Category Archives: 20th Century

A Voice from the Past

Posted on June 13, 2019 by Roger Pocock

Snippets 204. The following quote is from the May 1904 issue of Talking Machine News: Edward Lloyd, the famous tenor, though he retired from the concert platform in December, 1900, not through failure of voice, or through ill health, but because, … Continue reading →

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Midhurst Local Issues, 1908

Posted on June 6, 2019 by Roger Pocock

The following quote is taken from the Bognor Regis Observer, 16th September 1908, and features three small pieces of news relating to Midhurst: Workhouse Struck by Lightning. At the last meeting of the Midhurst Guardians it was reported that the … Continue reading →

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The Captain’s Table

Posted on June 3, 2019 by Roger Pocock

Guest Post 15.  Captain Ernest Hyatt was a seafarer, master mariner and adventurer who also served in what was then the Royal North-West Mounted Police and had roughed it in the tropic, temperate and arctic zones and fought in the … Continue reading →

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Technology in Schools?

Posted on May 30, 2019 by Roger Pocock

Snippets 203.  How much technology should be used in schools?  Is it ok for children to be using ipads, or accessing the internet, while at school?  That’s a modern debate, but the worries behind it might not be so modern … Continue reading →

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Dancing the Kickapoo

Posted on May 16, 2019 by Roger Pocock

Snippets 201.  Many readers of this blog will have probably heard of the “cake walk”, a dance that was popular during the late 19th and early 20th Centuries.  The dance originated on the slave plantations in America and was performed … Continue reading →

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The Early Cinema Queuing Nuisance

Posted on March 25, 2019 by Roger Pocock

Snippets 193.  Looking at old newspaper articles, one thing that is often quite striking is how much resistance can be found to an idea that we now consider commonplace, but was unusual at the time.  One such example comes from … Continue reading →

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Watch out for Lizards!

Posted on March 21, 2019 by Roger Pocock

Snippets 192.  In 1900 American writer Laura G Collins published a collection of letters from her various travels around Europe, titled By-gone Tourist Days: Letters of Travel.  Although many of them are relatively dry descriptions of tourist destinations, at times she … Continue reading →

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A pony, or some bricks for a church?

Posted on March 11, 2019 by Roger Pocock

Snippets 191.  The following quote is taken from Notes of a Nomad, by Canadian author Lady Harriet Julia Jephson, published just over a hundred years ago in 1918.  For the most part it is a journal of her travels, but it … Continue reading →

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Chocolate Records

Posted on March 4, 2019 by Roger Pocock

Snippets 190.  The early 20th Century was a time of great innovation in technology, but not all good ideas are born equal.  Sometimes just because you can make something, it doesn’t mean you should.  From one of innovation’s blind alleys, … Continue reading →

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Early Closing at 7pm? No thanks.

Posted on February 25, 2019 by Roger Pocock

There is much of interest to be found by trawling through the pages of old local newspapers.  On 7th October 1908, the Bognor Regis Observer carried a report about the popularity of the Women’s Suffrage movement in Midhurst, West Sussex: … Continue reading →

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