and published by Edward Williams Walford at the “Walford Press”, 29 High Street, Fenny Stratford. Highlights include the formation of the local Women’s Liberal Association (July), the first annual Bletchley & Fenny Stratford Horticultural Society Show where more than 18 thousand people attended (August), the continuous supply of water (September), the new Gas Works opened (November), the General Election campaigning and result (December).
Extent
209 scans
Contributor
Colin Mansell Brown
Reference number
CBR/001
Records in this Group
The Editor’s Table – a letter about Socialism
Long report of the meeting of the Fenny Stratford Urban District Council
Adverts, including for an Honest Repectable LAD willing to learn BUTCHERY and make himself generally useful.
Announcements of various meetings: Temperance Association, Unionist Association, Salvation Army, the Co-operative Society, and a Dramatic Entertainment in aid of the RSPCA.
The Opening of the New Gas Works at Fenny Stratford
The Fenny Poppers were fired
Football Notes and Notions. The Wesleyan Mission continued in Woughton and Simpson.
What’s Wrong with Fenny? A presentation and discussion at the Mutual Improvement Society
First meeting of the local branch of the National British Women’s Temperance Association. Meetings of the Liberal Association, and about Temperance in the Free Churches.
Announcements of various meetings: Men’s Brotherhood, Whist Drive and Dance, Choir Anniversary, Bioscope Entertainment, etc.
Report of the Fenny Stratford School Managers including Salaries,Heating, Gas Lamp Bracket, Gardening, Religious Instruction, Cookery, and Christmas Holidays
Browne Willis Commemoration
Football Notes and Notions
Charitable Relief – a lecture by Rev Firminger
Political Fight – candidates for the MP for North Bucks, as Parliament is dissolved after only ten months. Sir Harry Verney is the Liberal candidate
24th Anniversary of the local Salvation Army
A Premature Birth + Young Man and a Doctor Arrested. A failed attempt to procure a miscarriage on an unmarried woman.
Fenny Stratford Petty Sessions: a 12 year old boy had to pay 4s costs for discharging fireworks on the highway. A Norfolk man was fined £1 (plus £1 12s costs) for two offences of travelling on the railway without paying his fares. A mother who failed to notify her daughter’s scarlet fever was let off. ...
Footbal Notes and Notions. Letters about the “Housing and Town Planning Act” and Unemployment
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