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Same town, different bus, looks prosperous

Poster at left seems to be for a Tit Bits issue (no laughing at the back!) How King George Saved (my) Life

King George means 1910 onwards.

A few minutes before ('Enterprise' is stopped in a queue}. Sadly I cannot read the clock in either - catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000322755

IJ 401 is registered to Thomas Heston & co. In the 1914 motorist thingy.

In 1914, the IJs go to 1000, so 400 is at least 1907.

On the Spectator window, if the AND is centred, there are 5 letters before -----AMPER

Niall McAuley And I think the AND is indeed centred. I got exhausted after camper, decamper, clamper, glamper. None of which would be good money spinners back around 1907.

No help with Lawrence 1914 latest date, but the Medical Hall middle distance was replaced by an Ulster Bank in 1920 - www.geograph.ie/photo/3888719#

Nearly everything has been rebuilt, except the courthouse which has lost its cupola; or is it a belvedere?
Bangorview - maps.app.goo.gl/hTW7UjDyCtPMiBSk7

beachcomber australia Don't believe that after all these years, you can't tell the difference between a cupola and a belvedere!

I see a black dog.

Census no help on AMPER, Photographer and... is usually Retoucher

Well done Danny, I missed that one while trying to solve the amper anagram

National Library of Ireland on The Commons Just testing to see if anyone is awake/alive !

How about REVAMPER ? www.wordunscrambler.net/words/ends-with-amper

Foxglove It's a headscratcher, isn't it?

National Library of Ireland on The Commons beachcomber australia Foxglove it might not be Photographer could be Lithographer? Spectator Office is probably a newspaper?

DannyM8 I sit corrected. You may well be right. I was so focused on the ...AMPER, I assumed Photographer. I will amend in the description above, thanks.

PRINTER AND BINDER ?? Or even BOOKBINDER ?
catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000040705

Edit - As you were; that's an earlier photo.

beachcomber australia I have been having a nagging notion about [some sort of]STAMPER? Making rubber stamps used to be allied to printing.

Could be 2 words, like BOOK LAMPER (not a thing)

I found a dictionary of old occupations page which says KEY STAMPER used to be a thing.

Niall McAuley Hmm, KEY STAMPER might be a runner, or at least a walker...

The County Down Spectator and Ulster Standard regularly advertised the services available at the Spectator Office in Bangor (and Newtonards). This was in the form of a list (which has lost the formatting of the original advert as it appeared) , which took up a whole column. I can't see anything obvious, but here is the list from Friday 23 February 1906:

PRINTING. PRINTING of every description in BLACK AND COLORED INKS Any Variety of Style, Ornamentai and Plain Executed with rapidity, accuracy, and punctuality, and at Moderate Prices. THE GENERAL PRINTING WORKS, THE “Spectator” Office PLACARDS. POSTERS, WINDOW BILLS, AND HANDBILLS OF EVERY SIZE, IN EVERY COLOR AND AT MODERATE PRICES. COMMERCIAL PRINTING Headings, Catalogues, Memorandun Trade Circulars, Lists of Goods, Account Forms, Invoices, Returns and Statements, Cards, Tickets, and Labels, Handbills, Circulars, Billheads, Delivery Books, é&c. BOOK PRINTING IN ALL STYLES REPORTS, PAMPHLETS AND CATALOGUES, SERMONS AND LECTURES, ESSAYS, POEMS. &C. LEGAL PRINTING OF ALL KINDS. INDENTURES, SCHEDULES, DEEDS, NOTICES, 4TS AND CATALOGUES, SERMONS AND LECTURES, ESSAYS, POEMS. &C. LEGAL PRINTING OF ALL KINDS. INDENTURES, SCHEDULES, DEEDS, NOTICES, 4&C. COUNTRY ORDERS. receive Prompt Attention. Orders sent in from the Country will receive Prompt Attention. &C. COUNTRY ORDERS. l PROGRAMMES, BOOKS OF WORDS, CARDS OF ADMISSION TO CONCERTS, LECTURES, AND PUBLIC AND PRIVATE ENTERTAINMENTS. THE “SPECTATOR” OFFICE, BANGOR. > Possesses a Large and Assorted Supply of Type, the Proprietor being therefore enabled to give the Public guarantee a’ every satisfaction to all Orders receiver

John Spooner Well, that'd drive you demented! They list everything bar the kitchen sink, but not a whiff of any ...AMPERing.

The Spectator's first edition was Friday 3rd June 1904, and its last was in 1915. The advert was soon shortened to the last bit about the Large and Assorted Supply of Type, so no clues there.

1910-1914, rather than 1907

Niall McAuley Amended.

County Down Spectator and Ulster Standard - Friday 15 July 1910

The Mr Morrow mentioned is likely Matthew Morrow, County Down Spectator and Ulster Standard - Friday 29 April 1910 in a report of an election meeting at Donaghadee:

Mr Matthew Morrow kindly conveyed a large party from Bangor in his fine new passenger motor.

On Friday 28 April 1911 it was reported that "Mr Matthew Morrow has already his two motor cars doing daily service to Donaghadee, and he will have a third on the road within a fortnight." (new motor confirmed in July)

And on 16th May 1913

New Bangor Motor
On Saturday the new motor char-a-banc, built by Messrs Hugh Burrows and Son. Newtownards, to the order of Mr Matthew Morrow, Bangor, will start running. From what we have seen of the machine, it is a credit to all concerned, and says much the workmanship of the local engineers by whom It has been built. Mr Morrow's enterprise is certainly very creditable, and as he believes in supporting local industry It Is a pity that more reciprocity In this direction is not extended to him by our local councils/

By the 1930s, Mr Matthew Morrow of Bangor was a director of the Belfast Omnibus Company. ( North Down Herald and County Down Independent - Saturday 08 December 1934 )

If the building numbers are the same, this is the "motor Garage" seen in the distance (County Down Spectator and Ulster Standard - Friday 03 May 1912)

Matthew Morrow opened a motor garage in 1910, but that was in Holborn Avenue.

John Spooner Were there also electric cars then?

Pollocks Jewellers are in the 1912 Lennon Wylie

www.lennonwylie.co.uk/PT1912.htm

National Library of Ireland on The Commons No Pollock Jewellers, Main St., in the 1910 Lennon Wylie.
So 1911 onwards?
www.libraryireland.com/UlsterDirectory1910/Bangor-4.php

Suck Diesel Thank you, Mr Diesel. Happy to change the date to 1911-1914.

Suck Diesel The wikipedia page on automotive batteries says

Early cars did not have batteries, as their electrical systems were limited. Electric power for the ignition was provided by a magneto, the engine was started with a crank, headlights were gas-powered and a bell or bulb-horn was used instead of an electric horn. Car batteries became widely used around 1920 as cars became equipped with electric starter motors.

However, a 1911 advert for the Bangor Motor & Electrical Works says that one of their services is "accumulators charged", and as I understand it accumulator is another term for a lead-acid battery.
Perhaps the accumulators were used just for powering lamps, and had to be charged periodically.

There are no doubt many people who, unlike me, know what they are talking about in these matters.

John Spooner The very earliest cars in the US were a mix of petrol and battery powered, but not in Ireland that I know off.
More likely the “accumulators” referred to the rechargeable battery commonly used then to power the wireless.
This being the days before mains radios were available.

Mr Matthew Morrow seems to have chosen uplifting names for his fleet of charabancs; 'Enterprise', 'Reliance', and ?Wing??. Can't quite read the middle one (here we go again!). Possibly Mr Morrow standing on the right, looking proprietorial, as if he commissioned Mr French / Lawrence to take a series of publicity photos - catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000322755

Thanks everyone for trying to solve the ...AMPER puzzle today. I'm not giving up yet. As beachcomber australia always says: "Someone will know".

beachcomber australia I think the middle bus is Invincible

Niall McAuley Good call !

If they are the three Morrow 'motors', that would put the photos after 16 May 1913 (via John Spooner's "New Bangor Motor" find above).

beachcomber australia Probably more than anybody wants to know, but here’s a history of the early days of Bangor buses.
No mention of “wings”, alas
Mr. Morrow’s Enterprise service started in 1909.

“The first road service from Bangor was started in 1906 by Arthur Stringer and was a summer only service to Donaghadee, and in 1909 a similar service was operated by Matthew Morrow with a solid-tyre charabanc. The normal fare was 1/d., but during the 1914-18 War competition was so intense that at one time it was reduced at 2d.
On the 6th of June, 1924, Mr. Morrow's "Enterprise Bus Company" started a service to Belfast, still with solid-tyred charabancs. At the outset there were four runs a day - three by Clandeboye and one via Crawfordsburn - and the return fare was 1/6d. compared with the third class railway fare of 2/4d., and in March, 1925, the "Bangor Queen Company" started a rival service.
In the summer of 1925 the "Enterprise" Company introduced the first solid-tyred bus, and it was not until 1926 that pneumatic tyres were used.
In 1926, to encourage further traffic, the return fare to Belfast was reduced to 1/-d., when the outward journey was made before 10.0 a.m.
About the same time the "Enterprise" Company withdrew its service to Donaghadee so as to concentrate all its vehicles on the Belfast Road.
Services between Bangor and Newtownards were also started in the early 1920s, the "Ards Transport Company" running via Conlig, and Coey's service running via Six-Road-Ends,
This latter service was later taken over by John O'Neill of the "Tonic Company."
Still another company operating from Bangor was the "Pioneer Company" run by Jacob O'Neill.
In 1927 the "Belfast Omnibus Company" took over the Enterprise, Bangor Queen and Ards Transport Companies, while in 1935 it, in its turn, was taken over by the Northern Ireland Road Transport Board”

lennonwylie.co.uk/BangorC5.htm#Coach

beachcomber australia Looks like ‘Invincible’
Not mentioned in that bus history

Lithographer and Damper. It is a process.

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John Spooner 👍

Very interesting and useful comments on the photo! 👍👋
Greetings 😊

CASSIDY PHOTOGRAPHY This is very helpful, thank you! As the lettering in the window appears to be centred, and you know about this process, could there be another very short word before Damper?

VladimirovaS Hello there.

Just researching lithography, the reference also informed on a "damper" process . . . but the word could also be stamper.

There would not be many words containing "amper". Most do not make sense, when combined with lithography. So, damper or stamper would serve. I cannot find 5 letters preceding"amper".

www.flickr.com/photos/gnmcauley/
en.wikwik.org/m/a/5/wordswithamper.htm
www.flickr.com/photos/adambangor/2811888712
www.geograph.ie/photo/717181
www.findmypast.co.uk/newspapers/northern-ireland/county-d...
"Earliest issue: June 3, 1904"
www.irishnews.com/notices/livesremembered/2019/01/26/news...

Well, that's the limit of my research. Ask the current owner of the "Spectator". Surely, they would know their own history and may even have photos.
www.medialive.ie/index.php?option=com_sobipro&pid=338...
countydownspectator.co.uk/

I think the back of the cart says, "GEORGE REED, Newton Abbot."
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newton_Abbot
"Newton Abbot is a market town and civil parish on the River Teign in the Teignbridge District of Devon, England. "

I don't think this is London. I don't see that cart traveling the 200 miles from Newton Abbot to London in the age of steam trains.

Devon Live suggests that the woman speaking is local Suffragist Edith Splatt campaigning in Newton Abbot in 1908. This photo actually appears on the Edith Splatt wikipedia page but the speaker is identified as Mary Gawthorpe which seems more likely. The lady with the hat is identified as Nellie Martel

My aunty had oil lamps in her home in Cornwall during the 1960s. Nice picture.

Delighted with the success of their attempts at stuffing the Turkeys for Christmas, Mary and Edith decided to expand their skills.

'I hope to God that this string is strong enough!'

‘The Great Barn Robbery’

Edith, will you not get rid of that drab and unbecoming hat. It makes you look quite eccentric.

Lady on right: "Here's one we made earlier. Now we're going to show how you too can make a stuffed toy. All you need is some feathers and fur . . ."

I said I was ‘partial to animals’, Edith - not ‘a party animal’!

that face you make when you remember what they say about working with animals...

The smile that tells you, "All is well in hand ".

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I know what happened next.

I'm not sure when this pic was taken...possibly during the demolitions that took place in ca. 1908 for the widening of George St North...if you zoom in on the original, at the top of the stairs you can see the 'Sailors Welcome' signage painted on the wall of the Ocean Wave Hotel...this doesn't appear in the pics taken in [1901], so it's later than then...the Ocean Wave Hotel was evidently demolished in 1908, so that's a latest date...

Also see the comments and links at these pics

i checked the poster re subdivision sale in Manly which was in 1906 so am presuming around that date.

geoff.barker285 Good! I didn't see it!

10 June 1947 was a Pouffeday ...

beachcomber australia Sounds legit. Amended above, thank you.

Here is a Nicholas Sheehan of Dunmore getting married in 1935 to a Mary Brigid Power of Corbally More.

brother? William a witness
civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/images/marri...

Niall McAuley I bet that's him. Married Mary Brigid Power on 11 June 1935. Was this photo a sort of anniversary celebration? Almost 12 years to the day?

Here is a Nicholas with brother William in the 1911 census, Leperstown:

www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1911/Waterford/Kille...

Too late for birth records for the children, 100 year rule.

Niall McAuley Both Nicholas and his brother William aged 2. Twins or "Irish Twins", do you think?

A Nicholas Sheehan was a member of Dunmore East Parish Council (report of meeting in Waterford Standard - Saturday 2 August 1941)

Wow! ...
www.legacy.com/ca/obituaries/theglobeandmail/name/mary-el...

It is with profound sadness that the family of Mary Ellickson announces her passing from this world on Monday, February 26, 2024. Mary was born in Leperstown, Dunmore East, County Waterford, Ireland, on October 14, 1936, and was the eldest of six children of the late Nicholas and Bridget (Lil) Sheehan. Mary was raised in the Catholic faith, and she remained devoted to those beliefs throughout her life. Mary was a true example of a person whose life was shaped by her Christian beliefs. Mary immigrated to Canada in 1957, joining her soon to be husband, Peter Ellickson. ... ...

ɹǝqɯoɔɥɔɐǝq Wow indeed, and hello Mary! 10 years after this photo was taken, Mary was off to Canada...

Another site has these two photos of Mary -


From - www.kearneyfs.com/obituaries/mary-catherine-ellickson

I want to know more about Leperstown

Political ambitions beyond the Parish Council
Waterford Standard - Saturday 18 October 1947

Fine Gael, the chief opposition party in the Dail, in selecting Mr. Nicholas Sheehan, farmer, Leperstown. Dunmore East, as their candidate, have made a wise and popular choice. He is a man of fine character who will work in the' national interest faithfully and constructively. In the city and county he is receiving the support of all who wish to rid the country of the present political sham. A monster meeting will be held at Broad Street, Waterford, to-night in support of his candidature.

Alas, after coming 2nd to John Ormonde (Fianna Fail)

Mr. Nicholas Sheehan said that he prided himself the fact that they had put up a goad fight, and he believed they would do better in the near future.

(Waterford Standard - Saturday 01 November 1947

Yikes!

"The Leaving of Leperstown"
The Story of the Sheehans of Leperstown, Dunmore East, Co. Waterford
By Catherine Floe · 2005

www.google.com.au/books/edition/The_Leaving_of_Leperstown...

Michaelkelly Kelly - Here you are ... www.waterfordtreasures.com/the-leper-hospital-and-church-...

... According to tradition, the leper hospital was founded in 1185 by Robert le Poer [Power] who endowed it with almost 800 acres of land for its upkeep. King John granted a further 900 acres to the leper hospital when he visited Waterford in 1210 on condition that the lepers prayed daily for him. Most of this land was located near Dunmore East and in an area still known as Leperstown to this day. King John’s grant also included the land stretching from John’s Bridge through Johnstown and John’s Hill to Ballytruckle. All that remains of the leper hospital on the site now is a two-storey house with a limestone fireplace bearing the date 1632. ...

The current Morning Mary is setting a very high standard of alliteration today!
Throwing down the gauntlet for those who might replace her

National Library of Ireland on The Commons Nicholas and William were regular twins, both born on 14th September 1908, William the elder by 20 minutes.

beachcomber australia From that first obit: settled for the rest of their lives in Vancouver joining our Aunt Catherine (Kate) and were soon to be joined by the rest of the Sheehan clan.

So more of the family may have emigrated.

In September 1933 Nicholas Sheehan of Leperstown and eight other farmers (including John Sheehan of Dunmore East) were arrested and charged "that being members of an unlawful association, they did promote, encourage, and advocate the non-payment of local taxation". There was a second charge , "that they conspired with others to compel persons to join the Farmers' and Ratepayers' League , and did also compel those persons to sign a document which said that the League adhered to its resolution , stating that owing to the economic war with Great Britain farmers in the Irish Free State were deprived of their means of livelihood and consequently were unable to meet their liabilities".

After 3 weeks (or 4 weeks depending on who you believe) in Mountjoy prison, the were tried by a military tribunal at Collins barracks. The hearing lasted several days, from 5th October to 10th October 1933, on which day all nine farmers were acquitted of all charges. There was debate on the final day as to whether remarks by Mr de Valera had prejudiced the trial.

The hearing was reported widely.

Lil's death was reported in the Irish Independent on 3rd December 1993

SHEEHAN - Lil - Dec. 1. 1993 in Vancouver Hospital. late of Leperstown. Dunmore East: deeply regretted by her sister. brother-in-law. nieces. nephews and ail her relatives and friends.

Michaelkelly Kelly
Leperstown is in the Electoral Division of Killea, in Civil Parish of Killea, in the Barony of Gaultiere, in the County of Waterford

The land was once gifted and belonged to the Leper Hospital in Waterford City as a source of income. Some of the land was once comanage.
The barony was established in 1672 post Cromwell. The name Gaul Tier means Land of the Foreigners, specifically the Vikings who were ousted from Waterford City with the Norman Invasion of 1171, King Henry 11. Ballygunner and Ballytruckle are place names of the Vikings Gunnar and Truckle, both would have been outside the city walls and were in Gaultier.

Liam Cheasty Thanks! Super interesting.

beachcomber australia Thanks!

several so young that schooling was basic and an an apprenticeship was gold.. several early teens in the rows

It's the lid of an 8th century box

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soisc%C3%A9l_Molaisse

O Mac "... carrying case for a holy book." So not to far off with my ornate book cover guesstimate.

Flickr is sometimes amazing! In 2018 via Marten Kuilman

beachcomber australia Glorious in colour. So the book itself is no more.

And another one

Suck Diesel Thank you.

Irish Times - Friday 06 May 1898 reports on the some newly carved oak work in the chancel of Clonmel Clonfert Cathedral. The new bishop's throne comes in for high praise, and on it "the emblems of the four evangelists are taken from the Soiscel Molaise" (on the advice of scholar Miss Margaret Stokes).

Could it be that the photograph was taken in order that the woodcarvers could make accurate copies?

John Spooner Absolutely lovely to think so! A little more evidence is needed though...

National Library of Ireland on The Commons Since the neighbouring Mason images in the catalogue seem to be an unrelated (but possibly exhaustive) assortment of religious artefacts, I think it's unlikely.

Pop in next door to see the real thing, where it is catalogued as NMI R4006


“The book was lost sometime in the late 18th century, and almost nothing of its content or style was recorded”

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soisc%C3%A9l_Molaisse

Here's the bishop's throne from Clonfert Cathedral, with the c. 1898 carvings of the evangelists based on the Soiscel Molaise figures, surrounding local hero St Brendan.

roaringwaterjournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/bishop...

The Basic Bibliophile's Limerick

It's not very hard to discover
When repeated by every book lover,
And the wise old powers
Of Library Towers
Say, "Don't judge a book by its cover!"

beachcomber australia Delira and excira with our first Limerick by beachcomber of 2025! Here's to many more...
(though less of the "old", if you please)

Read about the history of this estate – Lough Rynn – and the Clements family, including Lord Leitrim at mohill.com or www.loughrynn.net. Also more history of Mohill and Leitrim!

Mohill History Thank you very much!

See description for a group of Bain prints (not digitized)
- www.loc.gov/item/2005675310/
which includes " interior of William Reifschneider's "balloon shop" at Streator, Illinois"

From thefirstairraces.net/stuff/breguet/pre1914index.html
"William Reifschneider (or Reiferscheid?) "Eagle" airship (USA, 1903-1904)
A contrivance consisting of two major parts, a cigar-shaped balloon, to which was attached a frame, on which were six propellers. Four propellers were used for ascending and two for steering. The power was supplied by a gasoline engine. The Streator, Illinois inventor declared that his ship could be driven from Chicago to New York at the rate of 100 miles an hour, and that it could be sailed around a tower with its side touching the structure at all times. It was planned to construct the machine at an expense of $ 10,000. "
Pictures at thefirstairraces.net/stuff/breguet/images/720bis.jpg and thefirstairraces.net/stuff/breguet/images/720bisa.jpg

Thanks swanq, we'll update the catalog record.

I did want to point out that the collection you linked to has photos from the Bain collection. In many cases they are duplicates of the negatives, but occasionally there are some that we don't have negatives of. They are also helpful sometimes when the negative is damaged, sometimes the photo is still in good shape.

"The picture is on the wire" - I always wondered where this expression came from. Here it is!
amazing picture.

See blog post about the development of the technology that led to the Associated Press as a service to transmit photographs for use in newspapers.
- www.hatiandskoll.com/2013/05/23/edouard-belin-the-belinog...

See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Édouard_Belin

Current Literature, Volume XLIV [44], No. 4, April 1908
- books.google.com/books?id=bpLPAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA436
Has a piece, titled "PICTURE TELEGRAPHY ON AN ENTIRELY NOVEL PRINCIPLE" about Belin and his equipment. The equipment pictured could be the same as in the Bain photo.

I think this probably indicates that the Bain photo of the equipment dates from early 1908, at the same time as the photos of the New York to Paris race, which is featured in the same issue of the magazine at www.google.com/books/edition/Current_Literature/bpLPAAAAM...

Note:
For info on the magazine, see
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Current_Literature
For HathiTrust volumes from the magazine, see
- catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/004233675

Thanks swanq. We'll update the catalog record. I was able to find a different but similar photo published in the Cincinnati Enquirer on Jan. 6, 1908 and several other papers and journals mentioned his invention around that time.

The meeting was to be at Essex Hall, Essex St. Strand on Monday Nov 25, which means that this photo is from Nov 25, 1907 or a few days earlier.

Speakers to be:
1. Mrs. Despard -- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlotte_Despard
"Charlotte Despard (née French; 15 June 1844 – 10 November 1939) was an Anglo-Irish suffragist, socialist, pacifist, Sinn Féin activist, and novelist. ... Despard was imprisoned four times for her suffragette activism, and she continued campaigning for women's rights, poverty relief and world peace into her 90s.
Also www.suffrageresources.org.uk/database/1783/mrs-charlotte-...
"Her father was a naval captain. Her mother was committed to a 'lunatic asylum'. She married a wealthy radical Liberal, Maximilian Despard, in 1870. He died in 1890. Her sister Katherine Harley was an NUWSS member."

2. Miss Irene Miller -- www.suffrageresources.org.uk/database/2232/miss-irene-fen... "Daughter of suffragist Florence Fenwick Miller. ... In October 1906, she was arrested and imprisoned for her part in a demonstration in the lobby of the House of Commons. In September the following year, she was one of those WSPU members who disagreed with Emmeline Pankhurst's resolution to make the WSPU, in effect, 'undemocratic' by forcing through her will on how the party would be run. Irene was therefore among the group of women who split to form the Women's Freedom League (WFL)."

3. Mrs. Edith How-Martyn -- www.suffrageresources.org.uk/database/2019/mrs-edith-how-...
"Edith was an early member of the WSPU, and in 1906 was jointly appointed, with Charlotte Despard, as honorary secretary of the WSPU. She gave up her job as a mathematics lecturer to devote herself to the cause. She was arrested in 1906 in a scuffle with police in the lobby of the House of Commons, and served one month of a two-month sentence. Together with Charlotte Despard, she broke away from the WSPU in 1907 to form the Women's Freedom League (WFL). She had come to believe that violent militancy would not win women the vote, but that law-breaking in the form of passive resistance would better win over politicians and members of the public. Edith was thence honorary secretary of the WFL from 1907 until 1911"

4. Miss Alison Roberta Noble Neilans -- www.suffrageresources.org.uk/database/2271/miss-alison-ro...
"Alison was an organiser for the Women's Freedom League (WFL) and was a member of its executive committee by 1910. She was arrested and imprisoned a couple of times in 1908 and again in 1909, and sentenced to an average of one month in prison."
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alison_Neilans
"Alison Roberta Noble Neilans (19 June 1884 – 17 July 1942) was an English suffragette. Neilans was a member of the executive committee of the Women's Freedom League, a member of the Church League for Women's Suffrage and the East London Federation of Suffragettes, where she worked with Sylvia Pankhurst. She was also a member of the board of the International Woman Suffrage Alliance.

See Despard and Neilans in this photo from the London School of Economics Library (LSE Library)

Essex Hall is in a photo by www.flickr.com/photos/ak-74/ that has a description of its history.

Fréjus

According to en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Kendall_Thaw
"Harry Kendall Thaw (February 12, 1871 – February 22, 1947) was the son of American coal and railroad baron William Thaw Sr. Heir to a multimillion-dollar fortune, he is most notable for murdering the renowned architect Stanford White in front of hundreds of witnesses at the rooftop theatre of New York City's Madison Square Garden on June 25, 1906. ... Thaw was tried twice for the murder of White. Due to the unusual amount of publicity the case had received, it was ordered that the jury members be sequestered. The trial proceedings began on January 23, 1907, and the jury went into deliberation on April 11. After forty-seven hours, the twelve jurors emerged deadlocked. Seven had voted guilty, and five voted not guilty. ... The second trial took place from January 1908 through February 1, 1908. ... At the second trial, Thaw pleaded temporary insanity."

An example of coverage of the second trial on Page 1 of many newspapers, see Quad-City Times [Davenport, Iowa] Jan 17 1908. P. 1, top right
- www.newspapers.com/article/quad-city-times-evelyn-thaw-to...

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