Newspaper piece
Category
Ephemera
Date
Unknown
Materials
Newspaper
Measurements
245 mm (Width); 333 mm (Length)
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Mr Straw's House, Nottinghamshire
NT 749525.1.1
Summary
The quarter of page 3 & 4 taken from a newspaper, possibly the Worksop Guardian due to the content and a part W on the top of page 6, kept inside a larger half piece pages 5 & 6. The first set in a stack of seven sets varying in shapes sizes and publications, from on top of the Copeland tureens (746487.7 & 746487.11) originally used to wrap and separate the pieces of dinner service. Page 3; 'BOOKSHOP BROWSING One of our failings is to spend too many valuable hours browsing among the dust and ancient leathery smells of old bookshops for an occasional seven- tenth or eighteenth century volume on some subject of particular interest. ....' 'CLERICS ON HORSEBACK The gaiters and aprons (really abbre- viated cassocks) of bishops and arch- deacons are relics of the days when most clerics were dependent on horse for transport, though many years ago a former rector of Carlton-in-Lindrick who is supposed to have had greater interest in horseflesh than in his flock wore the more comfortable riding habit of the age. .....' 'WARNING TO SOUVENIR HUNTERS People who have become possessed of "souvenirs" from crashed aero- planes, and those who may be tempted in the future to pick up trifles such as fragmants of bombs or cartridge cases, would do well to note what befell a man who was charged at the Bournemouth Police Court with the theft of odds and ends from aeroplane wreckage. ....' 'SAVOY LUXURY CINEMA, VICTORIA SQUARE, 'PHONE 2327. MATINEES: MONDAY, THURSDAY, SATURDAY, AT 2-15 P.M. Evenings Continuous from 5-15. ____________________________________________________ WEEK COMMENCING MONDAY, NOVEMBER 18th ____________________________________________________ MONDAY, TUESDAY, WEDNESDAY: JANE WITHERS RICHARD ARLEN JOE BROWN, JNR. ANDY DEVINE LLOYD CRRIGAN ANNE NAGEL in (U) in (U) HIGH Legion of SCHOOL Lost Flyers Meet the new Jane Withers in her A Thrilling. Up-to-the-Minute Merriest Picture yet. Aerial Picture. ____________________________________________________ THURSDAY, FRIDAY, SATURDAY: TYRONE POWER DOROTHY LAMOUR Edward Arnold Lloyd Nolan JOHNNY APOLLO A Picture tof Compelling Power-Friends hated him-Varsity Man-Banker's Son-now Gangster No. 1. You will Thrill to this Dynamic Film. AND GRAND SUPPORTING PROGRAMME OF HUMOUR == NEWS == INTEREST' Page 4; 'Personal PRISONERS OF WAR POST. KRIEGSGEFANGENENPOST. No. 7593811 PTE G. GODLEY, British Prisoner of War 10502, Stalag VIII B, Germany. Will friends please write? Prisoner's name and address also to be written inside letter. senders name and address on back of envelope. ....' 'Sits. Vacant-Domestic A GOOD Home for DOMESTIC HELP, used to business preferred; live in; references.-Goodall, Daybrook Square, Daybrook Notts. ________________________________ A GENERAL wanted, about 16 years, - Warrener, Holbeck Hall farm, near Worksop.' ________________________________ .............' ' "This Week's Bargains" G. M. COLE, CARLTON ROAD, WORKSOP, DEALER IN HIGH - CLASS SECOND=HAND NAD NEW FURNITURE, Carpets, Bedding, Cut Glass, Silver Plate. 'Phone 2135. Est. over 50 Years. Walnut Dining Table with Leaf, £5 10s. : 8 Heavy Oak Dining Chairs, upholstered in Red Morocco (suit board-room), 25s. each; Oak Knee-hole Desk, flat top, £7......'