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The Common Room / Re: The Diary of Nathaniel Bryceson (Part 9 - Final)
« on: Saturday 22 January 11 11:58 GMT (UK)  »
As a postscript, I took this photo the other day of the Strand Union Workhouse, the place where Granny Sheppard died.    Today it is all over the papers as it is to be pulled down and various people think it was the prototype of the workhouse in Oliver Twist as Dickens lived at No. 22 Cleveland Street.    There is a campaign to save it.
Not a very good photo - too early in the morning.

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The Common Room / Re: The Diary of Nathaniel Bryceson (Part 9 - Final)
« on: Tuesday 21 December 10 16:03 GMT (UK)  »
I thought you might like to see these.
Left to right: Ruskie, Adrian, Judith, Alison & the bloke who looks like a tramp on the right is yours truly.   Photo by courtesy of Mrs Mongibello
Also one with Ruskie & THE DIARY

Happy Christmas and a prosperous New Year to you all

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The Common Room / Re: The Diary of Nathaniel Bryceson (Part 9 - Final)
« on: Wednesday 15 December 10 20:51 GMT (UK)  »
You will all be pleased to know that Ruskie visited the Archives today and had a chance to look at the diary.   Later we walked up to Richmond Buildings.

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The Common Room / Re: The Diary of Nathaniel Bryceson (Part 9 - Final)
« on: Wednesday 15 December 10 08:41 GMT (UK)  »
Ruskie:   Let me know when you are going to visit the Archives.   I will be there all day today (Wed 15th).    If you do visit this afternoon there is a bit of a party going on so please gatecrash!  The only time I cannot be there is Thursday morning.
Looking forward to meeting you.

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The Common Room / Re: The Diary of Nathaniel Bryceson (Part 9 - Final)
« on: Sunday 12 December 10 14:51 GMT (UK)  »
This is from the WA website.

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Discover the cause of the Macclesfield Bridge disaster

Marvel at the exploits of Victorian variety performers  in the West End

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Make a date for 1 January 2011 and join us for this wonderful journey through Westminster's history.

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The Common Room / Re: The Diary of Nathaniel Bryceson (Part 9 - Final)
« on: Friday 10 December 10 14:01 GMT (UK)  »
I think I have found most of the stuff and I am in process of putting it into a family history program so the Archivists can use it.

Look out on the Westminster Archives website as they have something planned for the new year.   It seems to be something along the lines of what happened in Westminster on each day of the year in history.   More when I hear from them.   They have some other diaries but from what I have seen of them they are not as interesing as NB's.

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The Common Room / Re: The Diary of Nathaniel Bryceson (Part 9 - Final)
« on: Thursday 09 December 10 16:16 GMT (UK)  »
Quote from: Ruskie on Wednesday 08 December 10 22:25 GMT (UK)
It would be wonderful if all the threads could stay in the "Common Room" so they can easily be found by descendants or Nathaniel Bryceson fans. Some of our research might even be useful for Westminster Archives when they put the book together. We did do a lot of digging behind the scenes and it would be a shame if it was lost.

So please ... rootschat powers that be ... will you consider moving Part 8 back to the Common Room so the threads can stay together?
This is the reason I asked the question.   I want to make sure all the research is available if & when the book is prepared.   I am currently trying to put it into a usable form as I am sure that none of the Archives staff will have the time to do it.

Incidentally do not expect too much of the last couple of days. I seem to remember that they were rather mixed up with the original writing in the book.

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The Common Room / Re: The Diary of Nathaniel Bryceson (Part 9 - Final)
« on: Tuesday 07 December 10 15:55 GMT (UK)  »
Thanks indeed Ruskie.   If the diary does get published I will try to make sure that they acknowledge the work of this group.
One question- will this whole thread be left up for a while?   Or will they take it down fairly soon.

Back to the diary.... I think Nat is using the word "But" as we would use only.  "I was only in as a witness"

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The Common Room / Re: The Diary of Nathaniel Bryceson (Part 8)
« on: Sunday 05 December 10 11:06 GMT (UK)  »
I cannot remember whether anyone noticed this one:-
1861 RG9/1059/45/P4  10 Rathbone St, Plaistow, West Ham, Essex
Ann Fox; Head; Widow; 60; Bible Woman; born Middlesex, Strand.

In the 1851 census she seems to say her birthplace is Green St which could be the street which is now Irving St, Leicester Sq & thus in Strand district.

Perhaps she "got religion" and worked among the dockers.

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