Shorthand - can you help decipher?

[Finley 1]

my pitmans  stays at   dear sir, with reference to yours truly and then I gave up... so cant help sorry..
But I am going to send it to my daughter who may recognise it... we shall see.

xin

[carol8353]

Hello Greensleeves -
... sincere thanks for having done your best to decipher this notebook extract. The system of shorthand may even be one my ancestor picked up in his days at commercial college in Hamburg - who knows? It may well have to remain a mystery - but that's genealogy I suppose.
With best wishes from rainy Cornwall
Ian

Could the problem be that it's written in German if it was learnt in Hamburg?

Maybe Berlin Bob can help.........not by reading the shorthand  but by suggesting somone who can....just a thought 

Carol

[Greensleeves]

Ooooh, Carol, hadn't thought of that.  Must immediately dust off O level German and see if that will make sense.....

[carol8353]

Good luck  if it's anything like my O level French- it won't.

Make sense that is 

Carol

[Subaru]

I passed my 60 wpm Pitmans shorthand 30 years ago, but never used it again after college.  I can't understand a single symbol 
It did get me interested again, and I started browsing Ebay for a Pitmans book.  I started thinking what a waste, after spending a year learning shorthand, and now I can't make head nor tail of it.  For years I could understand bits of it and remembered the sounds like 'sh', but it was mostly Dear Sir, Yours sincerely, accommodation, neccessarily.  I may take it up again, if only to try and solve your puzzle Ian

While I was at college, I also had a part-time job in Timothy Whites.  We used paper bags in those days when we sold products, and was often standing bored at the till.  I used to write little messages on the bags in shorthand.  When I served a customer, they would get one of these bags with their item.  Hopefully none of the customers understood shorthand

Rosemary

[little meg]

I started to learn Pitmans at high school, we spent a good half year on it, then we were told that it was no longer a suitable shorthand and the lessons stopped 
I was actually enjoying it and was good at it 

As Rosemary says, should be some old books out there.

Margaret

[mare]

It was my best subject too for 3 years though I didn't get to use it in my first job 40 years ago. I have an old Pitmans book I thought of digging out but I am happy to go with the theory it isn't English  Hope someone does decipher the gist of it though for you Ian...

  mare

[Andcarred]

Hi,

Can anyone make out the words written in longhand in the second last sentence.   This might help to decide if it is Ėnglish shorthand or another language.

Andcarred

[Deb D]

I think it's "(Something) Water Hotel, Mrs Robinson"