Shorthand expertise needed please

[lennonjohn]

Hi all,

Selby High School is appealing for help from our Selby Community. As many of you know, staff and students have invested a lot of time and research working on the community Legion Poppy Project.

We have kindly been lent a sketchbook by the granddaughter of William Charles Brown who had once lived in Ebor Street in Selby and was killed in February 1916. He was one of the soldiers involved in our community Legion Poppy Project.

This image is the only page in the sketchbook that is written in shorthand so we are desperate to try and decipher its meaning. So far we have worked out that it is a message involving landmarks and possible instructions of some kind, but we have yet to uncover the entire meaning.

Thanks in advance

LJ

[Rhododendron]

Years since I did shorthand, and this looks like a very odd form of shorthand to me.  Really hope someone can decipher it!

[BumbleB]

I agree.  I'm 100% sure that it is NOT Pitman.

[Rhododendron]

Just what I thought, BumbleB.

[BrazilianBombshell]

Wonder if it is  Taquigrafia Marti which I was taught 50+ years ago in Brazil.   Supposed to be useful for Portuguese and English.  Google appears to show the symbols.  Wish I could remember what I learned. 

[BumbleB]

I can't comment on the Brazilian equivalent. 

Definitely not Gregg's shorthand either.

The baffling bit is that the strokes are not joined up.  Shorthand systems that I know of would have many more joined up strokes.

[Erato]

Here's a list of shorthand systems. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_shorthand_systems

[lennonjohn]

Thanks to all for your thoughts, looks like the content will have to stay a mystery

LJ

[BumbleB]

Good luck    and sorry we couldn't help further.