NEWSPAPERFun with an old Newspaper
Posted by Caroline on December 02, 1997 at 13:14:10:
NEWSPAPER
The other day I was rooting around in a back corner of a school library when I came across a pile of "Jackdaws". Jackdaws are not books, they are a sort of large envelope containing replica historical documents on a particular subject, and were printed in the seventies and eighties as school teaching materials. I remember using the one on the Chartists when was I studying for "A" level, and also teaching about the Tudors and Stewarts using the one on The Mary Rose and one on Elizabeth R. Anyway, I found one called 'Peterloo and radical reform' which has a biography of Thomas Paine, cartoons by Gilray and others, political pamphlets and similar stuff. It also contained a replica copy of 'The Times' dated Thursday, August 19, 1819.
I found the newspaper a mine of interesting trivia. Firstly, it's very large (imperial size) and consists of only one sheet, folded in half so that there are four pages. Each page has five columns, and the whole thing is densely printed in very small type, less than 10 pt , I think. There are no pictures at all, apart from the newspaper's crest on the front page, less than 1 inch high. Headlines exist, but are hardly bigger, or bolder than the stories, in fact they are marked only by capitalisation or italics. The front page is all classified ads. The second is half letters to the editor, and half accounts of the doings of the various provincial assize courts and the last hours of a convicted criminal. Page three is multiple accounts of the events of Peterloo and two column inches of advertisements for the Theatre Royal and Astley's. Page four has one and one half columns devoted to a letter from Lord Plymouth and a recital of his dispute of a land claim, about half a column of War Office appointments for the day before, and three more columns of classified small-ads. The ads are not very well sorted: the "For Sale by Auction" section is clearly marked, but there are auction ads elsewhere. The "Situations Wanted" and "Situations Vacant" also spill out into the general muddle of other ads. Since many of these ads shed some light on the things we talk about on this page, I'll put some of them up. There are plenty more....... sales of books, fashions, ships to India and other places, charity appeals, horses and carriages for sale, educational establishments, you name it! If you want more, just ask.
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The BMD section is very brief indeed.
BIRTHS
On Tuesday, at Christ's Hospital, Mrs. Pitman , of a son.
On the 17th Instant, Mrs. George Davies, jun., Artillery -street, Bermondsey, a daughter.
On the 10th inst., at Charles Bigge's, Esq., Linden, Northumberland, the lady of Thomas Glyn, Esq., of a son.
MARRIED
On the 11th inst., at St. John's church, Southwark, Geo. Howes, Lieut. RN to Miss Sarah Woodger, daughter of Charles Woodger, Esq. Captain of the Royal Navy.
DIED
On the 12th inst., at Boulogne, leaving five small children, Ann, wife of Mr. Wm. Street.
ON the 9th of July, ult., at Madiera, Catherine, wife of Dr Gourlay, Physician of that Island, and daughter of the late Colonel Van Cortlandt, of the Manor of Cortlandt.
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CORN-EXCHANGE, WEDNESDAY AUGUST 18
We had but little English Wheat at market today, for which Mondays' prices were obtained ; but the trade was heavy in consequence of the continuance of fine weather, and an expected encrease of a supply of new wheat. Oats fully support Monday's prices. Fine Barley is more enquired after; but there is no demand for the inferior qualities. In Beans and Peas there is no alteration.
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A Valuable Freehold Estate, Walthamstow, within 6 miles of London, and early Possession.- Distinguished Residence, with Offices of every description, beautiful Pleasure-grounds, extensive walled Garden, Peach-house, Grapery, and Greenhouse; 60 acres of Meadow land, ornamented with stately timbers; 26 acres of Arable Land and capital Farm buildings - by Mr. ELLIS, at Garraways THIS DAY, August 19 (unless an acceptable offer is previously made by private contract)
A Valuable Freehold Estate, consisting of an elegant Residence, presenting a noble elevation, seated in a Park of 60 acres of excellent Meadow Land, finely timbered, the residence and property of Geo. Green Esq.: the house contains a noble suit of drawing and music rooms, uniformly decorated and finished with peculiar taste and elegance; capital lofty eating-room 30 feet by 26 feet, library ,breakfast -room, gentle-man's dressing-room, principal and secondary staircase, 2 patent water-closets, hot and cold bath rooms, complete domestic arrangements, detatched double carriage-house, stabling for 9 horses, with servant's sleeping rooms over ; beautiful pleasure-grounds, lawn , groves and a shady walk, extensive walled garden, abundantly stocked with the choicest fruit-trees in full bearing; large fish-pond, capital detached farming buildings, and convenient farm-yard, 60 acres of land in the Park, finely timbered, and 26 acres of arable land , the whole forming a residence suitable for a family of the first distinction; the premises are abundantly supplied with spring and soft water. The whole or any part of the Purchase - money may remain on mortgage. To be viewed with tickets only, which with particulars may be had by applying to Mr. Ellis, 36, Fenchurch-street: particulars may also be had at Garraway's and the Mart.( Sounds like something Mrs. Elton would approve of! Walthamstow is in the district of South Essex..... )
Kent- Boughton-mount Estate - by CARTER AND MORRIS, at the Auction-mart, on Friday, Aug 27 at 12
ALL that valuable and important Freehold Estate, called Boughton-mount, situated in a most picturesque and beautiful part of the parishes of Boughton, Monchelsea and Loose (SP? ) consisting of a mansion-house, and grounds, with a coach-house, stables, barns, oast-house, lodges, and every necessary outbuilding, 7 cottages, and about 212 acres of most valuable hop, orchard, meadow, arable, pasture and woodland, lying well together, in a very high state of cultivation, being one of the most valuable and productive parts of Kent, about 2 miles from Maidstone; the sale of this valuable estate offers a point of a purchase in point of situation and value of land rarely to be met with; the whole is land-tax redeemed, and possession will be given at Michaelmas next. The Estate may be viewed by application to Mr James Hart, Boughton,; and printed particulars, with engraved plans, and conditions of sale, may be had on application to GF Douce Esq., solicitor, 6, Sackville-street , Picadilly; at the Auction-mart; of James Selby Esq., solicitor, West Malling; or of the Auctioneers, Maidstone.( Nowadays it's Kent that is known as the Garden of England. )
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LOST on Tuesday, the 17th inst., a Red-Morocco CLASP-PURSE., containing three 1l notes, and 16and 6d in silver, supposed to be lost in crossing from Skinner-street to Newgate-street. Whoever will bring the same to Mr. Milner, 2, Sun-court, Cornhill, shall receive 1 l for their trouble: the notes are endorsed Dodd, Norfolk-street, the numbers and dates taken, and stopped at the Bank.
LOST , on the 14th inst., a Dark Mottled Liver-coloured POINTER BITCH; answers to the name of Juno; she has only one eye and is very old indeed. Whoever will bring her to Mr. Hanbury's , Whiteheart-lane, Tottenham, shall receive ONE GUINEA Reward.
( Plus ca change..... )
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AROMATIC SPIRIT OF VINEGAR- This agreeable perfumed liquor (the original invention of MR. HENRY ) is of well-known efficacy in relieving faintness and headache, and in counteracting the effects of overheated, close or infected air, continues to be prepared, in the greatest perfection, by Mssrs. Thomas and William Henry, Manufacturing Chymists, Manchester.It is sold in London, wholesale and retail, by Mssrs Bayley and Blew perfumers, Cockspur-street; and retail , price 2s.9d., by one or more agent in every principle town; but it cannot be genuine, unless the names of the above preparers are engraved on the Government stamp, which is fixed over the cork of each bottle.. Proper sponge-boxes are sold by Bayley and Blew, as usual. As above, may, also, be had, authenticated by a similar stamp, Henry's calcined Magnesia, in bottle at 2s.6d. ; or with glass stoppers at 4s.6d.( There's an ad for the cacined Magnesia too )
- I really enjoyed that, Caroline. Thanks! and a question... Carrie 12:17:29 12/05/97 (1)
- auctions Caroline 16:38:41 12/05/97 (0)
- That's wonderful, Caroline!! Thanks for posting it!! nfm Laura W 22:04:37 12/02/97 (0)
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