The Diary of Nathaniel Bryceson (Part 9 - Final)

[Ruskie]

I've just be notified that The Diary, part 8 Has been moved back to the Common Room......

Thanks Belin-Bob!!! 

Thanks for letting us know Deb. And THANK YOU Berlin Bob! It's really good of you to do that and it's very much appreciated!

Mongibello, I think we anticipate that Nat will be going out with a whimper which is quite deflating but I'm sure if could see into the future and knew how many people were hanging on his every word, then he'd have made a huge effort for us (and erase all the sections he wrote in shorthand    )

[Mongibello, from Saturday PM (your Saturday AM  I will be away till after Christmas but please send me an email or PM if you need any help extracting the useful bits from our discussions). We already have a couple of timeline/summaries, which I can't remember if I have already sent you or not. Let me know if you'd like them.  ]

[Mongibello]

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.

[Ruskie]

Thanks for the tip Mongibello and I'll definitely check the WA website.

[Siamese Girl]

I'm not having much luck with today's entry. The first part about the death of Mr Brice McGregor sounds as if it has been lifted straight from a newspaper obituary and the Filkins' first born has eluded me completely.

Snow came to London much earlier in 2010 than it did in 1846!

Carole

[drykid]

Bozier's Court looks like a fascinating street that I hadn't heard of previously.  There's a whole page of info here, including this photo:



Bozier's Court is the side street on the left formed by the block of buildings in the middle of Tottenham Court Road.

If you compare it with the same view more recently:



You can see that the demolition of the central block has completely wiped out Bozier's Court altogether.  Although the building on the left of the photo on the corner of Oxford St / Tottenham Court Road seems to have survived more or less unchanged. Since the second photo was taken the Horseshoe Hotel on the right of both pics has since sadly been knocked down and replaced by something utterly nondescript.

[deb usa]

Great Photos Drykid....

The article describes it as "ugly" ... I don't think so at all.

Also ...the building "is on the confines of no less than three parishes - St. Marylebone, St. Pancras, and St. Giles-in-the-Fields" .... Maybe that was it's purpose...to be the "marker" for the beginning of each Parish.

I wonder if it was the first building built and the others were built around it?

Quite fascinating ... I love old buildings!

deb

[deb usa]

Hi Carole

There is a George Filkins baptised March 1st 1840 (born 11 Feb) son of WILLIAM and Eliza, 11 Water street, Father WILLIAM = COAL PORTER

can't see any deaths for Dec q 1846 

deb

[juliew]

Death - 1846 - Oct/Nov/Dec - Westminster St Margaret.

Brice McGregor

[dee-jay]

What a cliff-hanger!  Typical for a clerk:  'Carried forward'!