We
put the arrangements on place for the WW1 coffee morning in the church on Sat.
10th at 10:30 am. We meet to set up about 9:30 am. Cakes etc would
be most welcome, thank you. The funds raised will be on behalf of the Poppy
Appeal.
You are welcome to come over to the farm on Thursday
8th at 2:30pm to put our display on the boards.
Bob
told us about an Australia medal for the injured, when collecting medals, you must
be aware of the fakes put out for sell. The discussion moved to the fake art
and antique markets, some medals are sold with the wrong ribbons.
Hugh
continues with his work on the History of Plymouth Argyle, the memorabilia is
getting
memorable
pricy, this was followed by some football rivalry!! He is working on the social
history around the football league in the 1880s, the northern teams paid their
players, these were often factory teams, but not in the south, football was
much more dominate in the North. The Thames Ironworks supported the “Hammers”,
West Ham. The local church also was involved in some teams.
During
the war there were women’s teams from the shell factories, but in December 1921
the FA cited strong opinions about football's unsuitability for females. It
called on clubs belonging to the associations "to refuse the use of their
grounds for such matches". The ban changed the course of the women's game
forever.
Jackie
has loaned her families’ war medals to the school. The school is making a brilliant effort in
commemorating the WW1 100 years.
Sam
has War memories from his family, there is a sweet heart photo of a dead soldier,
name unknown, the lady remained single, lived in India and worked as a post mistress.
Val
mentioned Frank’s fathers war medals and asked how to preserve a war time
telegram
Geoff
advised that she persevere the telegram in acid proof paper.
Geoff
told us about archiving in the Record Office by tell us what’s not allowed in
the record office, pens, metal staples, metal treasury tags and Sellotape.
Paper is never folded but rolled and stored in linen bags.
He
is recording a collection of Theatre programs with staples left which will be
left in. The Theatre fire’s listing of an auction catalogue of contents. The
Savoy Cinema was in London Inn
square where Waterstones now stands in
Exeter. . In some cases the Sellotape can be removed and replaced with
preservation tape. The Touring Players
theatre programs were often just single sheets due to paper shortages of 1951.
Beware
old wax seals can explode!!! Jenny has some large velum parchments which could
be framed to preserve them, the wax seals could be placed in a container.
Geoff
met Jo Davey, she is nee Broadhurst and is related to Geoff. Nice coincidence.
Alan
found some notes on the Clapperentale Mill in the current Tale Valley Trust
Newsletter, there are some ideas of getting it back to working order. It was
worked from a leat taking water from the River Tale. The article notes is was a
powerful mill, used for farm tasks, animal feed etc and a sawmill.
Brenda
mentioned that the railways enable the followers offootball to travel futher to matches. In 1895 Bolton Wanders
on a Monday drew huge 8,000 crowd.
In
1908 played Exeter v Plymouth for the first time.
Jenny
Elizabeth Thoroughgood, a keen costume historian, has given her some costumes
to stage some living history Tudor times talks for a display at the 2019 Fun
Day, along with some Bunting. Jenny and George went to a talk hosted by Todd
Gray with Professor Mark Stoyle about the history of the underground passages
and life in Exeter in Medieval times.
David
mentioned that his son Charles cleared a house. The solicitor arrived with a Tesco’s
bag, and in the bag was hand grenade, this was shut it in safe, and the
authorities were called, many Blue lights, along with the bomb squad, TV camera
crews all turned up to Southernhay. The bomb expert checked the bag and
declared the grenade to be safe as it had be used!!
Thank
you all for a meeting full of interest and poignant memories of the war.
We
next meet in the Nog Inn on Thursday 6th December at 8 pm.
